Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface 1. Explosion in the Grammar Factory 2. P1aini and Tolk1ppiyar 3. Ellis and His Circle 4. The College 5. The Dravidian Proof 6. Legacies 7. Conclusions Appendix A. The Legend of the Cow-Pox Appendix B. The Dravidian Proof Bibliography Index

About the Author

Thomas R. Trautmann is Marshall D. Sahlins Collegiate Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Among his books are Aryans and British India (UC Press, 1997), Lewis Henry Morgan and the Invention of Kinship (UC Press, 1987), and Dravidian Kinship (1981).