RELATING TO INDIAN SUBJECTS. BY BRIAN HOUGHTON HODGSON, Esq., F.R.S. LATE OF THE BENGAL CIVIL SERVICE; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE; CHEVALIER OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR; ASIATIQUE; MEMBER OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETIES OF CALCUTTA AND LONDON; OF THE ETHNOLOGICAL AND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETIES OF LONDON; AND LATE BRITISH MINISTER AT THE VOL. I. LIBRARY LONDON: TRÜBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL. 1880. 15 [All rights reserved.] PREFACE. In the notice prefixed to the "Essays on the Languages, Literature, and Religion of Nepal and Tibet" (1874), reference is made to the probability of a republication of the remaining papers of Mr. Hodgson, comprising not only Articles IV., V., and XI. of the "Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal, No. XXVII.," which would have found their fittest place in that re-issue, but also his various Papers on the Tribes and Languages of the Northern Non-Aryans adjacent to India, with other Essays of a more general character. That probability has now become a reality, Mr. Hodgson having readily granted permission to the publishers of the "Essays to bring out in a collected form also his remaining papers on Indian languages and ethnology; And inasmuch as the previous volume has already proved of essential service to scholars by placing within their easy reach materials theretofore accessible only to the favoured few who could consult the scarce serials in which the several articles had originally appeared, the present completion of the re-issue, will, it is hoped, be sure of as cordial a welcome. To the Papers numbered I. to VIII. the same value and interest attach at the present day as were accorded to them when they were published for the first time, hardly any fresh |