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Dictionary of Indian Biography (Buckland)

Dictionary of Indian Biography G to I

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Date transcribed	2011-04-00
Transcribed by	Peter Bailey
Comment	Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

	Surnames	Growse
	First Name(s)	Frederic Salmon
	Year of Birth	1837
	Year of Death	1893
	Entry	I.C.S. : son of Robert Growse : born 1837 : educated at Oriel College, and Queen's College, Oxford (Scholar) : went to India to the N.W.P. in i860 : served in Mathura and Bulandshahr : built a Catholic Church at Mathura : wrote Mathura, a District Memoir, 1880 : and an English translation of the Ramayana of Tulsi Das, 1883 (said to occupy the place almost of a Bible among the people of the N.W. Provinces) : also Bulandshahr, 1884 : he ardently defended the purity of the vernacular Hindi, as opposed to the official Hindustani : Member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal : a learned Oriental scholar and archaeologist: C.I.E., 1879 : retired 1890 : died May 19, 1893.

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