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The Key to the Hearts of Beginners. A Set of Tales written down in Persian by Bībī Brooke, and translated into English by Annette S. Beveridge. London, 1908.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

George A. Grierson
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 41 , Issue 2 , April 1909 , pp. 517 - 521
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1909

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page 518 note 1 Brooke was born about 1752, and died at Benares in 1833. He landed in India in 1769.

page 518 note 2 Handwriting is mentioned first as of most importance. To a Musalmān, bad handwriting is looked upon as an actual sin. It is a curious trait that Orientals seem to look upon writing and reading as two totally different accomplishments. I remember once, when we were getting up a girls' school in Patna, some old-fashioned Musalmāns telling me that they did not mind their daughters being taught reading, but it must stop at that. They would not consent to their learning to write, although, of course, reading necessarily included the reading of the written hand.

page 519 note 1 Cf. Knowles, Hinton, Folk Tales of Kashmīr, 112 ff.Google Scholar

page 520 note 1 Knowles, Hinton, op. cit., 166 ff.Google Scholar

page 520 note 2 Cf. also Linguistic Survey of India, ix n, 199.Google Scholar