Discovering Aryan and Dravidian in British India: A tale of two cities

T. Trautmann

DOI:10.1075/HL.31.1.04TRA

Corpus ID: 171003412

Discovering Aryan and Dravidian in British India: A tale of two cities

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  title={Discovering Aryan and Dravidian in British India: A tale of two cities},
  author={T. Trautmann},
  journal={Historiographia Linguistica},
  year={2004},
  volume={31},
  pages={33-58}
}

T. Trautmann

Published 2004

Art

Historiographia Linguistica

SUMMARYBritish India was an especially fruitful site for the development of historical linguistics. Four major, unanticipated discoveries were especially associated with the East India Company: those of Indo-European, Dravidian, Malayo-Polynesian and the Indo-Aryan nature of Romani. It is argued that they came about in British India because the European tradition of language analysis met and combined with aspects of the highly sophisticated Indian language analysis. The discoveries of Indo… CONTINUE READING

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