Sir George Abhraham Grierson (1851-1941), an Irish philologist and folklorist, spent a great part of his life in British India, working as a civil servant, He qualifued for the Indian Civil Service Examination in 1871 and in 1874 joined as an officer in the Bengal Presidency.
Between 1874 and 1898, he studied extensively the language, literature and culture of the people of India, and subsiquently wrote the grammars of several Indian vernaculars, including that of Maithili. Between 1883 and 1890, Grierson's Seven Grammars of the Dialects and Sub- dialects of Bihari Language, a work in 8 volumes, was published. In 1898, he was commissioned to supervise a linguistic survey of the vernaculars spoken in India.
Today, his fame rests on the monumental work, Linguistic Survey of India, in 19 volumes, published between 1898 and 1927, and covering 364 Indian languages and dialects. The work includes specimens of spoken languages, standard and dialectical, as well as comparative vocabularies of those vernaculars. He was knighted in 1912 and awarded the Order of Merit in 1928.
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