India Hindi Panjabi LINGUISTIC SURVEY Indo Aryan 1963 Dialects Language Colonial

by G. A. Grierson

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.no-subscribe { display: none} [contenteditable] { pointer-events: none; } Linguistic Survey of India, Vol. IX, Part I Indo-Aryan Family Central Group Specimens of Western Hindi and Panjabi by G. A. Grierson Published by Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1963. Second Printing. Ex-Library with usual markings, from Brown University. Good hardcover, no dustjacket as issued. Tight binding, solid spine, edge bumps and bumped corners, clean unmarked text. Large 4to, color fold-out map has small tears, 824 pages. A foundational work in Indian linguistics, was issued in its second printing in 1963 by Motilal Banarsidass, a Delhi-based publisher. Grierson (1851–1941), an Irish linguist and Indian Civil Service member, compiled this volume as part of his monumental Linguistic Survey of India (1898–1928), a 21-volume project documenting 364 languages and dialects of British India. First published in 1916, this massive volume focuses on Western Hindi and Panjabi, key languages of the Indo-Aryan Central Group, and reflects Grierson’s effort to map India’s linguistic diversity during colonial rule. The 1963 reprint, authorized by the Government of India, emerged amid post-independence efforts to preserve and study India’s linguistic heritage, a time when the 1961 Census recorded 1,652 mother tongues. It includes detailed grammatical analyses, phonetic descriptions, and specimen texts of Western Hindi dialects (e.g., Hindustani, Braj Bhasha) and Panjabi, alongside comparative vocabulary lists. Gr

• Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
• Year: 1963
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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