About the Book:-This book, written by the onetime British Resident in Nepal, is a collection of essays that he wrote on the linguistics and ethnology of the people residing in hills and foothills of east India, Nepal, and the bordering area of Tibet, and sent as contributing articles to many of the learned journals of that time. The book is in two volumes, and offers observations on the language and linguistic properties, as well as the location, customs, general description of the Kocch, Bodo, and Dhimal tribes (found in Assam). This volume has other articles of the language, linguistics, and comparative glossaries of the dialects found in Nepal; the Kiranti language; the Vayu language; the Bahing dialect etc. The volume ends with notices on the Vayu or Hayu, and the Kiranti tribes. The second volume has 14 sections, wherein the reader will find chapters on tribes of eastern and north-eastern India, the Indo-China borderers, the Mongolian affinities, Tibetans, central India, Nepal, Law and Police, the native method of making paper, etc. This book is a reprint of the 1880 edition.
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