A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Language of India: to Wit, Hindi, Panjabi, Sindhi, Gujarati, Marathi, Oriya and Bangali Author: Beames, John This Volume is a comparative grammar of the Indo-Aryan languages, mainly Hindi, Punjabi, Sindhi, Gujarati, Marathi, Oriya and Bengali. John Beames was a member of the Bengal civil service and fellow of the Royal Asiatic Bengal. His intention in writing this work is to represent the most salient peculiarities of the languages that he heard around him and that he felt are needed to be understood by the British. It refers mainly to the sounds and phonetics of these languages with reference to their vowels and consonants.