Indian phlilosophy — if the qualification "Indian' is at all warranted here — has in modern times suffered from a particular handicap, due largely perhaps to the narrow interests promoted by 18–19th-century Orientalists, in that its concerns have been associated with what is generally classified as religion in the West, and in some measure with an explication of a particular worldview, or metaphysics. The more technical concerns in logic, epistemology and problems of language and meaning have been set aside or have remained largely unknown and unappraised in the West: if these, too, have not also been dismissed as being of little interest and sophistication, from Locke and Hume to Flew et al. (Matilal, 1986:2–5).