Thomas Grahame Bailey (1872 1942) had the components of this work
printed in individual parts in India between 1902 and 1906. The
Royal Asiatic Society in London decided to collect and publish them
in 1908 in its monograph series, incorporating a preface by Bailey.
The pagination is not continuous as already printed sheets of the
earlier studies were reused. Twenty-six dialects from the hill
regions of the northern and north-western Himalayas are covered in
some detail, including grammar, vocabulary, their relationship to
each other, and some songs. Bailey's work was pioneering: he had
travelled among the hill peoples, being initiated into tribal rites
and secret vocabularies, often of a criminal nature. There had been
no previous publications on the grammar or philology of these
dialects, merely some translated Christian texts. Bailey
subsequently published a number of works on languages of the Indian
subcontinent, including a history of Urdu literature.
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