Indian Grammatical Tradition

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Inaugural address/H S Ananthanarayana. 2. Some classical Indian views of language: from code to discourse/Probal Dasgupta. 3. Vedic grammar: learning and imparting/Samiran Chandra Chakrabarti.  4. Pre-Paninian Indian grammatical tradition: new line added/Dipak Bhattacharya. 5. Panini and his grammar/Mrinal Kanti Gangopadhyay. 6. The philosophy of Sanskrit grammar/Tapan Sarkar Bhattacharyya. 7. Patanjali and non-Paninian grammarians: some observations/Parboty Chakraborty. 8. Pali grammatical tradition/Sukomal Chaudhuri. 9. Prakrit grammatical tradition/H S Ananthanarayana. 10. Notions of the sentence and the clause in Indian grammatical thought through the centuries/Tista Bagchi. 11. History and significance of Tibetan Script and language: a study/Sanjib Kumar Das.  12. The grammatical tradition of the Tibeto-Burman languages in India/Satarupa Dattamajumdar. 13. Tamil grammatical tradition in Indian tradition of grammar/R. Srinivasan. 14. Arabic grammar: its dialects and colloquial (Indian context)/Md. Badiur Rahman. 15. Persian grammatical tradition in India, with special reference to Bengal/M. Firoze. 16. Sanskrit and its spread in Central Asia, the PRC including the TAR/Suniti Kumar Pathak and Bandana Mukherjee. 17. Comparative Grammar and comparative philology—the founding stones for the history of linguistic science/Mohidas Bhattacharya.