Hardev Bahri Explained
Hardev Bahri, also Bahari; 1907—2000) was an Indian linguist, literary critic, and lexicographer of the 20th century, notable for his work in Hindi, Punjabi, and other related Indo-Aryan languages. He compiled numerous monolingual and bilingual dictionaries for both general and technical purposes in collaboration with the publisher Rajpal and Sons.[1]
Life
Bahri was born on 1 January 1907 in Talagang,[2] near Attock, Punjab, then part of the British Raj.
He obtained his Ph.D. from Panjab University. Likely due to the Partition of India, he migrated to Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh and became a professor in the Department of Hindi at the University of Allahabad, where in 1959 he also earned his Doctor of Letters for his seminal work Hindi Semantics. He occupied that post for over two decades, pursuing academic research in both theoretical and applied linguistics as well as literary criticism.[1]
He died on 31 March 2000.
Works
- Book: Hindī kī Kavya Śailiyoñ kā Vikās. Development of Poetic Style of Hindi. 1947. Hindi. Hardev Bahri.
- Book: Prākŕt aur Uskā Sāhitya. Prakrit and its Literature. 1952. Hindi. Hardev Bahri. 1.
- Book: Hindī Sāhitya kī Rūprekhā. Outline of Hindi Literature. 1955. Hindi. Hardev Bahri. 1.
- Book: Prasād Sāhitya Koś. Collection of Prasad's Literature. 1957. Hindi. Hardev Bahri. 1.
- Book: Prasād Kavya Vivecan. Investigation of Prasad's Poetry. 1958. Hindi. Hardev Bahri. 1.
- Book: Śabda Siddhi. Word Perfection. 1958. Hindi. Hardev Bahri. 1.
- Hindi Semantics. Bharati Press Publications. Allahabad. 1959. Hardev Bahri. 1.
- Book: Persian influence on Hindi. 1960. Hardev Bahri. Bharati Press Publications. 1.
- Book: Hardev Bahri. 1. Lahndi Phonology (With special reference to Awáṇkárí). 1962. Allahabad.
- Book: Hardev Bahri. 1. Hindī: Udbhav, Vikās, aur Rūp. Hindi: Origin, Development, and Form. 1965. Allahabad. Kitāb Mahal.
- Book: Hardev Bahri. 1. Hindī Grāmīṇ Boliyā. Rural Dialects of Hindi. 1966. Allahabad. Kitāb Mahal.
- Book: Hardev Bahri. 1. Br̥hat Aṅgrezī-Hindī Koś. Comprehensive English-Hindi Dictionary. 1969.
- Book: Bhojpurī Śabd-sampadā. 1981. Hardev Bahri. 1.
- Book: Avadhī Śabd-sampadā. 1982. Hardev Bahri. 1.
- Book: Hardev Bahri. 1. Śikṣārthī Hindī-Aṅgrezī Śabdkoś. Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary. Delhi. Rajpal & Sons. 1989. 5 September 2020. 15 August 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190815113348/https://dsalsrv04.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/bahri/. dead. [3]
- Book: Hardev Bahri. 1. Teach yourself Panjabi. 2011. Patiala. Punjabi University.
Notes and References
- Book: Amaresh Datta. Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: A-Devo. 17 October 2020. 1987. Sahitya Akademi. 978-81-260-1803-1. 325.
- Book: Who's Who Of Indian Writers. Sahitya Akademi. Sahitya Akademi. Dalcassian Publishing Company. 1961. 21.
- Shapiro . Michael C . On Hindi Dictionaries and Related Matters . Journal of the American Oriental Society . 1983 . 103 . 4 . 749–754. 10.2307/602233. 602233 .
