A Dictionary of English-Indian Terms of Administration

In such an attempt we had sometimes to reject words even of common use when we found that instead of helping the growth of our language in the direction desired they tended to block the way and to choke the growth. [...] From the days of Akbar the Portuguese the Dutch the French and the English had seen the splendour and grandeur of the Moghul court. [...] The language used in the lower courts of the Punjab and U. P. is far removed from the language of the masses as well as from the Linguistic genius of the country as a whole. [...] Greek and Latin which are the source-languages of Europe are derivates of ancient Sanskrit and hence we find that the system of expressing thoughts and the essential structure of words and sentences is very similar. [...] It may be mentioned here that the recommendations of the “Conference of Language Experts of Major Languages in use in India” convened by the President of the Constituent Assembly at Delhi have been incorporated in this edition.