The Literature of Bengal
Biographical and Critical History from the Earliest Times Closing with a Review of Intellectual Progress Under British Rule in India
Publisher Description
IT is not difficult to trace the gradual changes in the spoken tongue of Northern India by the help of the ancient works which have been preserved in Sanscrit. In India, as elsewhere, political and religious changes have been attended,—not with sudden changes in the spoken tongue, as is sometimes imagined but with a sudden recognition of such changes which introduce themselves slowly enough.