Bimal Krishna Matilal

Indian philosopher at Oxford who was the most important figure in making classical Indian philosophy (Nyaya, Mimamsa, Vedanta) available to analytic philosophers — demonstrating that Indian philosophical traditions engage the same problems as Western philosophy with equal rigor.

Made Indian logic and epistemology (Navya-Nyaya) comprehensible to analytic philosophers — demonstrating that Nyaya logic is technically sophisticated and addresses problems of reference and predication parallel to Frege — creating the field of comparative philosophy as rigorous rather than merely exotic.