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प्रश्न
Highlight the contribution of Caldwell for the cause of South Indian languages.
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- In 1816, F. W. Ellis who founded the College of Fort St. George, formulated the theory that the south Indian languages belonged to a separate family which was unrelated to the Indo-Aryan family of languages.
- Robert Caldwell (1814-1891) expanded this argument in a book titled. A comparative grammar of the Dravidian or South Indian family of languages in 1856.
- He established the close affinity between the Dravidian languages in contrast with Sanskrit and also established the antiquity of Tamil.
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