James R. Ballantyne

James Robert Ballantyne (1813–1864) 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 (then known as Benares). He went to England in 1861 where he was elected librarian of the India Office.

Ballantyne published grammars of Sanskrit, Hindi (2nd edition, 1868), 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. Provided by Wikipedia