Vincent Arthur Smith
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Vincent Arthur Smith
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Vincent Arthur Smith was an Irish Indologist, historian, member of the Indian Civil Service, and curator. He was one of the prominent figures in Indian historiography during the British Raj. In the 1890s, he was key to exposing the forgeries of Alois Anton Führer, then working for the Archaeological Survey of India, who Smith caught in the act of making fake inscriptions.
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Irish historian, art historian and indologist (1843–1920)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Arthur_Smith
date created:
2008-12-28T08:42:36Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T15:55:55Z
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