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Rh the time, they at times throw very valuable light on certain problems. Therefore, to withhold that information from the readers of Caldwell was an injustice done not only to him, but an insult in addition to the memory of scholars whom he honoured by criticising. Caldwell always kept an open mind on all the problems which he elucidated, and although at times he dissented from others, he always mentioned his opponent's views with the consideration and respect which they certainly deserved. Therefore, to say that those who were ranged against Caldwell are now forgotten and negligible and then to suppress their views is a procedure that he would have much resented Caldwell's editors cannot even be merited with the claim thaythat [sic] have made of having revised and brought the book up-to-date, for they did no such thing.

We have, therefore, to begin the study of Dravidian philology from