Hindustani Handbook Specially Prepared for Colonial Use. Lessons in grammar, key to exercises, vocabulary, and useful information on Indian religions, customs, and languages. (Devanagari and Roman scripts)
- Suva, Fiji: H. Craigie, 1931
Suva, Fiji: H. Craigie, 1931. Very Good-. Suva, Fiji: H. Craigie, 1931. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); publisher's olive green printed cloth over boards; viii,[4],290,[6],iipp. Boards rubbed and worn at margins, joints starting, contemporary ownership signature to upper cover and title page, later manuscript date (30th December, 1958) in different hand inside upper cover, fairly extensive marginalia throughout. A Good or better copy overall.
The first example of a work devoted to Fijian Hindustani, "appearing at the end of a decade during which conditions affecting the Indian population have changed rapidly. The ordinary European in contact with them has no longer, as he had in the old days, to deal largely with gangs of labourers with whom he could carry on in a jargon sufficient for the operations of plantation work" (from the preface by J.R. Pearson, Secretary of Indian Affairs in Fiji, p. [iii]).
The first example of a work devoted to Fijian Hindustani, "appearing at the end of a decade during which conditions affecting the Indian population have changed rapidly. The ordinary European in contact with them has no longer, as he had in the old days, to deal largely with gangs of labourers with whom he could carry on in a jargon sufficient for the operations of plantation work" (from the preface by J.R. Pearson, Secretary of Indian Affairs in Fiji, p. [iii]).