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John Beames (21 June 1837 - May 1902) was a District Officer and Collector in the Indian Civil Service in British India, and a scholar of Indian history, literature and linguistics. His great work was a comparative grammar of Indo-Aryan languages, published in 3 volumes in 1872-1879. In his autobiography, which was not published until 1960, he describes himself as "an obscure person - an average, ordinary, middle-class Englishman".
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- B. P. Ambashthya, editor, Beames' contributions to the political geography of the subahs of Awadh, Bihar, Bengal, and Orissa in the age of Akbar. Patna: Janaki Prakashan, 1976.
- John Beames, A comparative grammar of the modern Aryan languages of India : to wit, Hindi, Panjabi, Sindhi, Gujarati, Marathi, Oriya, and Bangali. London: Trübner, 1872-1879. 3 vols.
- John Beames, Memoirs of a Bengal Civilian. London: Chatto & Windus, 1961.
- H. M. Eliot, Memoirs on the history, folk-lore, and distribution of the races of the North Western Provinces of India; revised by John Beames. London: Trübner, 1869. 2 vols.
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