Bihar Peasant Life,

Being a Discursive Catalogue of the Surroundings of the people of that province, with many illustrations from photographs taken by the author.

by Sir George A. Grierson

Second and revised edition.  Patna India:  Superintendent, Government Printing, Bihar and Orissa, 1926  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD- condition.

• Dark green covers have blind tooling, gilt title. 
• Boards show some smudges, scuffing, edgewear.  Corners are bumped, scuffed.  See photos.  
• Spine has gilt text worn and is darkened with crushed, frayed ends.  See photos.
• Binding is tender, with stitches visible at many openings, some signs of splitting at top board.  
• Dark green end papers/ pastedowns show some staining on reverse, some adhesion near binding at back cover.  See photos. 
• Illustrations are clear. 
• Interior is uniformly toned, exhibits some light edgewear.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have a couple of dings that affect page corners.  See photos. 
• PS2026.0723

433 pages plus Appendix and Index. 6 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches

Second and Revised Edition.  Publisher's dark green cloth, with blind stamped frame and gilt title to top board and spine.  Wear to boards is commensurate with age.  Binding is intact but fragile.  Condition is overall Very Good Minus. 

This book is a reprint of Grierson's work published in 1885.  As the Foreword explains, the first edition (published under orders of the Government of Bengal) had been out of print for some years.  The second edition was prepared under orders of the Government of Bihar and Orissa, in consultation with Sir George Grierson, so that this "valuable book" would once again be available to government officers and to the public.

Sir George A. Grierson (1851-1941) was an Irish linguist and Indian Civil Service administrator.  He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1873, and over a 30-year career stationed primarily in Bihar, Grierson immersed himself in local languages and folklore.  Bihar Peasant Life was one of his early works; its account of everyday life among the Bihar peasantry in the second half of the 19th century received scholarly attention all over the globe.

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