R. S. McGregor

Stuart McGregor

Ronald Stuart McGregor, commonly R. S. McGregor (or Stuart McGregor) (died 19 August 2013), was a philologist of the Hindi language.^[1] Best known as editor of the Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, a standard reference work published in 1993 after a sustained effort of twenty years,^[1] McGregor was a Fellow of Wolfson College and retired as Reader in Hindi at the University of Cambridge.^[2]

Biography

McGregor was born in New Zealand in 1929.^[3] His parents were Scottish. After obtaining his BA, he studied early English philology at Oxford, and learned Hindi. He attended the University of Allahabad in 1959–60 to study Hindi. His Ph.D. thesis, The Language of Indrajit of Orchā – A Study of Early Braj Bhāsā Prose, was published in 1968.^[2]

Publications

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1995) [1986]. Outline of Hindi Grammar: With Exercises. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-870008-1.
• McGregor, R. S. (2007). The Language of Indrajit of Orchā: A Study of Early Braj Bhāsā Prose. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-05228-3.
• McGregor, R. S. (editor) (1992). Devotional Literature in South Asia: Current Research, 1985–1988. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-41311-4. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993). The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-864339-5.

Notes

1. Pauwels 1993, pp. 454–455.
2. Trivedi 2013.
3. "McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1929–)". Ul-newton.lib.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-02-15.

References

• Pauwels, Heidi (November 1993), "Review of The Oxford Hindi–English dictionary. Edited by R. S. McGregor, pp. xx, 1083, Oxford and Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993, £50.00", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 5 (3): 454–455, doi:10.1017/s1356186300006969
• Trivedi, Harish (31 August 2013). "The storyteller of Hindi". The Indian Express. Retrieved 11 September 2013.