GREEN, Arthur Octavius

GREEN, Arthur Octavius. 1847 — Camberley, Surrey 1924. British Engineer Officer. Served in India. In 1882 participated as engineer in military expedition to Egypt, in 1884 to Sudan. Finally a Colonel.

Publications: A Practical Hindūstānī Grammar. 1-2. Oxford 1895.

Books on Arabic.

Sources: Briefly in D. Schmidt-Brücken, S. Schuster & M. Wienberg, Aspects of (Post)Colonial Linguistics. Berlin – Boston 2016; A. Safadi, The Colonial Construction of Hindustani. Diss. L. 2012, 40f. describes the 1895 book briefly characterizing it as “quite a useful work”.

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