Primal Chandra Mitra is a prolific writer and contributor of a large number of valuable research articles, both in Bengali and English, on languages, especially on Santhali, the most primitive language of India, nay, the world, as his present publication "Santhali the Base of World Languages". Endeavours to establish quite successfully.
As a retired Deputy Magistrate in the W.B.C.S. cadre and District Special Officer in charge of Tribal Welfare Department of the Govt. of West Bengal for long, he had the rare opportunity to go deep into the social ways of life of the tribal people, especially the Santhals and this had imbued him to make an in depth study of the language and culture of this neglected section of Indian society from the closest proximity.
The present work which is in close footstep of his earlier Bengali work 'Santhal Bhasa': Bhitti O Sambhavana', is nothing but the culmination of his long endurance and perseverance for his most painstaking but no less scholastic endeavour for the linguists and scholars at large.
On the face of it, the dissertation of Shri Parimal Chandra Mitra under the nomenclature "SANTHALI: THE BASE OF WORLD LANGUAGES" is a very bold and challenging endeavour which, on the acceptance of his bone of contention as expressed through the nomenclature by the linguists and scholars at large, might cause ripples, if not tremors in the field of linguistic research and wash away or shake the very foundation and edifice of our century old contention that the Indo-European languages lay at the very root of our languages and in the case of India, it was Iranian and more specifically, Indo-Iranian was the base of all languages and that the Re-Vedic language and Avestan were just the offsprings of the old Iranian mother. In the said context of history of our language, Shri Mitra's work is surely a deviation and off-the-track, due to his non-traditional manner of thinking and adopting quite a novel approach of the kind.
But Shri Mitra's persevering and painstaking research project of nearly four decades duration on Sinthali or Kol language, belonging to the very primitive Austric group of languages and hitherto fore undertaken only by a few, is highly laudable and deserves appreciation, especially in the context of the peculiar and very intricate vocabulary it possesses as also the lack of a proper script, reflecting adequately the phonetic aspect of this language unlike just the reverse in other Indian languages, marked by the presence of a highly developed vocabulary and an equally so written script However, to establish his bone of contention in the dissertation, as noted above, from both historical and linguistic aspects, Shri Mitra seems to have gone all the way, having left no stone unturned and used all the ammunitions in his arsenal to pierce his target.
A summarised discussion on the inception of ancient languages of the world mentioned in this book, is an integral part of the work.
Discussions have been made about the place of inception of human beings of the world and the way by which they spread throughout different parts of the globe, since pre-historic ages. The most reasonable conclusion is irresistible that the inception of mankind began from Europe, more specifically from Germany; notwithstanding the probability of its inception from any other part of the Globe.
However from this discovery, it reveals that all the languages of the world have been rooted from one primitive language, which has since been identified and located as the living speech language of Kol (Santhal) people in India.
The recorded proofs of this language have been adduced, starting since the era of Pictographs and linear inscription onwards.
Presently we are not in a position to ascertain any other recorded proof of more antiquity of which Kol language might be a derived form.
Some historical facts as came to the notice and knowledge of the author, hitherto unknown have also been included.
Interested scholars may kindly think, if the existing traditional linguistic theory requires a radical change in the contention of this author as brought home to the Scholars at large for their judgment, through this work.
In transliterations of examples, the meaning of Kol word- moh>m Compassion; has been mentioned as per dictionary.
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