Historical Sketches Of The South Of India In An Attempt To Trace The History Of Mysore From The Origin Of The Hindu Government Of That State To The Extinction Of The Mohammedan Dynasty In 1799

Author : Mark Wilks
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ISBN 13 : 9781331087779
Total Pages : 564 pages
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Download or read book Historical Sketches of the South of India, in an Attempt to Trace the History of Mysoor, Vol. 1 written by Mark Wilks and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historical Sketches of the South of India, in an Attempt to Trace the History of Mysoor, Vol. 1: From the Origin of the Hindoo Government of That State, to the Extinction of the Mohammedan Dynasty in 1799 It is difficult to device any plan for the orthography of Asiatic names that shall be entirely free from objection. The scheme of Sir William Jones would be unexceptionable, were it generally known to the English reader, but without this previous knowledge its adoption might tend to mislead. The letter in Hindu, for example, would be the correct orthography for Italy; but to convey the proper sound to the mere English reader we must write Hindoo. There is a variety of sounds which different persons, and even the same person at different times, will express by different English letters, and for practical purposes it us unnecessary to be fastidious in our choice. Whether we write Ali, Alec, or Ally, seems to be write indifferent; the second syllable will probably be pronounced in the same manner. Where it is to be decided whether errors familiarised to the English ear should be rejected or retained, the rule which I have proposed to myself is to retain the error where it has been uniform, and to reject it where the spelling has been various. An example of each will explain this design. 1st. To substitute for the well known name Seringapatam the true orthography of Sreerung-puttun, would not only have appearance of affectation, but would produce real confusion. There are however some few exceptious to the general rule of retaining the error where it has been uniform. Adoni, for example, instead of Advance, is so violent a change, and so absolutely unintelligible to any native of India, that after having noticed the identity of the name where if first occurs, I have generally continued the latter spelling. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."