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An academic study of British colonial scholarship in Madras that traces the development of the concept of the Dravidian language family and its role in wider European linguistic theory, showing how South Indian and British language analysis intersected to shape historical linguistics and ideas of nationhood in the early nineteenth century.

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245: $a: Languages and Nations: The Dravidian Proof in Colonial Madras
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100: $a: Thomas R. Trautmann
650: $a: History
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250: $b: University of California Press
250: $c: 2006
020: $a: 9780520244559
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