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. Beames was a man of strong opinions and was often in trouble with the authorities because of his outspokenness. He thought little of Lieutenant-Governors as a class. But his special dislike was reserved for Sir Richard Temple, Lt. Governor of Bengal, whose vanity and self-glorification he couldn't stand. There were instances when Beames stood by the people against tyranny. But, ironically enough, he also shared the casual racism of his peers and did not recognise Indian ICS officers as his academic and cultural equals: he strongly distrusted the Bengali intelligentsia. Beames was a pioneer philologist. A magnum opus of his is the three volume Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India (1872-79). Other works of his include Outline of Indian Philology (1867) and Grammar for the Bengali Language (1891). He knew a number of languages including Persian, Sanskrit, Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi, and Hindi and had a working knowledge of German, French and Italian. Beames started writing his Memoirs in 1875 but completed the task only after retirement, in England. His outspokenness which held him down in his career is his chief strength as a writer and tremendously enhances the value of his estimates of men and affairs of his time.
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Author: John Beames
Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Imprint: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Weight: 0.700kg
ISBN: 9789388540995
ISBN 10: 9388540999
Pages: 311
Publication Date: 01 November 2025
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Table of Contents
Introduction by Philip Mason 7 Preface II CHAPTER I Ancestors II Childhood, 1837-1844 26 III Merchant Taylors', 1847-1855. 42 IV Haileybury, 1856-1857 57 V Leaving for India, 1858 72 VI Calcutta, 1858-1859 79 VII Panjab-Gujrat, 1859 92 VIII Marriage, 1860 109 IX Ambala and Ludiana, 1861 120 X Shahabad and Purnea, 1861-1862 118 XI Purnea, 1862-1864 146 XII Purnea, 1865-1866 '59 XIII Champaran, 1866-1867 170 XIV Home Leave, 1868 i86 XV Balasore, 1869-1870 190 XVI Balasore, 1871-1873 206 XVII Cuttack, 1873. 217 XVIII Cuttack, 1874 229 XIX Cuttack, 1875-1877 247 XX Chittagong, 1878-1879 275 Epilogue by Christopher Cooke 301 Map 307 Index .308
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John Beames (1837-1902) spent most of his working life in Bihar, Orissa and Bengal. He came to India in August 1858: the mutiny had not yet been fully quelled. Before he retired in 1893, he had risen to be a Commissioner administering a few districts and for a short time held a seat on the Bengal Board of Revenue.
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