Madhuvidya

SR No.: 006525
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: S D Laddu, T N Dharmadhikari, Madhvi Kolhatkar, Pratibha Pingle
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2001
Total Pages: 762
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Literature, & Philosophy
File Size: 17 MB

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done by Indians themselves. This work, already started by a few pupils of Sir Ralph, is now being done more extensively at some of the University Departments of Linguistics. The establishment of these Departments is the direct result of the deliberations carried on and the resolutions passed at the Conference of Linguists and Educationists held at Deccan College, Pune, from 26th to 29th May 1953 under the General Presidentship of Sir Ralph Turper.
In recognition of the services rendered by Prof. Turner to the cause of the advancement of knowledge, knighthood was conferred on him in 1950. He also received many other academic distinctions from the Universities in the U. K., India, and Nepal. In addition, he was twice invested by the two successive kings of Nepal with the Order of Gorkhā Dakşiņa Babu First class.
The task of preparing an Index to any volume is laborious, all the more so when it comes to the preparation of an Index to a dictionary. But this was accomplished with great devotion by Mrs. Turner. An Index of all the words cited from the different languages in the Nepali Dictionary was prepared by her and published along with the Dictionary in 1931. The Index to the Comparative Dictionary, prepared on similar lines, was also compiled by Mrs. Turner and published subsequently as a supplementary volume (1969). Not only this. Mrs. Turner also collaborated with her husband in the preparation and publication (1971) of a second supplementary volume designated as Phonetic Analysis, which, in fact, turns out to be a regrouping of the materials presented in the Etymological Dictionary, with a view to helping any one interested in examining the histories of some 1500 sounds or sound.groups from the earliest to the latest phases of Indo-Aryan. "No account of the works of Sir Ralph would be adequate", observes Prof. Brough in his Foreword to the “ Collected Papers ", " if it did not ioclude a tribute to his wife, Dorothy Rivers Turner, who, until her death in 1972, gave him such constant aid and support, not least in compiling the lodexes ..."
M. A. Mebendale
1 Mention of bis Presidential Address is missing in the list of the "Writings of Sir
Ralph (Books and Articles )" (upto 1957) published in BSOAS Vol. 20 (1957) published in honour of Sir Ralph Turner. 46 (Annals BORI)
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