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Castes and Tribes of Southern India - Vol 7 by Edgar Thurston, K. Rangachari is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Description from Wikipedia: "Castes and Tribes of Southern India is a seven-volume encyclopedia of social groups of Madras Presidency and the princely states of Travancore, Mysore, Coorg and Pudukkottai published by British museologist Edgar Thurston and K. Rangachari in 1909.""The seven-volume work was one of several such publications resulting from the Ethnographic Survey of India project which was formally instituted by the Government of British India in 1901. The Survey was intended to record details of the manners, customs and physical features of Indian castes and tribes using in part the anthropometric methods that had first been used in India by Herbert Hope Risley for his own survey of the tribes and castes of Bengal. An eight-year period of funding was allotted for the purpose."

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Edgar Thurston, K. Rangachari
Publisher
Johnson Reprint Corporation
Published
1965
Language
EN
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Social Science, Ethnography, Social_sciences

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