William Jones learning from Indias, but ?

I respectfully thank your very much for your comments, however, I do not know from where from you are hailing (your member profile too mentions nothing about you).

Historically, Indians have been oppressed and suppressed people on the earth. Their history has been meddled with by the non-Indians. If you want I can give specific details. So how Indians could have "bias, prejudice..." against "westerners". I just thought of being in the position of "westerners", but I could not conceive anything.

See the difference of Jones learning obediently from the Indians during 18th century and depiction of it in different manner in the sculpture now (within 100 or 200 years?).

Kindly give details when and how Jones "had friendly dialogu with the gurus" as suggested by you?

You assert,"Forming a digest implies gathering data and arranging it in a structured way for the readers, and in no way teaching the respective subject to the persons that the information is gathered from".

It took me nearly two years to locate the carving in Oxford, which I had to personally visit to see and then to go through a bureaucratic quagmire to get the following picture of it.

The picture symbolizes how academic Indians today often remain under the glass ceiling as �native informants� of the Westerners. Yet in 19th century Europe, Sanskrit was held in great awe and respect, even while the natives of India were held in contempt or at best in a patronizing manner as children to be raised into their master's advanced �civilization.�

In 1794 the first chair of Sanskrit in Europe was established in Copenhagen. In 1808, Schlegel's university had replaced Hebrew and Arabic with Sanskrit. Sanskrit was introduced into every major European university between 1800 and 1850 and overshadowed other classical languages which were often downsized to make way for Sanskrit positions. This frenzy may be compared with today's spread of computer science in higher education. The focus on Sanskrit replaced the earlier focus on Arabic/Persian as the source of intellectual thought.

I think we are arguing about semantics here: this is the defintion of digest from the ENcarta online dictionary:

http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861672424/digest.html

noun  (plural di�gests)
 
Definition:
 
1. summary: a shortened version of a work that contains the most important or interesting information from the original version

 
2. collection of abridged pieces: a magazine, book, or broadcast that contains shortened versions of articles or stories originally from different sources

 
3. law collection of legal opinions: a systematic compilation of laws or legal opinions

As you can see, a digest is considered to be a  summary, a collection of legal opinsions. Whether it is exhaustive is not the point. In fact one of the defintions of digest implies that it is simply a summary. Jones took down what he thought was the fundamentals of Hindu and muslim law, creating a summary not an encyclopedia of it.
 

Just like T. B. Macaulay's "minutes", Henry Maine declared that India was empty of laws before the British came:

James Rennel is credited with surveying and preparation of a map of India.

V     The statue of William Jones in St. Paul�s Cathedral has similar features. Jones rests his hand on the sacred books of Hindus.

V     Particularly, the �Manu Smruti� has been upside down! Relief on the front of pedestal has a circular disc with its edge depicting Zodiac.

V     The inner details are from Puranas.

V     Thomas Maurice had given a Christian interpretation for accommodation of such �graven images� inside a Church!