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  • Linguistic Survey of India - Gipsy Languages. 
    George, A. Grierson (The Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1993-01-30)
    Migratory tribes are found all over India, and are of different kinds. Some of them, like the Pendharis, are descended from adventurers and individuals belonging to various castes and trades; others, like the Banjaras, ...
  • Linguistic Survey of India, Vol. IV, Munda and Dravidian Language 1906 
    George, A. Grierson (The Superintendent of Government Printing, India, Calcutta, 1993-01-30)
    About one-fifth of the total population of India speak languages belonging to the Munda and Dravidian families. These forms of speech have been called by anthropologists the languages of the Dravida race. If we exclude ...
  • Linguistic Survey of India- Vol.III, Dardio Or Pisacha Language Part-II,1915. 
    George, A. Grierson (The Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1915-03-20)
    The word ‘ Dard ' has a long history, and the people bearing'the name are a very Name of Sub-family Ancient tribe. They arp n^entione'd. by Herodotus,1 though not by .name, and are the-Daradfai-of Ptolemy, the Derdai of ...
  • Linguistic Survey of India- Vol.III, Indo-Aryan Family, Part-I.  
    George, A. Grierson (The Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1915-03-20)
    I am personally responsible for the preparation of both parts of this volume. It lias been built up by degrees, .some of it having been "prepared and put-in type several years ago, while other portions have been completed ...
  • Linguistic Survey of India- Vol.III, Tibeto-Burman Family, Part-I. 1909 
    George, A. Grierson (The Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1993-01-30)
    The present volume deals with the iTibeto-Burman languages of India. For convenience it has been divided into three parts, viz. :— Part I, Tibeto-Burman languages of Tibet, the Himalayas, and North Assam. Part II, the ...
  • Linguistic Survey of India- Vol.III, Tibeto-Burman Family, Part-II.  
    George, A. Grierson (The Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1993-01-30)
    These languages have vocabularies which are evidently closely related, and their grammars have also a number of special points in common. To illustrate this, I here quote Mr. Gait’s account of the salient peculiarities ...
  • Linguistic Survey of India- Vol.III, Tibeto-Burman Family, Part-III, 1904. 
    George, A. Grierson (The Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1993-01-30)
    The territory inhabited by the Kuki-Chin tribes extends from the Naga Hills in the north down into the Sandoway District of Burma in the south; Geographical distribution. £r om Myittha river in the east, almost to the ...
  • Linguistic Survey of India- Vol.IX .Western Hindi Part-I 
    George, A. Grierson (The Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1993-01-30)
    The home of Western Hindi closely agrees with the Madhyadesa, or Midland, of • ancient Sanskrit geographers. The Madhyadesa was the Geogra&h.oai Habitat. the country between the Saraswati on the west, and what is ...
  • Linguistic Survey of India- Vol.IX Indo-Aryan Family Central Group Part-II, 1908. 
    George, A. Grierson (The Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1908-02-24)
    Rajasthani means literally the language of Rajasthan, or' Rajwara, the country Name of language, where of the Rajputs. The name, as connoting a language, has spoken been invented for the purposes of this Survey, in order ...
  • Linguistic Survey of India- Vol.IX Indo-Aryan Family Central Group Part-III, 1907. 
    George, A. Grierson (The Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1993-01-30)
    P art I I I of Volume IX of the Linguistic Sur.vey is in reality a supplement to Part I I which, deals with Rajasthani and Gujarati. It is devoted to the numerous Bhil languages of Central and Western India and to the ...
  • Linguistic Survey of India- Vol.V, Indo-Aryan Family Eastern Group, Part-I.  
    George, A. Grierson (The Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1993-01-30)
    This is the language of Lower Bengal, or the region of the Gangetic Delta and of- the district's -immediately above it and to its east. It is called by those who speak it Banla or Banga-bhasha,—the ’language of Banga or ...
  • Linguistic Survey of India- Vol.V, Indo-Aryan Family Eastern Group, Part-II.  
    George, A. Grierson (The Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1993-01-30)
    Bihari means properly the language of Bihar, and is spoken over nearly the whole of that Province. It is spoken also outside its limits, but where spoken. . g cane^ akove name • f0r not only is it, as a matter of 'fact, ...
  • Linguistic Survey of India- Vol.VI, Indo-Aryan Family Mediate Group  
    George, A. Grierson (The Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1993-01-30)
    The Mediate group of Indo-Aryan vernaculars is a dialect, not of languages. It includes only one language, dialects, not of languages. It includes only one language, ms., Eastern Hindi. This language, which includes three ...

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