CHAPTER II

The standard authority on the modern languages of India is Sir G. A. Grierson's work on _The Languages of India_ (Calcutta, 1903). It will, however, be superseded by the book which Sir G. A. Grierson is now writing on the basis of the further materials collected in his _Linguistic Survey_, and in the Census Reports of 1911. The eleven volumes hitherto published of the _Survey_ itself give specimens of the Indian languages and skeleton grammars.