John Muir (indologist)
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John Mui, born 1810, Glasgow, Scotland, died, 1882, Edinburgh, Scotland, was a Scottish sanskritist.
He arrived in India in 1828 as a civil servant in Bengal, and after finally rising to the position of judge in Fatehpur, left the Indian Civil Service in 1853 and returned to the United Kingdom.
In India Muir wrote in English, Sanskrit and other Indian languages on a variety of topics, but especially on Christianity, for example A sketch of the argument for Christianity against Hinduism in sanskrit verse (Calcutta 1839), Mata-pariksa or examination of religions (2 parts, 1852-1854, Sanskrit poetry with English language translation).
Muir had great support, especially financial, from his previous work for a professor of Sanskrit at the University of Edinburgh. Muir's main work is Original sanskrit texts on the origin and history of the people of India, their religion and institutions (1852-1870), a study of the most important source texts of Indian cultural and religious history, with English language translation. An example of the texts is Religions and moral sentiments, metrically rendered from sanskrit writers (1875).
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