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Art. IV.—Hints to Oriental Students: No. 1.1 Some Useful Hindā Books

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

G. A. Grierson
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It has often struck me how helpless European students are when they are in search of books published in India. These books are so cheap, and their demand in Europe is so limited, that it does not pay Indian publishers to have agents for their sale here. In addition to this, students have no means of knowing what works are published in India; and even if they knew their names, that is no criterion of the value of their contents. I therefore put down the following notes regarding books which I myself have found useful in studying Hindī, in the hope that they may be acceptable to my fellowstudents.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , January 1887 , pp. 138 - 144
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1887

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page 138 note 2 This address will find him, if he is written to. So for the other names subsequently given. As a rule, in India, authors sell their own books.

page 139 note 1 Not ‘Doctor of Medicine’ as the Saturday Review maintained when it reviewed a translation of one of this poet's sonnets.

page 140 note 1 I should mention that many of the above books can also be had in the Kaithī character.