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Fecha(s)
- 1858-1930 (Creación)
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Volumen y soporte
0.067 cubic metres
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Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
John Drew Bate was born in Plymouth in 1836. He trained at Regent’s Park College, London and then in 1865, sailed to India to work for the Baptist Missionary Society, the same year that he married, Beatrice Tagg. After a period in East Bengal (now… read more
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Origen del ingreso o transferencia
Some labels suggest these papers were donated to the Royal Asiatic Society by John Drew Bate's daughter, Miss E.E. Bate, at some point around 1930, though the details of their acquisition are unknown
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
Papers of John Drew Bate with some allied correspondence of his Daughter, E.E. Bate.
John Drew Bate was not only an active missionary, but also interested in the wider culture of India and, in particular, the Hindi language. These papers reflect his… read more
Sistema de arreglo
The collection has been arranged in sections separating manuscripts, sermon notes and other material, creating three different series with the first further subdivided. This the arrangement is:
- JDB/1/1 Hindi Dictionary
- JDB/1/2 Islamic Studies
- JDB/1/3 … read more
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Condiciones de acceso
Open. Please contact the archivist. The archive is open on Tuesdays and Fridays 10-5, and Thursdays 2-5. Access is to any researcher without appointment but it will help if an appointment is made via phone or email. Please bring photo ID
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Digital photography (without flash) for research purposes may be permitted upon completion of a copyright declaration form, and with respect to current UK copyright law.
Idioma del material
- inglés
- hindi
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Unidades de descripción relacionadas
The Royal Asiatic Society hold copies of "A dictionary of the Hindee language" (1918, 2nd edition) and "Notes on the Hindi language" (1875) both authored by John Drew Bate
A folder of the papers of John Drew Bate are held by the Angus Library, Regent's Park College, Oxford
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Nota del archivista
The descriptions were created by Nancy Charley, Archivist at the Royal Asiatic Society, in 2015. The original order of the material was unknown and therefore it was arranged according to the different types of material of which the collection is comprised
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Autobiographical information was sourced from