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Belgium to send their most talented scholastics to engage in the deep study of Hindu texts. Pierre Johanns and Georges Dandoy were fruits of this vision of Wallace. These St Xavier's Jesuits âproduced a durable synthesis of Catholicism and Hinduism.... The âBengal School,â which these came to be clubbed under, was the lasting contribution to India of Father William Wallace.â The 'Bengal School' is also known as the '
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in 1882, received a degree in divinity, and sought ordination in the
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