Ballantyne James Robert

Ballantyne, James Robert, born in 1813 at Kelso, and educated at the Scottish Naval and Military Academy, was sent to India in 1841 to reorganise the Sanscrit College at Benares. He was the forerunner of the great investigators of Hindu literature, editing the Mahabhashya, translating many scientific works into Sanscrit, compiling grammars of Hindi, Mahratta, Persian, and Sanscrit, and writing innumerable treatises and papers on Oriental subjects. In 1861 he returned to England, and was appointed Librarian at the India Office, but died in 1864.