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Title: Gurkhali Manual
Description: Bombay, Thacker & Co. 1919. 2nd Edition. Half-leather. 22x14cm, (8), 229 pp. In a recent binder's half-leather. Binding in Very Good condition. A chip & some foxing to title-page. Rubberstamps.. Musical illustrations.. Some worming to margin of last 3 pages. One page torn. Good. ¶ The last 24 pages consist of musical scores & lyrics of Gurkhali songs. Contents: The Alphabet; The Grammar: Khaskura; Magarkura; Gurungkura; Vocabularies: English-Gurkhali; Khaskura-English; Miscellaneous: Proverbs; Letter-writing; Songs; Pharse Kura; Riddles; Stories; Enlistment Questions in Gurkhali; Court Martial Questions in Gurkhali; Useful Sentences; Music.

Keywords: Indian Colonial History, Gurkha Gurkhas, Nepal Nepali, Languages Gurkha, Colonial History, Dialect Dialects, Dialectology, Gorkhali Linguistic, Eastern Pahari, Linguistics Gurkha

Price: US$ 98.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS021560I