A Grammar of the Hindustani Language, in the Oriental and Roman Character: With Numerous Copper-Plate Illustrations of the Persian and Devanagari Systems of Alphabetic Writing (Classic Reprint) by Duncan Forbes (Paperback / softback, 2017)
Excerpt from A Grammar of the Hindustani Language, in the Oriental and Roman Character: With Numerous Copper-Plate Illustrations of the Persian and Devanagari Systems of Alphabetic Writing The following work has been compiled with a view to enable every one proceeding to India to acquire a fair kwledge of the most useful and most extensively spoken language of that country. Of late years, a new aera may be said to have com menced with regard to the study of the Hindustani language it being w imperative on every junior officer 1n the Company's service, to pass an examination in that language before he can be deemed qualified to command a tr00p, or to hold any staff appointment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.