Contact with western scholars increased, as did knowledge of the work being done in the West.
Most estimates by Western scholars range from 1.3 to 2.0 million.
For a century, they were the best prints available to western scholars.
The same opinion has been put forth by Western scholars.
Some Western scholars feel it remains more legend than fact.
The latter is considered apt by most western scholars who have studies the group.
Western scholars have identified these as evidence of homosexuality in Japan.
Perhaps for that reason, Western scholars seem hardly to have studied the phenomenon.
Sanskrit has been studied by Western scholars since the late 18th century.
This map is used as a source of validation among Western scholars.