(EN) Denis Vidal, Max Muller and the theosophists or the other half of victorian orientalism, in Jackie Assayag, Roland Lardinois e Denis Vidal, Orientalism and Anthropology; from Max Muller to Louis Dumont, collana Pondy Papers in Social Science, n. 24, Institut Français de Pondichéry, 1997, ISBN 978-81-8470-077-0, ffhal-01293966f.
«if Max Muller wished to place as much distance as he could between his work and that of the theosophists, the feeling was mutual. H.P. Blavatsky did not acknowledge any debt towards Wilson and other Sanskritists any more than Wilson did towards Sayana. Instead of appealing to science to ascertain the singularity of her work, she referred to the supernatural nature of the inspiration that served as her guide»
