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Rh previous generation, but also extend our knowledge concerning them. Unless all this is done with the aid of all the modern methods and appliances that are ready to hand, we cannot hope to construct at least the history of the individual languages, much less approach the problem of their ultimate relationship. If native scholars had taken up the suggestion of Caldwell and continued his studies, we would have by this time produced a work of the character of 'The History of the Bengali language” written by Dr. Sunit Kumar Chatterjee under the auspices of the Calcutta University. But that was not to be. Later Christian missionaries have not been inspired with the same zeal as those of a former generation for the study of the South Indian languages. If fortunately, however, we have, at present, a Sten Konow, a F. W. Thomas, a Grierson and a Dr. Bloch still interested in Dravidian philology,