George Abraham Grierson

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Sir George Abraham Grierson (7 January 1851, County Dublin, Ireland - 9 March 1941, Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom) was a famous British civil servant who spent much of his life in British India.He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1873 and was in charge of the Linguistic Survey of India from 1898.He was responsible for producing the monumental Linguistic Survey of India. He was a Fellow of the British Academy and member of several Asiatic, Oriental and linguistic societies. He wrote the grammar of Maithili among various other Indian languages.

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