SMALL, George. 1??? — 1???. Rev. Baptist Missionary in India. M.A. Worked in Calcutta and Benares, retired for health reasons in the early 1860s (another source: 1852). Married 1852 Ann Chadwick (née Lovegrove). In the Preface to his Sanskrit Literature the author admits to have collected his material from Indological books. According to his 1895 grammar he was formerly missionary, then teacher of Oriental languages in London.
Publications: A Handbook of Sanskrit Literature: With Appendices Descriptive of the Mythology, Castes, and Religious Sects of the Hindus. Intended Especially for Candidates for the India Civil Service, and Missionaries to India. 19+207 p. Edinburgh 1866.
– The Totā-Kahānī; or Tales of a Parrot, translated from Saiyid Ḥaidar Bakhsh’s Hindūstānī Version of Muḥammad Qāsim’s Persian Abridgment of Nakhshabī’s Tūtī Nāma. L. 1875.
– New edition of the Naval Dictionary of Roebuck and Smyth as A Laskarī Dictionary or Anglo–Indian Vocabulary of Nautical Terms. L. 1882.
– A grammar of the Urdū or Hindūstānī language in its romanized character. 19+205 p. Calcutta 1895.
– With others: Anglo-Urdu Handbook; or, Hindustani Guide for the Use of Medical Practitioners in Northern India. Calcutta 1895.
Sources: Stray notes in Internet.
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