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School of Oriental and African Studies

Grierson, Sir George


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0102 MS 380622

Held at: School of Oriental and African Studies

Title: Grierson, Sir George

Date(s): 1920-1941

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): School of Oriental Studies

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The School of Oriental Studies (later the School of Oriental and African Studies) was founded as part of the University of London to address inadequacy of teaching in Asian languages in London, and to cater for the study of Asian cultures. It opened in 1917. Its library received substantial collections of books transferred from other London institutions.

The philologist Sir George Abraham Grierson (1851-1941) joined the Indian Civil Service in 1873 and was in charge of the Linguistic Survey of India from 1898. He was a Fellow of the British Academy and member of several Asiatic, Oriental and linguistic societies. His numerous publications on the languages of India included The Linguistic Survey of India.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Correspondence and papers, 1920-1931, largely typescript, concerning the possible acquisition of Sir George Grierson's library on Oriental languages and culture by the School of Oriental Studies and other matters relating to the School; letters concerning Sir George's death, 1941.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Database.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from the School of Oriental and African Studies Library in 1988.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) holds papers on the SOAS Library book exchange, concerning arrangements with other institutions for disposition of books on Oriental studies (Ref: MS 226830).

Further correspondence and papers of Sir George Grierson are held at the British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections; Liverpool University: Special Collections and Archives; Oxford University, Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Sources: Who Was Who; Dictionary of National Biography; National Register of Archives.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Academic libraries | Libraries
Asian cultures | National cultures
Bibliology | Information/library research
Books | Publications | Communications media | Information sciences
Information/library management | Information/library administration
Library collections | Information/library administration
Asian languages
Collections

Personal names
Grierson | Sir | George Abraham | 1851-1941 | Knight | philologist

Corporate names
School of Oriental Studies

Places
Asia