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Languages and Nations : Conversations in Colonial South India

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

eBook, English, 2002
University of California Press, Berkeley, 2002