Walter Ruben (26 December 1899 – 7 November 1982) was a German

Indologist Indology, also known as South Asian studies, is the academic study of the history and cultures, languages, and literature of the Indian subcontinent, and as such is a subset of Asian studies. The term ''Indology'' (in German, ''Indologie'') is o ...

. His main contribution was on the social history of ancient

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and on the history of

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and

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Walter Ruben's Writings

''Books''

*1928 ''Die Nyayasutra’s''

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. *1936 ''Studien zur Textgeschichte des Ramayana''.

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*1939 ''Eisenschmiede und Dämonen…''.

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*1952 ''Über die Literatur der vorarischen Stämme Indiens''.

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*1959 ''Das Pancatantra und seine Morallehre''. Berlin *1967-73 ''Die Gesellschaftliche Entwicklung im alten Indien, vols. 1–6''. Berlin

References

1899 births 1982 deaths German Indologists German male non-fiction writers Members of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin {{Germany-historian-stub