Linguistic Survey of India (Specimens of Thedardic Or Pisacha Languages (Including Kashmiri)) Volume Vol 8 Part 2 [Hardcover]

Name : Linguistic Survey of India (Specimens of Thedardic Or Pisacha Languages (Including Kashmiri)) Volume Vol 8 Part 2 [Hardcover]

Author : George A Grierson

Book Format : Hardcover

Genre : Reference

ISBN : 9789351283133

Language : English

Pages : 501-600 Pages

Publish Year : 2017

Publisher : Kalpaz Publications

ABOUT THE BOOK : - The Linguistic Survey of India is a comprehensive survey of the Language of British India, describing 364 languages and dialects. At the Oriental Congress held at Vienna, it was noted that the number of Indian Languages was unknown with estimates varying from twenty to 250. A resolution was passed urging the government to undertake a deliberate systematic survey of the languages of India. In 1900 the author moved to England for convenience of consulting European libraries and Scholars. By 1903 most of the data had come in. On Tibetan Languages the author worked with Sten Kono. On 8 may 1928 the completion of the Linguistic Survey of India was celebrated at the Criterion Restaurant by the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland with Lord Birkenhead. It is a monumental publication describing every known Languages and dialects of South Asian subcontinent. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:- Sir George Abraham Grierson, OM, KCIE (1851-1941) was an Irish administrator and Linguist in India. He won Prizes for studies in Sanskrit and Hindustani, become magistrate and collector at Patna. He proposed a formal Linguistic survey at the Oriental Congress in 1886 at Vienna. The congress recommended the idea to the British Government and he was appointed Superintendent of the newly created Linguistic Survey of India in 1898. He continued the work until 1928 and published the findi

Country of Origin : India