A Comparative Grammar Of The Dravidian Or South Indian Family Of Languages

Bishop Caldwell’s Comparative Grammar of the Dravadian or South Indian Family of Languages is so well known a classic of Indian philosophy as to need no introduction to readers who are interested in the ethnology or linguistics of India. The object of the work is to examine and compare the grammatical principles and forms of the various Dravadian languages in the hope of contributing to a more thorough knowledge of their primitive structure and distinctive character. He has while probing this object throuwn light on th question of the relation which this family of languages bar to the principal families or group into which the languages of Europe and Asia have been divided. The Book is a pioneer effort of Dravadian scholarship on European lines and will always have its own interest and importance, even if others should hereafter build on the foundation so solidly laid by the most distinguished investigator of Dravadian philosophy