TY - BOOK AU - Thurston,Edgar AU - Rangachari,K. TI - Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 5 of 7 AV - DS PY - 2013/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Caste -- India, South KW - Tribes -- India, South KW - Ethnology -- India, South KW - India, South -- Social life and customs N1 - 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 N2 - "Castes and Tribes of Southern India, Vol. 5 of 7" by Edgar Thurston is a seven-volume encyclopedia published in 1909. This monumental work documents over 300 castes and tribes across southern India, covering 40 million people. Part of the British Ethnographic Survey of India, Thurston conducted anthropometric measurements and recorded customs, traditions, and social structures of diverse communities in Madras Presidency and neighboring princely states, creating a comprehensive catalog of social groups during colonial rule. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42995 ER -