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George Abraham Grierson

Index George Abraham Grierson

Sir George Abraham Grierson (7 January 1851 – 9 March 1941) was an Irish administrator and linguist in British India. [1]

44 relations: Advaita Vedanta, Albert Étienne Jean Baptiste Terrien de Lacouperie, Bankipore, Bengal Presidency, Bhakti, Bihar, British Newspaper Archive, British Raj, Camberley, Cecil Bendall, County Dublin, Criterion Restaurant, Doctor of Letters, Dr. George Grierson Award, Dublin, Frederick William Thomas (philologist), George Grierson (printer), Glenageary, Gypsy Lore Society, Herbert Hope Risley, Hindi, Hindustani language, Honorary degree, Indian Civil Service (British India), Karl Bühler, Linguistic Survey of India, Linguistics, List of linguists, Max Müller, Monier Monier-Williams, Nagari Pracharini Sabha, Order of Merit, Order of the Indian Empire, Patna, Ralph Lilley Turner, Robert Atkinson (philologist), Robert Needham Cust, Sanskrit, Shrewsbury School, St Bees School, Sten Konow, Theodore Duka, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin.

Advaita Vedanta

Advaita Vedanta (अद्वैत वेदान्त, IAST:, literally, "not-two"), originally known as Puruṣavāda, is a school of Hindu philosophy and religious practice, and one of the classic Indian paths to spiritual realization.

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Albert Étienne Jean Baptiste Terrien de Lacouperie

Albert Étienne Jean Baptiste Terrien de Lacouperie (23 November 1844 in Ingouville, Le Havre – 11 October 1894 in London) was a French orientalist, specialising in comparative philology.

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Bankipore

Bankipur is a neighbourhood and residential area in Patna in the Indian state of Bihar.

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Bengal Presidency

The Bengal Presidency was once the largest subdivision (presidency) of British India, with its seat in Calcutta (now Kolkata).

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Bhakti

Bhakti (भक्ति) literally means "attachment, participation, fondness for, homage, faith, love, devotion, worship, purity".

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Bihar

Bihar is an Indian state considered to be a part of Eastern as well as Northern India.

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British Newspaper Archive

The British Newspaper Archive web site provides access to searchable digitised archives of British newspapers.

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British Raj

The British Raj (from rāj, literally, "rule" in Hindustani) was the rule by the British Crown in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947.

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Camberley

Camberley is a town in Surrey, England, southwest of Central London, between the M3 and M4 motorways.

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Cecil Bendall

Cecil Bendall (1 July 1856 – 14 March 1906) was an English scholar, professor of Sanskrit at University College London and later at the University of Cambridge.

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County Dublin

County Dublin (Contae Bhaile Átha Cliath or Contae Átha Cliath) is a county in Ireland.

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Criterion Restaurant

The Criterion Restaurant is an opulent restaurant complex facing Piccadilly Circus in the heart of London.

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Doctor of Letters

Doctor of Letters (D.Litt., Litt.D., D. Lit., or Lit. D.; Latin Litterarum Doctor or Doctor Litterarum) is an academic degree, a higher doctorate which, in some countries, may be considered to be beyond the Ph.D. and equal to the Doctor of Science (Sc.D. or D.Sc.). It is awarded in many countries by universities and learned bodies in recognition of achievement in the humanities, original contribution to the creative arts or scholarship and other merits.

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Dr. George Grierson Award

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of and largest city in Ireland.

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Frederick William Thomas (philologist)

Frederick William Thomas (21 March 1867 – 6 May 1956), usually cited as F. W. Thomas, was an English Indologist and Tibetologist.

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George Grierson (printer)

George Grierson (c. 1678 – 1753) was a Scottish-born printer and publisher in Dublin, Ireland, whose descendants continued in the book trade in Dublin for several generations.

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Glenageary

Glenageary is an area in the suburbs of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland.

