"Linguistics is an Indian science par excellence, and the entire modern discipline of modern linguistics in indebted to the Indian grammarians of the 1st millennium BCE. In India, it has briefly missed out on the recent innovation of comparison between seriously different languages (as opposed to dialectal differences, well-known among Indian scholars). But here too, Indians should take some pride in the official birth of IE linguistics in Kolkata 1786... Linguistics started in Takṣaśĭla university, where Pāṇini taught 26 (or so) centuries ago. Indo-European linguistics started at the feet of Brahmin informers in Kolkata (as shown on a freeze in Oxford showing William Jones learning from Hindu Pandits)."
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