Alexander Kinloch Forbes

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Alexander Kinloch Forbes (1821-1865) was a scholar of the Gujarati language and a colonial administrator in British India. In 1848 he started the Gujarat Vernacular Society in Ahmedabad, which contributed to a literary renaissance in Gujarati. His work Ras Mala, published in two volumes in 1856, documented the history and folk literature of Gujarat. The Farbas Gujarati Sabha, a modern learned body devoted to study of the Gujarati language, is named after him.

[edit] Selected works

  • Ras Mala : Hindoo Annals of the Province of Goozerat in Western India. 2 volumes; first published 1856; reprinted 1997.


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