Description: An English-Hindustani Vocabulary for Higher Standard and Proficiency Candidates or "The Right Word in the Right Place." by Lieut.-Colonel D.C. Phillott. Published in Calcutta by the Baptist Mission Press. 1917, Second Edition, Enlarged, 334pp, 7 x 10", 8vo, hardcover edition. In fair condition with some hinge-wear and age-related wear. Some rubbing to the extremities and bumping to the spine. Slight breakage in the hinges, binding is loose. Some age-related toning and foxing to the pages. The previous owner's black-inked faculty stamp is on the title page, along with some pen writing on the preface page. The back hinges are also cracked. Please see our photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. A rare early twentieth century linguistic study of Hindustani, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Deccan, Northern India and Pakistan, and is used as the lingua franca in both countries. It is a pluricentric language with two standard registers, known as Hindi and Urdu, thus it is also called Hindi-Urdu. This book was written by Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas Craven Phillott (1860-1930), a British army officer who served in India; he was a scholar and translator of Urdu, Persian and Hindustani. This specific book once resided in the prestigious library of language scholar Johannes Rahder (1898-1988). Rahder was a Dutch Orientalist and professor of Japanese at the University of Leiden from 1931 through 1946, and at Yale University from 1947 through 1965. He was depicted in the work of the legendary Langston Hughes' (1901-1967) 'I Wonder, I Wander'. After a brief meeting between the two figures on the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1933, Hughes recognized Rahder as being a "...famous authority on obscure Oriental languages". Rahder's black-inked Yale University faculty stamp and pen markings can be found throughout this folio. FORN-SHELF-0750-BB-0424-eb0706
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: Calcutta
Language: English & Hindustani
Author: Liet.-Colonel D.C. Phillott
Publisher: Baptist Mission Press
Topic: Language Study
Country/Region of Manufacture: India
Subject: Reference
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1917
