A considerable portion of this Grammar was written without consulting any other work; but, after awhile, I thought it well to compare notes with the latest and best Urdū Grammarian—Mr. J. T. Platts, of Oxford University. The result was that I felt persuaded that I could not do better than take his admirable and exhaustive Grammar as my model, and to appropriate (with thankful acknowledgment) a good deal of its erudite teaching. To those students who do not want at present to go in for the vernacular character, this appropriation of Rules and Examples will be most valuable and economical; while those who aim at the "highest standard" cannot do better than procure and master that comprehensive but costly work, Platts’s Hindūstānī Grammar.
November, 1894.
