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Dictionary of Indian Biography G to I
Date transcribed | 2011-04-00 | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work. |
| Surnames | Griffith | | First Name(s) | Ralph Thomas Hotchkin | | Year of Birth | 1826 | | Entry | Born May 25, 1826 : son of Rev. R. C. Griffith : educated at Warminster, Uppingham and Queen's College, Oxford : University Boden Sanskrit Scholar : Assistant Master, Marlborough, 1849-53 : Professor of English Literature, Benares College, 1854-62 : Principal of Benares College, 1863-78 : Director of Public Instruction, N.W.P., and Oudh, 1878-85 : retired, 1885 : author of Specimens of Old Indian Poetry, 1852 ; The Birth of the War-God, 1853 ; Idylls from the Sanskrit, 1866 ; Scenes' from the Ramayan, 1868 ; The Ramayan of Valmiki, 1870-5 ; The Hymns of the Rig-veda, 1889-92 ; The Hymns of the Atharva-veda, 1895-6; The Texts of the White Yajur-veda, 1899 : founder and editor of the Pandit, a Sanskrit journal, for eight years : C.I.E., 1885 |
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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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