A concise encyclopaedia of North Indian peasant life : being a compilation from the writings of William Crooke, J.R. Reid, G.A. Grierson / North Indian peasant life edited with an introduction, annotations, and appendices by Shahid Amin. - New Delhi : Manohar, 2005. - 596 p., [14] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. - South Asian colonial archives ; .

Previously published: A glossary of north Indian peasant life. Delhi : Oxford, 1989.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231) and index.

pt. 1. Being the text of William Crooke's Materials for a rural and agricultural glossary of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh (Allahabad, 1879) : together with annotations, appendices, and index by the editor -- pt. 2. Materials on peasant production from J.R. Reid's Azamgarh settlement report (Allahabad, 1881) -- pt. 3. Selections frm the Bhojpuri dialect : conversations, fables, Bhojpuri songs from G.A. Grierson, Seven grammars of the dialects and subdialects of the Bihari language (Calcutta, 1884), part II, appendix I.

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Farm life--India--Uttar Pradesh--Encyclopedias.
Farm life--India--Uttar Pradesh--Terminology.
Farm life--History--India--Uttar Pradesh--19th century--Sources.
Hindustani language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Bhojpuri language--India--Ä€zamgarh (District)--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

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