Languages and Nations - The Dravidian Proof in Colonial Madras

Informationen zum Autor Thomas R. Trautmann is Marshall D. Sahlins Collegiate Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Among his books are Aryans and British India (UC Press! 1997)! Lewis Henry Morgan and the Invention of Kinship (UC Press! 1987)! and Dravidian Kinship (1981). Klappentext A study of the discovery by Sir William Jones of the relationship of Sanskrit to the languages of Europe and Iran--the concept of the Indo-European language family. Zusammenfassung Shows how elements of the Indian analysis of language have been folded into historical linguistics and continue as unseen but nevertheless living elements of the modern. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Preface 1. Explosion in the Grammar Factory 2. P1âini and Tolk1ppiyar 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

Product details

• Authors: Thomas R. Trautmann, Trautmann Thomas R.
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.11.2006
• EAN: 9780520244559
• ISBN: 978-0-520-24455-9
• No. of pages: 321
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, India, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Asian History, Historical & comparative linguistics, Historical and comparative linguistics, HISTORY / Asia / South / India, Indic, East Indo-European and Dravidian languages, Indic, East Indo-European & Dravidian languages