Eight lectures on the history of the Aryan speech in India and on the development of Hindi (Hindusthani) delivered before the Research & Post-graduate Department of the Gujarat Vernacular Society in 1940. ― Ahmedabad : Gujarat Vernacular Society, 1942 ― xiii + 258 p.Foreword:In October 1940 at the invitation of the Research and Post-Graduate Department of the Gujarat Vernacular Society of Ahmcdabad two courscs each of four lectures were delivered by me on the Evolution of the Aryan Speech in India and on Hindi as the 'National Language’ of India. The present work is based on the above lectures, revised and enlarged.
The first series of lectures, on the Evolution of Indo-Aryan, is a development or continuation of my views on the history of the Aryan speech in India as put forward in my Origin and Development of the Bengali Language published in 1926. In the second series, I have sought to indicate the importance and significance of the Hindi speech in the life of present-day India and I have tried to formulate the case for a Simplified Hindi, going mainly to Sanskrit for its culture-words and written in an ‘Indo-Roman’ script, as the most natural and inevitable thing. In the lectures on Indo-Aryan, I have to express my indebtedness to L'Indo-Aryen of Professor Jules Bloch of Paris, my esteemed guru in Indian Linguistics, for some ideas and suggestions, apart from other works. I have incorporated in the section on Hindi three papers I contributed on the subject of a National Language for India in the Calcutta daily the Hindusthan Standard (October 11, and November 7 and si, 19-37). In studying the evolution of the Hindi (Hindustani or Hindusthahi) speech as a ‘colonial’ development in the Deccan of a North Indian group of dialects, die suggestion of Professor Jules Bloch in his Forlong Lectures for 1929 ('Some Problems of Indo-Aryan Philology’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, London Institution, Vol. V, Part IV, 1930, p, 730) has been very helpful in pointing the way for the enquiry [.].Русский перевод: /file/1335225/
