Languages and Nations: The Dravidian Proof in Colonial Madras

by Thomas R. Trautmann

Book Overview

British rule of India brought together two very different traditions of scholarship about language, whose conjuncture led to several intellectual breakthroughs of lasting value. Two of these were especially important: the conceptualization of the Indo-European language family by Sir William Jones at Calcutta in 1786--proposing that Sanskrit is related to Persian and languages of Europe--and the conceptualization of the Dravidian language family of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520244559
• ISBN13: 9780520244559
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 321 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"