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Beames arrived in India in 1858 and served in the Punjab from March 1859 to late 1861. He was a member of the Indian Civil Service in British India. He was a District Officer and Collector of several districts in Bengal, and the Commissioner of Chittagong. He was also a scholar of Indian history, literature and linguistics. His great work was a comparative grammar of Indo-Aryan languages, published in 3 volumes in 1872-1879. In his autobiography, which was not published until 1961, he describes himself as "an obscure person - an average, ordinary, middle-class Englishman".
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