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Gypsy Lore Society

The Gypsy Lore Society was founded in Great Britain in 1888 to unite persons interested in the history and lore of Gypsies and rovers and to establish closer contacts among scholars studying aspects of such cultures.

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Herbert Hope Risley

Sir Herbert Hope Risley (4 January 1851 – 30 September 1911) was a British ethnographer and colonial administrator, a member of the Indian Civil Service who conducted extensive studies on the tribes and castes of the Bengal Presidency.

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Hindi

Hindi (Devanagari: हिन्दी, IAST: Hindī), or Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: मानक हिन्दी, IAST: Mānak Hindī) is a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language.

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Hindustani language

Hindustani (हिन्दुस्तानी, ہندوستانی, ||lit.

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Honorary degree

An honorary degree, in Latin a degree honoris causa ("for the sake of the honor") or ad honorem ("to the honor"), is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived the usual requirements, such as matriculation, residence, a dissertation and the passing of comprehensive examinations.

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Indian Civil Service (British India)

The Indian Civil Service (ICS) for part of the 19th century officially known as the Imperial Civil Service, was the elite higher civil service of the British Empire in British India during British rule in the period between 1858 and 1947.

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Karl Bühler

Karl Ludwig Bühler (27 May 1879 – 24 October 1963) was a German psychologist and linguist.

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Linguistic Survey of India

The Linguistic Survey of India, often referred to as the LSI, is a comprehensive survey of the languages of British India, describing 364 languages and dialects.

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Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language, and involves an analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context.

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List of linguists

A linguist in the academic sense is a person who studies natural language (an academic discipline known as linguistics).

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Max Müller

Friedrich Max Müller (6 December 1823 – 28 October 1900), generally known as Max Müller, was a German-born philologist and Orientalist, who lived and studied in Britain for most of his life.

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Monier Monier-Williams

Sir Monier Monier-Williams, KCIE (né Williams; 12 November 1819 – 11 April 1899) was the second Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University, England.

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Nagari Pracharini Sabha

The Nagari Pracharini Sabha (Society for Promotion of Nagari), also known as Kashi Nagari Pracharini Sabha, was an organization founded in 1893 at the Queen's College, Varanasi for the promotion of the Devanagari script over the more common Kaithi script.

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Order of Merit

The Order of Merit (Ordre du Mérite) is an order of merit recognising distinguished service in the armed forces, science, art, literature, or for the promotion of culture.

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Order of the Indian Empire

The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire is an order of chivalry founded by Queen Victoria in 1878.

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Patna

Patna is the capital and largest city of the state of Bihar in India.

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Ralph Lilley Turner

Sir Ralph Lilley Turner MC (5 October 1888 – 22 April 1983) was an English Indian languages philologist and university administrator.

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Robert Atkinson (philologist)

Robert Atkinson (6 April 1839 – 10 January 1908) was an Anglo-Irish academic, known as a philologist and textual scholar.

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Robert Needham Cust

Robert Needham Cust (24 February 1821 – 27 October 1909) was a British administrator and judge in colonial India apart from being an Anglican evangelist and linguist.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism; and a former literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval India.

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Shrewsbury School

Shrewsbury School is an English co-educational independent school for pupils aged 13 to 18 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, founded by Edward VI in 1552 by Royal Charter.

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St Bees School

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Sten Konow

Sten Konow. Sten Konow (17 April 1867 – 29 June 1948) was a Norwegian Indologist.

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Theodore Duka

Theodore Duka or Duka Tivadar (22 June 1825 – 5 May 1908) was a Hungarian army officer, who later became a doctor in England and worked in India on various topics, especially philology.

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Trinity College Dublin

Trinity College (Coláiste na Tríonóide), officially the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, is the sole constituent college of the University of Dublin, a research university located in Dublin, Ireland.

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University of Dublin

The University of Dublin (Ollscoil Átha Cliath), corporately designated the Chancellor, Doctors and Masters of the University of Dublin, is a university located in Dublin, Ireland.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Abraham_Grierson

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