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Grierson, George Abraham

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Grierson, George Abraham (1851–1941)

British scholar. His monumental Linguistic Survey of India 1903–18 is the first complete and correlated account of the many languages of the Indian subcontinent, and describes and classifies 179 languages and 544 dialects. Grierson also made a close study of the religions, folklore, and mythology of India. He published grammars, chrestomathies, and handbooks on several Indian languages and scripts, including Kaithi, Maithili, Bihari, Hindustani, Kashmiri, and Pisacca.

He was born in Glenageary, County Dublin, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He joined the Indian civil service 1873, and from 1898 to 1902 was superintendent in charge of the Linguistic Survey of India.



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