Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston
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"Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7" by Edgar Thurston is a seven-volume encyclopedia published in 1909. This monumental work documents over 300 castes and tribes of South India, covering 40 million people across 150,000 square miles. Part of the British Ethnographic Survey of India, Thurston used anthropometric methods to record physical characteristics, customs, and traditions, though subjects often feared his measurements. The survey faced suspicions ranging from museum
display fears to military recruitment concerns, limiting sample sizes and shaping this controversial colonial-era ethnographic record. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Thurston, Edgar, 1855-1935 |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Rangachari, K. |
| Title | Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castes_and_Tribes_of_Southern_India |
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Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg. |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 68.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia |
| Subject | Caste -- India, South |
| Subject | Tribes -- India, South |
| Subject | Ethnology -- India, South |
| Subject | India, South -- Social life and customs |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 42997 |
| Release Date | Jun 21, 2013 |
| Last Update | Oct 23, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1750 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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