Covering all aspects of North Indian peasant life, this glossary provides detailed definitions of all known terms associated with rural life of the area. Amin has supplemented Crooke's work with six appendices that describe terms used in the construction of masonary wells, and associated agricultural cermonies, cloth and clothes, and various calenders used by North Indian peasants, as well as a detailed historical introduction.
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Covering all aspects of North Indian peasant life, this glossary provides detailed definitions of all known terms associated with rural life of the area. Amin has supplemented Crooke's work with six appendices that describe terms used in the construction of masonary wells, and associated agricultural cermonies, cloth and clothes, and various calenders used by North Indian peasants, as well as a detailed historical introduction.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 356 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Book is clean and tight, jacket has some very light shelf wear.
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12pp plates. Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. Liv, 290, (12)pp, 22x14cm, 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 organization, village technology, peasant studies, and Third World societies"-Publisher's description.
