A sketch of the modern languages of the East Indies . 3 1924 023 329 752 TRUBNERS ORIENTAL SERIES. BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND AND LONDON A SKETCH MODERN LANGUAGES OF THEEAST INDIES. ^ccotnpanieli lig Eiaa 3Lansuage=J5lapsi, EOBEET K OUST, LATE OF HER MAJESTYS INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE, AND HONORARY LIBRARIAN OF IHE ROYAL J^IA^G SOCIETY. Amicus Plato, Amicus Socrates;Major Amicus Veritas. LONDON:TEtJBNEE & CO., LUDGATE HILL. 1878. [All rights reserved.] V4^4i TO EDWARD LYALL BRANDRETH, THE OLDEST OF MY FRIENDS,ANDMY FELLOW-LABOURERIN LINGUISTIC AND ORIENTAL STUDIES, SCfjts Uolume ISDEDICA T
A sketch of the modern languages of the East Indies . 3 1924 023 329 752 TRUBNERS ORIENTAL SERIES. BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND AND LONDON A SKETCH MODERN LANGUAGES OF THEEAST INDIES. ^ccotnpanieli lig Eiaa 3Lansuage=J5lapsi, EOBEET K OUST, LATE OF HER MAJESTYS INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE, AND HONORARY LIBRARIAN OF IHE ROYAL J^IA^G SOCIETY. Amicus Plato, Amicus Socrates;Major Amicus Veritas. LONDON:TEtJBNEE & CO., LUDGATE HILL. 1878. [All rights reserved.] V4^4i TO EDWARD LYALL BRANDRETH, THE OLDEST OF MY FRIENDS,ANDMY FELLOW-LABOURERIN LINGUISTIC AND ORIENTAL STUDIES, SCfjts Uolume ISDEDICA TED. London, yuly The original of this book is inthe Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions inthe United States on the use of the text. PREFACE. I LEFT India abruptly in 1867 under the pressure of heavy-domestic affliction, a few months before my term of servicewas completed, and I had done my days work. When,after a year of darkness, I found myself restored to myusual physical and intellectual vigour, my first thoughtwas, What can I do for India? I was commissioned to draft a Land-Eevenue-Code forthe North-West Provinces, and, when that work was done,I applied for employment, as Assistant Secretary in theRevenue and Judicial Department of the India Office,which happened to fall vacant. There were, however, somany gentlemen to be provided for, who had never seenIndia, nor knew the difference between a Jdjir and a Jhagrd, a fusul and a faiscda that I had to fold up ina napkin my experience of a quarter of a century fromthe lo
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