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Robert Caldwell (7 May 1814 – 28 August 1891) was a British missionary and linguist. A missionary for the London Missionary Society, he arrived in British India at age 24, and studied the local language to spread the word of the Bible in a vernacular language, studies that led him to author a text on comparative grammar of the ...
11 de jul. de 2008 · A comparative grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian family of languages. by. Caldwell, Robert. Publication date. 1875. Topics. Dravidian languages -- Grammar, Comparative. Publisher. London, Trübner.
Bishop Robert Caldwell (1814 -1891) was an orientalist who pioneered the study of the Dravidian languages with his influential work Comparative Grammar of Dravidian Languages (1856; revised edition 1875). Robert Caldwell was born on May 7,1814 to Scottish parents.
Robert Caldwell, the Scottish missionary and bishop who wrote the first comparative grammar of the Dravidian languages (1856), argued that the term sometimes referred ambiguously to South Indian people and their languages; he adopted it as a generic name for the whole family since Tamil…
29 de ene. de 2024 · Did you know that the term 'Dravidian' was popularized by a missionary scholar named Robert Caldwell? Robert Caldwell was not just a missionary, but also a linguist, a historian, and a controversial figure in the Dravidian movement.
A man of phenomenal energy and practical imagination, whose powerful personality emerges very clearly in Kumaradoss’s engrossing account, Caldwell dedicated his mission to the poorest of the poor, for the most part low caste Shanars.
Robert Caldwell was a Presbyterian missionary and linguist who worked in South India for over fifty years. He founded schools, revived Tamil literature and culture, and became an Anglican bishop.
