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. Beames was a man of strong opinions and was often in trouble with the authorities because of his outspokenness. He thought little of Lieutenant-Governors as a class. But his special dislike was reserved for Sir Richard Temple, Lt. Governor of Bengal, whose vanity and self-glorification he couldn't stand. There were instances when Beames stood by the people against tyranny. But, ironically enough, he also shared the casual racism of his peers and did not recognise Indian ICS officers as his academic and cultural equals: he strongly distrusted the Bengali intelligentsia. Beames was a pioneer philologist. A magnum opus of his is the three volume Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India (1872-79). Other works of his include Outline of Indian Philology (1867) and Grammar for the Bengali Language (1891). He knew a number of languages including Persian, Sanskrit, Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi, and Hindi and had a working knowledge of German, French and Italian. Beames started writing his Memoirs in 1875 but completed the task only after retirement, in England. His outspokenness which held him down in his career is his chief strength as a writer and tremendously enhances the value of his estimates of men and affairs of his time.
Contents
Introduction by Philip Mason 7
Preface II
CHAPTER I Ancestors
II Childhood, 1837-1844 26
III Merchant Taylors', 1847-1855. 42
IV Haileybury, 1856-1857 57
V Leaving for India, 1858 72
VI Calcutta, 1858-1859 79
VII Panjab-Gujrat, 1859 92
VIII Marriage, 1860 109
IX Ambala and Ludiana, 1861 120
X Shahabad and Purnea, 1861-1862 118
XI Purnea, 1862-1864 146 XII Purnea, 1865-1866 '59
XIII Champaran, 1866-1867 170
XIV Home Leave, 1868 i86
XV Balasore, 1869-1870 190
XVI Balasore, 1871-1873 206
XVII Cuttack, 1873. 217
XVIII Cuttack, 1874 229
XIX Cuttack, 1875-1877 247
XX Chittagong, 1878-1879 275
Epilogue by Christopher Cooke 301
Map 307
Index .308
