James R. Ballantyne
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1813 – 1864
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Who was James R. Ballantyne?
James Robert Ballantyne was a Scottish Orientalist, from 1845 superintendent of the Sanskrit College in Varanasi. He went to England in 1861 where he was elected librarian of the India Office.
Ballantyne published grammars of Sanskrit, Hindi, and Marathi, and published an edition of the Laghukaumudi of Varadaraja 1849-52 and the first part of the Mahabhashya of Patanjali in 1856, for the first time opening native Indian grammatical tradition to a wider European scholarly audience.
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- Born
- Dec 13, 1813
- Also known as
- James Ballantyne
- James R Ballantyne
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Died
- Feb 16, 1864
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on July 23, 2013
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