Languages and Nations : The Dravidian Proof in Colonial Madras /

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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...

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Autor principal: Trautmann, Thomas R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Ellis, Francis Whyte, > 1777-1819
Ellis, Francis Whyte, > 1777-1819.
Education.
Orientalism.
Indologists.
Dravidian philology.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Historical & Comparative.
Indianistes > Inde > Chennai > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Orientalisme > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Indologists > India > Chennai > History > 19th century.
Orientalism > History > 19th century.
Dravidian philology > History > 19th century.
India > Chennai.
India.
Inde > Étude et enseignement > Inde > Histoire > 19e siecle.
India > Study and teaching > India > History > 19th century.
History
Electronic books.
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Sumario: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 South India by F.W. Ellis at Madras in 1816-the ""Dravidian proof, "" showing that the languages of South India are related to one another but are not
Descripción Física:1 online resource (321 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9780520931909

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