English, the Common Language of India by J. H. Barrows

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 19, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 46.

English, the Common Language of India

By J. H. Barrows

SOME time ago, in Calcutta, there came together 1,000 of the most prominent men of the native races of Hindostan. They were Parsees and Brahmans and Mohammedans and men of the lower Indian castes. They spoke the languages of the native races of the great Indian Empire—the Tamil, the Hindustani, the Hindi, the Telugu, the Punjabee, and the rest. But there was only one tongue in which they could make themselves intelligible to each other, and that was the language into which Englishmen have translated the Bible.—J. H. Barrows.