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kindly critic M. G-arcin de Tassy to produce a parallel instance on 

 his side of the question, and shew how, on finding some obscure Per- 

 sian or Urdu book more than he could manage, he called in two or 

 three chance baniyas from the bazar, and received from them a satis- 

 factory solution of his difficulties. Till this has been done, I must 

 hold to my old convictions, and base thereupon a practical theory, 

 viz. that popular education should be imparted through the medium 

 of the vernacular Hindi ; and, if it is, as I believe it to be, desir- 

 able to teach a second language, this foreign language should be not 

 Urdu, the memorial of an obsolete dynasty, but, in accordance with 

 immemorial Indian usage, the language of the dominant power, that 

 is to say at the present time, English. 



