Kannada Book: A Grammar of the Carnataca Language

231 Pages·1820·10.18 MB·English

by  John Mc Kerrell

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gracious permission which I have received to
dedicate following Work to Your Majesty, demands
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the expression
of my humblest thanks. In India, a
knowledge
of
the Languages of the Country, is of the
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importance to the public interests; for, without
that
knowledge, no public servant can discharge the
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duties of his office, either with credit to himself, or with
advantage
to the Government, or to it's subjects.
THE Carnātaca Language is spoken over a great
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was quite familiar with it. Both were men of stern
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dispositions, and little partial to their Hindu
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subjects; but they knew mankind too well not to
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aware, that unless those who govern, be acquainted with
the Language of the governed, a set of middle men will
arise, who will ultimately become the scourges of the
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IN the territories under the British sway in India, thi
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to the World under Your Majesty's most gracious
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DEDICATION.
auspices, be the means of hastening it's extirpation in
one of the fairest portions of our Eastern possessions,
shall not consider that I have laboured in vain.
I have the honour to subscribe myself,
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Y O U R M A J E S T Y'S
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JOHN McKERRELL.
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November the 16th, 1820.