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Dictionary of Indian Biography M to R

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Date transcribed	2011-08-00
Transcribed by	Peter Bailey
Comment	Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

	Surname	Raverty
	First Name(s)	Henry George
	Birth Year	1825
	Entry	Born May 31, 1825 : son of Peter Raverty, of Tyrone co., Surgeon, R.N. : his grandfather was O' Raverty : educated at Falmouth and Penzance : entered the E. I. Co.'s 3rd Bombay Infantry, 1843 : Major, 1863 : retired, 1864 : at the siege of Multan, 1848 : in the Panjab campaign, 1849-50 : at Gujarat : in the first frontier expedition, 1850, against tribes on the Swat border : wrote, and illustrated, an account of the District of Peshawar, 1849- 50 : Assistant Commissioner in the Panjab, 1852-9 : highly proficient in Oriental languages : wrote a Pushto grammar 1855 : a thesaurus of Hindustani-English technical terms, 1859 : Pushto prose and poetical selections : Pushto-English dictionary : Afghan poetry, 16th to 19th century, with English translation : Aesop's Fables in Pushto : Translation of the Tabakat-i-Nasiri, i.e. a general history of Muhammadan dynasties in Asia, 810- 1260, a.d. : Notes on Afghanistan and Beluchistan, 1888 : numerous articles on geography, history, and ethnology in the J.A.S.B., 1854-1905 : engaged on a History of Herat and its Dependencies and Annals of Khurasan from its Conquest by the Muhammadans, and three other works on Eastern History.

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