A Bonda Dictionary (An Old and Rare Book)

Language: English
Pages: 252


Foreword

On the 15th of October 1964 the Deccan College celebrated the centenary of its main Building, and curiously enough this period coincided with the Silver Jubliee of the Postgraduate and Research Institute which as successor to the Deccan College, started functioning from 17th August 1939 when members of the teaching faculty reported on duty. When I suggested to members of our faculty the novel idea that the centenary should be celebrated by the publication of a hundred monographs representing the research carried on under the auspices of the Deccan College in its several departments they readily accepted the suggestion. These contributions are from present and past faculty members and research scholars of the Deccan College, giving a cross-section of the manifold research that it has sponsored during the past twentyfive years. From small beginnings in 1939 the Deccan College has now grown into a well developed and developing Research Institute and become a national centre in so far as Linguistics, Archaeology and Ancient India History, and Anthropology and Sociology are concerned. Its international status is attested by the location of the India Institute of German Studies (jointly sponsored by the Deccan College and the Goethe Institute of Munich), the American Institute of Indian Studies and a branch of the Ecole Francaise d’ Extreme-Orient in the campus of the Deccan College. The century of monographs not only symbolises the centenary of the original building and the silver jubilee of the Research Institute, but also the new spirit of critical enquiry and the promise of more to come.

 

Preface

 

The Munda Problem

There are some interesting tribes in Central India who speak