Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t57.2
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Dr Raghuvira was a great Indian philologist. He was in the forefront of a movement to establish a common Indian language against the imperialist monopoly of English. Having good command over Indian languages like Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu, Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu and Punjabi and of foreign languages like Persian, Arabic and Tibetan, he coined some 150,000 scientific and other terms with Sanskrit as the common base just like Latin has been for European languages. His monumental work, the ‘Greater English-Hindi Dictionary’ remains his fundamental contribution to the cause of Indian languages.