Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 3 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

"Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 3 of 7" by Edgar Thurston is a seven-volume encyclopedia published in 1909. Part of the British Ethnographic Survey of India, this monumental work documents over 300 castes and tribes across Madras Presidency and surrounding princely states. Thurston investigated social customs, physical characteristics, and traditions of over 40 million people, employing anthropometric methods despite local suspicions and resistance. The work reflects both ambitious ethnographic documentation and the controversial racial theories of its era. (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. 3 of 7
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castes_and_Tribes_of_Southern_India
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Reading Level Reading ease score: 67.2 (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. 42993
Release Date
Last Update Oct 23, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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