Author: GRIERSON, GEORGE ABRAHAM:
Title: Bih‹r Peasant Life, being a Discursive Catalogue of the Surroundings of the People of that Province. Prepared under Orders of the Government of Bengal. Calcutta, the Bengal Secretariat Press, 1885.
Description: . Tall 8vo. Pp. (iv), 4, (2), 7, vi, 428, appendix xvii, index clv. With one coloured map as frontispiece, 39 full page lithographed plates and many illustrations in the text after photographs taken by the author. Original blue cloth, spine ends chipped and part of upper hinge split. Ex. museum library copy. With old inscription on title by Reinhold Rost (German Orientalist, chief librarian at the India Office). First edition. A comprehensive dictionary listing and explaining names and words connected with rural life in Bihar, a state in eastern India. It covers in detail agriculture, animal husbandry, housing, clothing, trade and money-dealing, etc. The Bihar words are given in native characters with English transliteration.Grierson was an Irish-born linguist who served for many years in British India. He would eventually become Magistrate and Collector at Patna and, later, Opium Agent for Bihar. He was appointed Superintendent of the newly formed Linguistic survey of India and moved to England "for convenience of consulting European libraries and scholars".

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