Ronald Stuart McGregor, commonly R. S. McGregor or Stuart McGregor (24 October 1929 – 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]
His PhD thesis, The Language of Indrajit of Orchā – A Study of Early Braj Bhāsā Prose, was published in 1968.[2]
McGregor married Elaine Langdon in 1960; they had two sons.[3]
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., ed. (1992). Devotional Literature in South Asia: Current Research, 1985–1988. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-41311-4.
McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993). The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-864339-5.
Notes
^ a bPauwels 1993, pp. 454–455.
^ a bTrivedi 2013.
^ a b cLevens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 436.
^"McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1929–)". Ul-newton.lib.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
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, S2CID 162980801
Trivedi, Harish (31 August 2013). "The storyteller of Hindi". The Indian Express.