Talk:Lal Behari Day

Name

We give one source, "Fairy Tales" at Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh. That article states,

"Perhaps the first collector of Bangla fairy tales was lalbehari dey (1824-1894), who published his English translations of these tales as Folk-Tales of Bengal (1875). Dey was followed ..."

On the other hand, the Banglapedia biography is "Day, Rev. Lalbehari" and uses Day rather than Dey thruout [1]. Both articles use Lalbehari thruout.

According to Project Gutenberg, the 1912 ed. of Folk-Tales of Bengal was published as by Lal Behari Day.

--P64 (talk) 21:01, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

The Banglapedia articles both call him "Lalbehari" rather than Day/Dey for short. We previously used "Lal Behari" most of the time, and I made that universal here, while I tagged some unclear points in section 1, paragraph 1. --P64 (talk) 21:25, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Library of Congress gives variants De, Lal Behari; Lālabihārī De; Lālavihārī De (no Dey), LCCN n80-025702. --P64 (talk) 22:00, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Vital dates

We give lifespan 1824–1892.

Our only stated source is Banglapedia, which gives 1824–1894 in both articles (above).

The US Library Congress and other national libraries give 1826–1894, VIAF 46929289.

--P64 (talk) 21:30, 2 March 2017 (UTC)