William Crooke

William Crooke

William Crooke (* 1848; † 1923) war ein britischer Ethnologe, Historiker, Folklorist, Indologe und Kolonialbeamter in Indien.

Er war in Indien überwiegend in den nördlichen Provinzen, den nordwestlichen Provinzen und in Oudh tätig und verfasste Werke über die Stämme und Kasten, Volksreligion und Folklore, und über das Kastenwesen der Regionen, die zu Klassikern der Indologie zählen und bis heute ständig neu auflegt werden.

Er verfasste auch zahlreiche Beiträge zur Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (1908-1921) von Rev. James Hastings.

Er ist auch als Herausgeber von Reisewerken (Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, John Fryer, Meer Hasan Ali, Shurreef Jaffur) und Nachschlagewerken (Hobson-Jobson, 2. Aufl. und Things Indian) hervorgetreten.

Werke

  • A rural and agricultural glossary for the N.W. provinces and Oudh / William Crooke. - [Repr. d. Ausg.:] Calcutta, 1888. [Im Buch: 2. ed.]. - New Delhi : Vintage Books, 1989
  • The tribes and castes of the North-western Provinces and Oudh / William Crooke. - Calcutta 1896 (4 Teile)
  • The North-Western provinces of India : their history, ethnology and administration / William Crooke. - 2. ed. - Karachi [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Pr, 1972 (Repr. d. Ausg. London 1897)
  • (Hrsg.) Hobson-Jobson : a glossary of colloqial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical, and discursive / Henry Yule. - New ed. - London : Murray, 1903, Online
  • Things Indian: being discursive notes on various subjects connected with India. 1. Indian ed. [Nachdr. der Ausg.] London 1906. New Delhi: Oriental Books Reprint Corp. 1972
  • (Hrsg.) A new account of East India and Persia : being nine years' travels, 1672 - 1681 / John Fryer. London : Hakluyt Soc., 1909-1915 (3 Bände; Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, Second Series Nos. 19, 20 und 39)
  • (Hrsg.) Observations on the Mussulmauns of India : descriptive of their manners, customs, habits and religious opinions ; made during a twelve years' residence in their immediate society / Meer Hasan Ali. - 2nd ed. - London [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 1917
  • (Hrsg.) Islam in India or the Qānūn-i Islām : the Customs of the Musalmāns of India comprising a full and exact account of their various rites and ceremonies from the moment of birth to the hour of death / Šarīf Ǧaʿfar. - 2. edition, revised and rearranged. - London, Edinburgh. Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1921
  • (Hrsg.) Hatim's tales : Kashmiri stories and songs / Aurel Stein. - London, 1923
  • Religion [and] folklore of Northern India / William Crooke. - New Edition. - (London), 1926
  • The popular religion and folk-lore of Northern India / William Crooke. - A new ed., rev. and illustr. - Westminster : Constable, 1896 (2 Bände)
  • (Hrsg.) Travels in India : in two volumes / by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier. Transl. from the French ed. of 1676 with a biographical sketch of the author, notes, appendices, &c. by V. Ball. Teil: Vol. 2 Verfasser: Jean Baptiste Tavernier *1605-1689* Sonst. Personen: Ball, Valentine [Übers.] ; Crooke, William [Hrsg.] Ausgabe: 1. Indian ed. - [Repr. of the] 2. ed. / ed. by William Crooke Erschienen: New Delhi : Oriental Books Repr. Corp., 1977 Umfang: XV, 399 S.

Schriftenreihe: Oriental reprint [die erste Auflage der Edition von William Crooke erschien 1925 in London]

  • (Hrsg.) North Indian Notes and Queries
  • A Glossary of North Indian Peasant Life. Edited, with an Introduction, Notes and Appendices by Shahid Amin. OUP, Dehli, 1989

Literatur

  • Gharib Chaube, Ram, Pandit: In quest of Indian folktales / Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William Crooke ;[edited by] Sadhana Naithani. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2006 (Tales translated from the Hindi)

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