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- Hans T. Bakker + (Hans+T.+Bakker+%28born+1948%29+is+a+cultur … Hans+T.+Bakker+%28born+1948%29+is+a+cultural+historian+and+Indologist%2C+who+has+served+as+the+Professor+of+the+History+of+Hinduism+and+Jan+Gonda+Chair+at+the+University+of+Groningen.+He+currently+works+in+the+British+Museum+as+a+researcher+in+project+%22Beyond+Boundaries%3A+Religion%2C+Region%2C+Language+and+the+State%22.%0A%0ACareer%0ABefore+joining+the+British+Museum+in+2014%2C+Bakker+was+at+the+University+of+Groningen+in+the+Netherlands+where+he+was+director+of+the+Institute+of+Indian+Studies+at+Groningen+and%2C+from+1996%2C+Professor+of+the+History+of+Hinduism+in+the+Sanskrit+Tradition+and+Indian+Philosophy+and+holder+of+the+Jan+Gonda+Chair+at+the+University+of+Groningen.+He+has+been+a+visiting+fellow+of+All+Souls+College+at+the+University+of+Oxford+and+a+visiting+professor+at+the+University+of+Vienna+and+the+University+of+Kyoto.%0A%0ABakker%27s+main+research+interest+has+been+the+political+and+religious+culture+of+India+in+the+fourth%2C+fifth+and+sixth+centuries.+As+part+of+this+work+he+led+the+study+of+the+earliest+known+version+of+the+%27%27Skanda+Pur%C4%81%E1%B9%87a%27%27+preserved+in+Kathmandu%2C+Nepal.+This+version+of+the+Skanda+Pur%C4%81%E1%B9%87a+is+substantially+different+from+the+%27%27Skanda+Pur%C4%81%E1%B9%87a%27%27+known+from+manuscripts+and+the+printed+edition+in+India.%0A%0ABakker+has+continued+and+expanded+the+best+traditions+of+Dutch+Indology+and+has+trained+a+number+of+able+scholars%2C+among+them+Peter+Bisschop+%28Leiden+University%29%2C+Harunaga+Isaacson+%28University+of+Hamburg%29+and+Yuko+Yokochi+%28University+of+Kyoto%29.%0A%0ABakker+has+been+working+as+researcher+in+%22Beyond+Boundaries%3A+Religion%2C+Region%2C+Language+and+the+State%22%2C+a+project+based+in+the+British+Museum+that+is+funded+by+the+European+Research+Council+%282013%E2%80%932019%29+%28%5Bhttps%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHans_T._Bakker+Source+Accessed+Feb+16%2C+2023%5D%29akker+Source+Accessed+Feb+16%2C+2023%5D%29)