Sir George Abraham Grierson (7 January 1851, Glenageary, County Dublin, Ireland - 9 March 1941, Camberley, County Dublin, Ireland, United Kingdom) was a famous British civil servant who spent much of his life in British India. He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1873 and was in charge of the Linguistic Survey of India from 1898. He was responsible for producing the monumental Linguistic Survey of India, an important work in the history of sociolinguistics research in India which took 30 years to complete nd whose results were published in 11 volumes between 1903-1928.^[1] He was a Fellow of the British Academy and member of several Asiatic, Oriental and linguistic societies. He wrote the grammar of Maithili among various other Indian languages. He married Lucy Elizabeth Jean Collis (born 1853, Dublin, Ireland; died 19th February, 1943, at Rathfarnham, Camberley, County Dublin, Ireland); they were married 14th September, 1880; they had no children (s.p.). is the 7th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1851 (MDCCCLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Glenageary (Gleann na gCaorach in Irish, meaning Glen of the Berries) is an area in the suburbs of South County Dublin, Ireland; officially part of the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council electoral area. ... Statistics Province: Leinster County Town: Dublin Code: D Area: 921 km² Population (2006) 1,186,821 County Dublin (Irish: Contae Bhaile Átha Cliath), or more correctly today the Dublin Region[1] (Réigiúin Átha Cliath), is the area that contains the city of Dublin, the capital and largest city... is the 68th day of the year (69th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... , Camberley is a town in Surrey, England, situated southwest of central London, in the corridor between the M3 and M4 motorways. ... Dublin (Irish Áth Cliath) is the area that contains the City of Dublin, the capital and largest city of the Republic of Ireland; and the counties of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin. ... Anthem God Save The Queen/King British India, circa 1860 Capital Calcutta (1858-1912), New Delhi (1912-1947) Language(s) Hindi, Urdu, English and many others Government Monarchy Emperor of India  - 1877-1901 Victoria  - 1901-1910 Edward VII  - 1910-1936 George V  - January-December 1936 Edward VIII  - 1936-1947 George... Sociolinguistic research in India is the study of how the Indian society affects and is impacted by the languages of the country. ... Maithili is of the family of Indo-Aryan languages, which are part of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. ...

Publications

• Grierson, George Abraham. A Dictionary of the Kashmiri Language. Calcutta: Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1932.

References

1. ^ McConnell, Grant D. (1991). A Macro-Sociolinguistic Analysis of Language Vitality: Geolinguistic Profiles and Scenarios of Language Contact in India. Sainte-Foy: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 13. ISBN 9782763772844. 

External Links

1. Banglapedia
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4. Sir George Grierson's books on Amazon
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6. Photos of Sir George Grierson
7. ~ King's Printers to Ireland
8. Irish Counterparts in his Grierson Origins, by David Alan Grierson, 1960 (aka Lyon)