A Mundari English Dictionary

About the Book:-The author reveals that the Mundari English Dictionary is a byproduct of the master researchers and scintillating scholarship of Sarat Chandra Roy, whose anthropological work on the Mundas of Chotanagpur and Santal Parganas remains unsurpassed even till today. His compilation of about six hundred words of Mundari language in a note book contained the seed out of which this dictionary has flourished. On the eve of its compilation about fifty years ago, Mundari language was spoken by over 60,000 Mundas and other akin tribals. The dialects of the Mundari family of speech, to which Santa, Birhar and other tongues belong, are, besides Chotanagpur, also spoken in the Santal Parganas which adjoin some of the Bengal districts. It is on account of this geographical spread over of the Mundari family of speech that a large number of words from Bengali, Hindi and Sanskrit have crept into the fabric of the Mundari language. A lot of painstaking efforts have gone in coming the English equivalents of the tribal Mundari language. Despite a lot of transformation in the tribal world of the Mundas, there appears to be no depreciation in the value and relevance of his master dictionary for the anthropologists, linguists and administrators engaged in the onerous task of tribal studies. The subject of this book is Anthropology/Tribal Studies. About the Author:- Late Manindra Bhushan Bhaduri, author of ‘A Mundari English Dictionary’, was resident of Khunti, in Jharkhand state of India. Co-authored with Sarat Chandra Roy, this master dictionary of Mundari language is a valuable resource for the anthropologists, linguists and administrators engaged in the Chhotanagpur and Santal Parganas tribal studies.Sarat Chandra Roy (1871–1942) was an Indian scholar of anthropology. He is widely regarded as the father of Indian ethnography, the first Indian ethnographer, and as the first Indian anthropologist. His interest into the plight of the ‘tribal’ people developed in the course of his visits as a lawyer, in the interior areas of the Chota Nagpur Division. He was deeply moved by the plight of the Munda, Oraon and other tribal groups, who were subjected to the continued oppression by an apathetic colonial administration and by a general contempt towards them in courts of law, as ‘upper-caste’ Hindu lawyers had little knowledge of their customs, religions, customary laws and languages. The Title 'A Mundari English Dictionary written/authored/edited by Manindra Bhusan Bhaduri', published in the year 2020. The ISBN 9788121244657 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 248 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English, Mundri. The subject of this book is . Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol:-