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003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OSt |
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20181119114331.0 |
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040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
Transcribing agency |
ACKU |
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
Geographic area code |
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050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
Classification number |
PK6721. |
Item number |
R394 1855 |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Raverty, H. G. (Henry George), |
Dates associated with a name |
1825-1906. |
245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
A grammar of the Pukhto, Pushto, on language of the Afghans : |
Remainder of title |
in which the rules are illustrated by examples from the best writers, both poetical and prose : together with translations from the articles of war, and remarks on the language, literature, and descent of the Afghan tribes / |
Statement of responsibility, etc |
by H. G. Raverty. |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Calcutta : |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
J. Thomas, at the Baptist Mission Press, |
Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1855. |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
2 v., various pages ; |
Dimensions |
30 cm. |
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
General note |
Includes some Pashto texts. |
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General note |
“Henry George Raverty (1825–1906) was an army officer in British India who, as a self-educated amateur scholar, made important contributions to the study of the languages, history, and cultures of India (present-day India and Pakistan) and Afghanistan. He sailed for India at the age of 15 or 16. After mastering Hindustani, Persian, Gujarati, and Marathi during his service in India, in 1849 he was transferred to Peshawar and the Northwest Frontier, where he turned his attention to Pushto and the language, history, and ethnology of Afghanistan. In 1855 he published volume one of his A Grammar of the Pukhto, Pushto, or Language of the Afgháns, which also includes a 50-page introduction on “the language, literature, and descent of the Afghan tribes.” To complete the grammar, Raverty is credited with collecting and systematizing a body of grammatical and lexical material never previously assembled. Volume two of the grammar was published in 1856. The book was produced by subscription, and the first pages of volume one list the names of the subscribers, the chief of which was the government of India, which reserved 150 copies. The beginning of volume two contains a slip reminding subscribers to pay for their copies of the book, along with the necessary postage. Presented here are both tomes, which were printed at the Baptist Mission Press in Calcutta (present-day Kolkata). The second volume is still in its original binding; the first was rebound by the Library of Congress. Raverty issued a revised second edition of the grammar in 1860, and a third edition in 1867. His other major works include a monumental Dictionary of the Pushto or Afghan Language (1860; second edition 1867), an anthology of Pushto prose and poetry in English translation entitled Gulshan i Roh (1860); another book of translations, Poetry of the Afghans from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century (1862); and Notes on Afghanistan and Baluchistan, issued in four installments between 1881 and 1888”—copied from website. |
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General note |
The Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item. |
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
Linkage |
Includes bibliographical references. |
546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
Language note |
English |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Pushto language – Grammar. |
856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
Electronic format type |
PDF |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_pk6721_r394_1855_v1">https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_pk6721_r394_1855_v1</a> |
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<a href="https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_pk6721_r394_1855_v2">https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_pk6721_r394_1855_v2</a> |
Public note |
Scanned for ACKU. |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
Koha item type |
Monograph |
Call number prefix |
azu_acku_pk6721_r394_1855 |