A concise encyclopaedia of North Indian peasant life : being a compilation from the writings of William Crooke, J.R. Reid, G.A. Grierson / edited with an introduction, annotations, and appendices by Shahid Amin.
Series: South Asian colonial archivesPublication details: New Delhi : Manohar, 2005.Description: 596 p., [14] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cmISBN:- 9788173045974
- North Indian peasant life
- Farm life -- India -- Uttar Pradesh -- Encyclopedias
- Farm life -- India -- Uttar Pradesh -- Terminology
- Farm life -- India -- Uttar Pradesh -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
- Hindustani language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
- Bhojpuri language -- India -- Āzamgarh (District) -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
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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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