About this title: 100 years ago William Crooke, a pioneer colonial ethnographer and historian with the Indian Civil Service, compiled but never published this glossary, a manuscript of which was recently discovered in London by the editor. Exploring all aspects of North Indian peasant life, including agricultural implements and operations, domestic utensils and animals, irrigation, soils, insect pests, labor advances and wages, the native house, weights and measures, food, ceremonies, trade, and land tenures, this comprehensive glossary provides, in over 800 numbered paragraphs, detailed definitions of all ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780195622096ISBN:019562209X
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 356 p. Contains: Illustrations. Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Binding: HC
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780195622096ISBN:019562209X
Description: 12 B&W and color ill. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) 290pp. ISBN 019562209X Edited, with an Introduction, Appendices and Notes by Shahid Amin. Crooke's Glossary is perhaps the best companion available for information on the peasantry and village life of north India. Arranged thematically, it covers the economic, agricultural, material, domestic and ritual life of the country's peasants by defining all the local words connected with these aspects of rustic existence. read more
Binding: orig. cloth
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Delhi
Date Published: 1989
Description: 12pp plates. Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 22x14cm, liv, 290, (12)pp, Edited, with an introduction, notes, and appendices by Shahid Amin. An enlarged edition of "Materials for a rural and agricultural glossary of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh" (1879). ["William Crooke of the Indian Civil Service is remembered as a pioneering colonial ethnographer and historian. His Glossary will be an invaluable work of reference to every scholar of South Asian history, sociology, social and economic ... read more
Description: Reprint of the 1879 Allahabad edition of: MATERIALS FOR A RURAL AND AGRICULTURAL GLOSSARY OF THE NORTH-WESTERN PROVINCES AND OUDH. Edited, with an Introduction, Notes and Appendices by Shahid Amin. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1989, 290 pp., 12 illus. in color and b&w. In Dj. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: OUP India
Date Published: 01/08/1989
ISBN-13:9780195622096ISBN:019562209X
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