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William CrookeCIE FBA (6 August 1848 – 25 October 1923) was a British orientalist and a key figure in the study and documentation of Anglo-Indian folklore. He was born in County Cork, Ireland, and was educated at Erasmus Smith's Tipperary Grammar School and Trinity College, Dublin.
Crooke joined the Indian Civil Service. While an administrator in India, he found abundant material for his researches in the ancient civilizations of the country. He found ample time to write much on the people of India, their religions, beliefs and customs. He was also an accomplished hunter.
Although Crooke was a gifted administrator, his career in the ICS lasted only 25 years because of personality clashes with his superiors. He returned to England and in 1910, he was chosen to be the president of the Anthropological Section of the British Association.[1] In 1911, having been for many years a member of the council of the Folklore Society, he was elected its president.[2] Re-elected as president of the society in the following year,[3] he then became the editor of its journal, Folk-lore, in 1915. He continued in this last position until his death at a nursing home in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, on 25 October 1923.[1]
Crooke received various honours later in life, including degrees from the universities of Oxford and Dublin and a fellowship of the British Academy.
WilliamCrooke CIE FBA (6 August 1848 – 25 October 1923) was a British orientalist and a key figure in the study and documentation of Anglo-Indian folklore...
This list of the works of WilliamCrooke (1848–1923) represents much of his literary output in pursuit of his interests in ethnology and folklore, for...
of Singrauli claimed to be a "Benbansi Rajput", as recorded by WilliamCrooke. Crooke wrote the name "Ben-bansi" ("of Ben family") is variously thought...
Andrew Crooke (c. 1605 – 20 September 1674) and William Cooke (died 1641?) were London publishers of the mid-17th-century. In partnership and individually...
partner of William Cooke Edward Crooke (1861–1940), Australian politician Frederick Crooke (1844–1923), English cricketer Helkiah Crooke (1576–1648)...
discursive. Archived from the original on 2012-07-15. New ed. edited by WilliamCrooke, B.A. London: J. Murray, 1903 Smith, Delia. "Buttery Kedgeree". Delia...
etymological, historical, geographical and discursive. New ed. edited by WilliamCrooke, B.A. J. Murray, London. Archived from the original on 2012-07-07.{{cite...
Media Partners, LLC. ISBN 9781015892064. Retrieved 27 November 2022. WilliamCrooke, James Tod (18 July 2023). "Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, Or...
is the true basis of the system." The study was, in the opinion of WilliamCrooke, another ethnographer of the Raj period, "the first attempt to apply...
2014-08-20 at the Wayback Machine (second edition), Volume II. Edited by WilliamCrooke and translated by V. Ball. London: Oxford University Press. Weinstein...
material or occupational theorists led by the ethnographer and folklorist WilliamCrooke (1848–1923), author of one of the most widely read provincial Castes...
ISBN 978-81-7041-859-7. Yule, Sir Henry; Burnell, Arthur Coke (1903), WilliamCrooke (ed.), Hobson-Jobson: a Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and...
(1925 [1676]). Travels in India (second edition), Volume II. Edited by WilliamCrooke and translated by V. Ball. London: Oxford University Press. Weinstein...
Patrick WilliamCrooke (12 July 1927 – 9 September 2018) was a British architect and researcher whose work focused on urban development and housing in...
Ram Gharib Chaube was an Indian scholar who assisted WilliamCrooke in various ethnographic researches during the period of the British Raj. Chaube was...
by H. Parker (1910) Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and British orientalist WilliamCrooke Verrier Elwin, ethographer and collector of Indian folk tales (1902–1964)...
etymological, historical, geographical and discursive. New ed. edited by WilliamCrooke, B.A. London: J. Murray, 1903 "Was the Ramayana actually set in and...
Delhi are as follows:- Barsoi, Chamayan, Chhokar, Khatāna, Rāwal, Khare WilliamCrooke (1896) The Tribes and Castes of the North-western Provinces and Oudh:...
(2006). In quest of Indian folktales: Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and WilliamCrooke. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-34544-8. Retrieved 15 April...
to the Nishad community quoted the scholars such as Hall, Keith and WilliamCrooke as well as scriptures like Rig Veda to prove that there used to be a...
scholars as well as some Indian scholars, such as D. R. Bhandarkar. WilliamCrooke theorised that the demons referred to in the Agnikula legend were Buddhist...
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