Book Title: Alphabet Key To History Of Mankind
Author(s): David Diringer
Publisher: Hutchinsons Scientific and Technical Publications

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________________ INDIAN BRANCH your book on the Alphabet, as a specimen of . and hope it will be sufficient for your purpose. Yours truly, 397 writing, BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE INDIAN SCRIPTS The immense debt which the foregoing chapter owes particularly to Dr. G. Buehler's Indian Paleography and Sir George A. Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India is, I hope, too obvious from the text to need further emphasis. Without access to the Linguistic Survey of India, that unrivalled guide to the hundreds of Indian forms of speech and writing, and without consulting Buehler's Indische Palæographie ("GRUNDRISS DER INDO-ARISCHEN PHILOLOGIE UND ALTERTUMSKUNDE," 1, if, 1896; edited in English in 1904 by J. F. Fleet, as an appendix of the "INDIAN ANTIQUARY"), a book of imaginative scholarship, the greater part of this chapter could never have been even attempted. The Linguistic Survey of India was published in the years 1904-1928, in eleven volumes, some of them consisting of two or three large parts. Buehler's book, however partly out of date, is still essential for the study of the origin and the early development of the Indian characters. The Indian inscriptions are collected in the Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum. Readers who wish to go more deeply into the subject will find a copious bibliography in the three aforementioned works, as also in the specialized journals, annuals, transactions of learned societies, and so forth. The publications bearing upon the various Indian scripts have been so numerous that it is impossible to provide a complete bibliography, even when first-class authorities only are referred to, while a too short selection must be arbitrary and invidious, However, some publications have already been quoted, and some more, mostly recent books are cited here: "THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY," Bombay, 1872 onwards. "CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM," Calcutta (and Oxford), 1877 onwards. J. F. Fleet, Pali, Sanskrit and Old Canarese Inscriptions, etc., London, 1878; Epigraphy, in The Imperial Gazetter of India, Vol. II, Chapter 1, new edition, Oxford, 1908. J. Fergusson and J. Burgess, The Cave Temples of India, London, 1880. G. Grierson, A Handbook to the Kayathi Character, Calcutta, 1881. J. Burgess, Tamil and Sanskrit Inscriptions, etc., Madras, 1886. "EPIGRAPHIA INDICA," Calcutta, 1892 onwards. W. S. Clair Tisdall, Simplified Grammar of Gujarati Language, London, 1892. R. C. Dutt, History of Civilization in Ancient India, London, 1893. R. O. Franke, Pali und Sanskrit, etc., Strasbourg, 1902. F. Kittel, A Grammar of the Kannada Language, Mangalore, 1903. A. F. Hoernle and H. A. Stark, A History of India, 2nd ed., Cuttack, 1904. "EPIGRAPHIA INDO-MOSLEMICA," Calcutta, 1908 onwards. H. Lueders, A List of Brahmi Inscriptions from the Earliest Times to about A.D. 400 ("EPIGRAPHIA INDICA," Append.), Calcutta, 1910. S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar, Ancient India, Madras, 1911; The Beginnings of South Indian History, Madras, 1918. L. D. Barnett, Antiquities of India, London, 1913. J. D. Anderson, Peoples of India, Cambridge, 1913. E. J. Rapson, Ancient India, Cambridge, 1914; and others, The Cambridge History of India, Cambridge, 1922 onwards.

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