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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The library holds a collection of some 25,000 volumes received mainly by donation concentrating on the study of Hindu culture, religion, languages, literature, philosophy, arts and society. Areas of strength include Sanskrit grammar, poetics, philosophy, theology, comparative theology, and religions studies. The collection reached its present size with major donations from <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Brian Pearce]], UK, Prof. J.A.F. Roodbergen, </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Netherlands, [[Tamala Krishna Goswami|Tamal Krishna Goswami]], USA, Prof. M. Narasimhachary, India, Prof. Tuvia Gelblum, UK, Prof. [[Friedhelm Hardy]], UK, H. D. Goswami, USA, and Prof. Joseph T. O'Connell, Canada</del>.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.asiamap.ac.uk/collections/collection.php?ID=352&Query=oxford+hindu&Order=0&pp=15&View=0&Level=Child|title=OCHS library collection|date=2011-03-04|publisher=Asiamap.ac.uk|access-date=2013-11-11}}</ref><ref name=":8">{{Cite news|title=The Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies Board of Governors Report 2017–18 |date=June 2018|work=The Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies }}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The library holds a collection of some 25,000 volumes received mainly by donation concentrating on the study of Hindu culture, religion, languages, literature, philosophy, arts and society. Areas of strength include Sanskrit grammar, poetics, philosophy, theology, comparative theology, and religions studies. The collection reached its present size with major donations from <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">scholars across </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">globe</ins>.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.asiamap.ac.uk/collections/collection.php?ID=352&Query=oxford+hindu&Order=0&pp=15&View=0&Level=Child|title=OCHS library collection|date=2011-03-04|publisher=Asiamap.ac.uk|access-date=2013-11-11}}</ref><ref name=":8">{{Cite news|title=The Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies Board of Governors Report 2017–18 |date=June 2018|work=The Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies }}</ref></div></td></tr>
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