James R. Ballantyne

James Robert Ballantyne was a Scottish Orientalist.
From 1832 to 1845 he was a master at the Scottish Naval and Military Academy in Edinburgh, teaching Persian Hindi and Arabic to prospective officers of the East India Company.
From 1845 he was superintendent of the Sanskrit College (Benares) in Varanasi. He went to England in 1861 where he was elected librarian of the India Office.
Ballantyne published grammars of Sanskrit, Hindi, and Marathi, and published an edition of the Laghukaumudi of Varadarāja 1849-52 and the first part of the Mahabhashya of Patanjali in 1856, for the first time opening native Indian grammatical tradition to a wider European scholarly audience.

Works

Hindustani Grammar and Exercises, 1838Mahratta Grammar, 1839Elements of Hindu and Braj-Bhaka Grammar, 1839Hindustani Selections, 1840Pocket Guide to Hindustani Conversation, 4th ed. 1841

Persian Calligraphy, 2 ed. 1842Practical Oriental Interpreter, 1843Catechism of Sanskrit Grammar, 2 ed. 1845A Synopsis of Science from the Stand-point of the Nyáya Philosophy, 1852Christianity Contrasted with Indian Philosophy, 1859First Lessons in Sanskrit Grammar, 3 ed. 1862 The Sankhya Aphorisms of Kapila, 1885