Bihār peasant life,
being a discursive catalogue of the surroundings of the people of that province, with many illustrations from photographs taken by the author.
Prepared, under orders of the Government of Bengal, by George Abraham Grierson.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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Calcutta, The Bengal secretariat press; 1885.
- Note
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"A large part of this edition was destroyed, so that the book is of the extremest rarity." - C. R. Lanman in the Journal of the American Oriental society, v. 40, p. 238.
"A catalogue of the names used by the Bihār peasant for the things surrounding him in his daily life ... To relieve the dryness which such a mere list would possess, the writer has attempted to give a description ... of that life." - Introd.
- Physical Description
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2 p. ℓ., 4 p., 7 numb. 1., vi, 431, xvii, clv p.
front. (map), plates, diagrs.
26 cm.
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