PIKE, John Deodatus Gregory. Edmonton, Middlesex 6.4.1784 — 4.9.1854. Rev. British Missionary in India, Pioneer of Oṛiyā Studies. Son of John Baxter Pike, a Presbyterian clergyman. In 1802-06 studies at Wymondley College, now adopted Baptism. Baptist minister in Derby from 1810. Founder of the Baptist Missionary Society. He was actively supporting…
MALTBY, Thomas James. 18?? — 1???. British Civil Servant in India. Possibly son of elder Thomas James M., who was British Vice-Consul in Brussels. Served as assistant collector of Ganjam district under Madras Presidency, later apparently superintendent. An Internet forum offers the following dramatic account signed by Roy Corduroy: “Civil…
KARPUŠKIN, Boris Mihajlovič. Moscow 1.3.1925 — 25.9.1987. Russian Indologist, Specialist of Bengalī and Oṛiyā. Son of a worker. Graduated 1951 from Moscow Institut vostokovedenija. Kand. filol. nauk 1966. In 1961-74 naučnyj sotrudnik at Institut vostokovedenija of Academy of Sciences in Moscow. In 1974-89 taught at Moscow International Insitute of Foreign…
BEAMES, John William. Greenwich 21.6.1837 — Clevedon, Somerset 24.5.1902. British Civil servant and Indologist in India, a Pioneer of Comparative NIA Studies. Served in India in 1858-93. Son of the Rev. Thomas B., educated first at Merchant Taylor’s School, then 1856-57 at Haileybury. In 1858 to India, served from March…