This paper examines the Linguistic Survey of India (LSI), a monumental exercise supervised by George Grierson to survey and classify the languages of colonial India. It considers why the LSI developed into an atypical scheme that corresponded with a multiethnic and multinational network of officials and scholars to survey India's languages. It makes the case that the networked practice of surveying was reciprocated at different scales, from localised linguistic surveys in districts and princely states to gather information and specimens, to a loosely governed transnational exercise involving Indians and Europeans to edit, review and publish results. The paper argues that the LSI's scalar geographies were negotiated by Grierson and, more importantly, his assistant Gauri Kant Roy and demonstrates that scale, as an analytic or process, was not an abstraction or predetermined for those entangled in the LSI's survey of India's languages.

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印度殖民地语言地理的对应、规模和语言学调查，1896-1928


本文研究了印度语言调查 (LSI)，这是乔治·格里尔森 (George Grierson) 监督的一项纪念性活动，旨在对印度殖民时期的语言进行调查和分类。它考虑了为什么 LSI 发展成为一种非典型计划，与多民族和多国的官员和学者网络相对应，以调查印度的语言。它证明了网络化的调查实践在不同规模上得到了回报，从在地区和诸侯国收集信息和样本的本地化语言调查，到涉及印度人和欧洲人编辑、审查和发布结果的松散管理的跨国活动。该论文认为，LSI 的标量地理分布是由格里尔森（Grierson）以及更重要的是他的助手高里·康德·罗伊（Gauri Kant Roy）商定的，并表明，对于那些参与 LSI 对印度语言调查的人来说，标度作为一种分析或过程并不是一种抽象或预先确定的。