Title; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; 1 Explosion in the Grammar Factory; 2 Pânini and Tolkappiyar; 3 Ellis and His Circle; 4 The College; 5 The Dravidian Proof; 6 Legacies; 7 Conclusions; Appendix A. The Legend of the Cow-Pox; Appendix B. The Dravidian Proof; Bibliography; Index
Summary
British rule of India brought together different traditions of scholarship about language, whose conjuncture led to several intellectual breakthroughs. This book examines these developments, and shows how elements of the Indian analysis of language have been folded into historical linguistics, and are unseen but nevertheless living elements
