Member of the Viceroy's Legislative Council,
Director-General of Statistics to the Government of India.
Being a Revised Edition, brought up to date, and incorporating the general results of the Census of 1881.
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ESSAYS ON THE SACRED LANGUAGE, WRITINGS,
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By Martin Haug, Ph.D.,
Late of the Universities of Tübingen, Göttingen, and Bonn; Superintendent of Sanskrit Studies, and Professor of Sanskrit in the Poona College.
Edited and Enlarged by Dr. E. W. West.