title: The Word and the World: India's Contribution to the Study of Language (Oxford India Paperbacks)
author:  Bimal Krishna Matilal 
description: <br />Bimal Krishna Matilal, <em>Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics and Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford</em><br /><br /><strong>Bimal Krishna Matilal</strong> (1935a91) was Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics, All Souls College, Oxford.<br />
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  EAST GATEWAY OF GREAT STUPA, SAN'CHI 
  (see p. 65) 
  
  INDIA’S PAST 
  A SURVEY of her LITERATURES 
  RELIGIONS, LANGUAGES 
  and ANTIQUITIES 
  By 
  A. A. MACDONELL 
  Emeritus Professor of Sanskrit 
  in the University of Oxford 
  OXFORD 
  AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 
  1927 
  
  Printed in England 
  At the Oxford University Press 
  By John Johnson 
  Printer to the University 
  831-0 
  Mohs-- 
  350379 
  
  PREFACE 
  This work summarizes India’s intellectual history, which 
  in its various aspects has been the subject of my studies for 
  slightly more than half a century (1875 to 1926). It sets 
  forth in nine chapters the mental development of the most 
  easterly branch of Aryan civilization since it entered India 
  by land till it came in contact by sea with the most 
  westerly branch of the same civilization after a separation 
  of at least