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Date transcribed2011-05-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Long    
First Name(s)  James    
Titles  Rev.    
Year of Birth  1814    
Year of Death  1887    
Entry  Born in 1814 : passed some time in Russia : ordained in 1839 : went to India in 1846 as a Missionary of the Church Missionary Society : stationed near Calcutta : in 1861 he wrote a preface to, and superintended the translation of, the Nil Darpan, a Bengali play, directed against the indigo planters. Padre Long, as he was called, was indicted for libel, and sentenced to Rs. 1,000 fine and a month's imprisonment. He wrote a number of works, chiefly connected with Bengal, its people, language and literature, Calcutta and its history, but also on wider questions of Indian politics. He was F.R.G.S. and member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal : returned to England in 1872 : wrote Eastern Proverbs and Emblems, illustrating Old Truths, for Trubner's Oriental series : died March 23, 1887.     
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