20 Annual A,idress. [Feb. 



WouK OF iHi': Ykar. 



Under tlie lunidsof Pliiloloiry and Arcliajolo^y, as ti-eated in Part I 

 of tlm Journal and in tlie Bibliutktica Lulica \vu liave to consider the 

 following sections : — 



(1) Modern Iiidifin Vernacubirs ; tlieir grammai- ai)d liteiatuie ; 



(2) The classical languages of India: Sanskrit, Aiabic and 



Persian ; 



(3) History iind Antiquities : tlio latter term inclutliiig Aielueo- 



logy, Inscriptions and Coins. 



Among the languages nosv spoken in India, Kaqmiri has be^n 

 liitherto unduly neglected by Orientiil Scliolars. Except for an im- 

 perfect gramm;ir and dictionai-y, nothing to speak of has been done to 

 elucidate the grammatical structure of this in many respects very 

 important language. This gap has now been fi led by Mr. Grierson, 

 to whose scholarship tlie study of Modern Indo Aryan Vernaculars 

 already owes so much. In the year under review, he completed his 

 edition of Iccarahiulas KagminiQahdamrta, ov "the nectar of Kd(^ntlrl 

 words," tlie woik of a modern Pamiit of Ka.shmir, which treats of the 

 language of that country according to the system of Hindu Gi-ammar. 

 In a series of articles published in Journal Pai t I, Mr. Griei-s<m has also 

 dealt witli tlie rules contained in I^varakanla'sGrrammar, in the systetnat'c 

 method of European scholars. Of this sei'ies, the 'ast Volume of the 

 Journal contains papers on the Kagmlri Nouns and Snfixes, which for 

 the first time make available a large amount of information hitherto 

 inaccessible. 



To the same Scholar we owe a clnp from his Linguistic workshop 

 of very exceptional interest. His paper on a dialect of Guzerati 

 spoken in the Distiict of Midnapiir shows how, bv circulating for 

 translationa version of the parable of the Prodigal son (which judiciously 

 substitutes a kid for the pi-overbial fatted calf i he has unearthed a queer 

 tribe of criminal tripsies called Siyalgiris, about 120 strong, who speak 

 a variety of the corrupt form of Guzerati current among the Bhils. How 

 they found their way across India, what led them to split off from the 

 main body of their tribe, and why they hav^e maintained their- language 

 for 150 years while adopting, as is stated to be the case, tlie religion 

 and customs of the people about them, are questions which may never 

 be answered. Like most illiterate nomads, they aie afflicted or blessed 

 with short memories. One may perhaps venture to surmise that they 

 found it convenient for professional pui-poses to keep up a language 

 which their neiglibt)urs did not nndotstand. It is stated that they 

 marry only among thum.'>tlves but have adopted the local Hiiutu pat- 



