Contents: Preface. Introduction. I. Dravidian linguistics: 1. North Dravidian velar stops (Te. Po. Mi. Manivira Malar) [Studies presented to T.P. Meenakshisundaram], pp. 371-88 [1961]; excerpt from review of Martin Pfeiffer, Elements of Kurux Historical Phonology, in Language 50.755-58 [1974]. 2. Brahui demonstrative pronouns (Journal of the Asiatic Society [Bengal] 3.1-5 [1961]. 3. New Brahui etymologies (Indological Studies in Honor of W. Norman Brown [American Oriental Series, 47], pp. 59-69 [1962]. 4. Brahui vowels (Brahui and Dravidian Comparative Grammar [University oif California Publications in Linguistics, 27], chapter 2, pp. 7-20 [1962]. 5. Brahui n/r verbs (ibid., chapter 3, pp. 21-46 [1962]. 6. The South Dravidian languages (JAOS 87. 365-413 [1967]. 7. Some South Dravidian noun formatives (Indian Linguistics 27 [Meenakshisundaran Felicitation Volume, part I], pp. 21-30 [1968]). 8. Brahui sal/sali- 'to stand': an etymology (Pratidanam: Indian, Iranian and Indo-European Studies presented to Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus Kuiper on his Sixtieth Birthday, pp. 339-41 [1968]. 9. A Kota vowel shift (Journal of Tamil Studies 1:1.21-34 [1969]). 10. Kodagu vowels (JAOS 90. 145-58 [1970]). 11. Kodagu and Brahui developments of Proto-Dravidian *r (Indo-Iranian Journal 13.176-98 [1971]). 12. Studies in Dravidian verb stem formation (JAOS 95.1-24 [1975]). 13. Personal names of the Coorgs (JAOS 96.7-14 [1976]). 14. Toda vowels in non-initial syllables (Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 42. 225-34 [1979]). 15. Linguistic archaisms in Toda songs (South Asian Language Analysis [SALA] 1.31-45 [1979]). 16. Brahui laterals from Proto-Dravidian *r (JAOS 100. 311-12 [1980]). 17. Indian pronominal demonstrative bases--a revision (Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, pp. 20-27 [1980]). 18. Kannada Kampa, Tamil Kampan: Two proper names (JAOS 105.401-04 [1985]). 19. Some notes on Dravidian intensives (Festschrift for Henry Hoenigswald on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday, pp. 109-13 [1987]). 20. The right hand is the 'cating hand': an Indian areal linguistic inquiry (Dimensions of Social Life: Essays in Honor of David G. Mandelbaum, pp. 263-73 [1987]). 21. Proto-Dravidian *c- and its developments (JAOS 108.239-68 [1988]). 22. The languages of Nilgiris (Blue Mountains: the Ethnography and Biogeography of a South Indian Region, pp. 133-43 [1989]). 23. Indo-Aryan origin of Gondi cud (d)- 'small' (Indologica Taurinensia 14 [Colette Caillar Felicitation Volume], 195-99 [1987-88]). II. Toda studies: 24. Ootacamund in the Nilgiris: some notes (JAOS 83.188-93 [1963]). 25. Toda dream songs (JAOS 85.39-44 [1965]). 26. Toda verbal art and Sanskritization (Journal of the Oriental Institute, Baroda 14 [Dr. Benoytosh Bhattacharya Memorial Number], pp. 273-79 [1965]). 27. Style and meaning in an oral literature (Language 42.323-45 [1966]). Index.

"Of these 27 articles on Dravidian subjects, 23 deal with linguistic topics, several ranging through the Dravidian family as a whole; others concentrate on specific languages, such as Toda, Kota, Kodagu, Brahui, but all attempt to fit specific language data into the comparative study of the languages of the family. The author has realized that the comparative study of a language family depends on the firm identification of etymologies, and several of the papers concentrate on etymological study. Such general questions as India as a some-what unified linguistic area, or the structure of personal names, or the ethnological basis of some lexical items, appear in several papers. Four of the papers are on specific Toda subjects; in three of these the approach is in the first place linguistic. These results of some 50 years of study further knowledge of the Dravidian component of India's people and culture." (jacket)