Thurston, Edgar 1855-1935 creator Rangachari, K. text utu 2013 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Castes and Tribes of Southern India, Vol. 2 of 7" by Edgar Thurston is a seven-volume encyclopedia published in 1909. This monumental work documents over 300 social groups across southern India, covering approximately 40 million people. Thurston employed controversial anthropometric methods to record physical characteristics, customs, and traditions of castes and tribes in the Madras Presidency and surrounding princely states. Despite methodological limitations and subjects' suspicions about his intentions, the encyclopedia remains a significant, though contested, ethnographic record of early twentieth-century Indian society. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castes_and_Tribes_of_Southern_India Release date is 2013-06-21 Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg. Original publication data not identified Caste -- India, South Tribes -- India, South Ethnology -- India, South India, South -- Social life and customs DS Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42992 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42992 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134002.0 42992