Book review
Colonialism and Grammatical Representation: John Gilchrist and the analysis of the ‘Hindustani’ language in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries By Richard Steadman-Jones ( Publications of the Philological Society, 41).
Oxford & Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2007. x, 280 pp. ISBN 978-1-4051-6132-9 £22.99 $39.95

Reviewed by John E. Joseph
University of Edinburgh
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