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. 4 of 7" by Edgar Thurston is a seven-volume encyclopedia published in 1909. Part of the British government's Ethnographic Survey of India, this ambitious work documents over 300 castes and tribes across southern India, covering 40 million people. Thurston employed anthropometric measurements to investigate social groups, though his subjects often met him with suspicion and fear. The work represents both a significant ethnographic record and a controversial example of colonial-era racial classification theories applied to 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/42994 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42994 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134002.0 42994