Colonialism, Orientalism and the Dravidian Languages

This book studies the development of Telugu - with its unique grammatical and lexical tradition as instrumental in the construction of the concept of the Dravidian language family in 1816, and in the development of comparative linguistics since that time.

K. Venkateswarlu was formerly Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.

Foreword. Preface and Acknowledgements 1. The Problem 2. Historical Context and Institutional Matrix 3. The Dravidian Language Family 4. Telugu Grammatical Tradition 5. Telugu Language -- Site for Formulation of Dravidian Language Family 6. Orientalism. Bibliography. About the Author. Index.