Description: (Irish Linguist and Scholar Who Conducted the Linguistic Survey of India )
Sir George Abraham Grierson, an Irish administrator and linguist in the Indian Civil Service, extensively studied Indian languages and folklore during his tenure in Bengal and Bihar. His proposal for a linguistic survey at the Oriental Congress in 1886 eventually led to the creation of the Linguistic Survey of India in 1898. Grierson conducted thorough surveys, gathering data on 179 languages and 544 dialects, which he classified into five language families and published in 19 volumes.