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.

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.

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Author / Creator:Grierson, George Abraham, Sir, 1851-1941.
Imprint:Calcutta, The Bengal secretariat press; London, Trübner and Co., 1885.
Description:2 preliminary leaves, 4 pages, 7 1., vi, 431, xvii, clv pages frontispiece (map), plates, diagrams 26 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Manners and customs.
Bihar and Orissa (India) -- Social life and customs.
India -- Bihar and Orissa.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2125332
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Notes:"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."--Introduction.
"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.
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Other form:Online version: Grierson, George Abraham, Sir, 1851-1941. Bihār peasant life. Calcutta, The Bengal secretariat press; London, Trübner and co., 1885

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