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Asia Law House A Glossary Of Judicial And Revenue Terms, And Of Useful Words Occurring In Official Documents by M V Durga Prasad
A Glossary of Judicial and Revenue Terms, and of Useful Words Occurring in Official Documents Relating to the Administration of the Government of British India, from the Arabic, Persian, Hindustani, Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali, Uriya, Marathi, Guzarathi, Telugu, Karnata, Tamil, Malayalam, and Other Languages. Compiled and Published under the Authority of the Honorable the Court of Directors of the East-India Company. By H. H Wilson, M.A. F.R.S. The numerous documents relating to the administration of the government of India by the East-India Company which have been printed, and the still more voluminous correspondence which remains in manuscript, have, from the earliest to the most recent dates, been thickly studded with terms adopted from .he vernacular languages of the country, and commonly inserted without any explanation of their purport Various reasons may be assigned for a practice which, to say the least of it, is attended with considerable perplexity to those who have not studied the languages of India at all, and is not free from embarrassment even to many by whom those languages have been in part only, or imperfectly acquired.