Project Gutenberg 2013-06-21 Public domain in the USA. 408 Thurston, Edgar 1855 1935 Rangachari, K. Rangachariyar, Kadambi, Dewan Bahadur Rangachariyar, Kadambi Rangachar, K. Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 1 of 7 Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg. "Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 1 of 7" by Edgar Thurston is a comprehensive ethnographic study written in the early 20th century. This work presents a meticulous examination of over 300 castes and tribes across the Madras Presidency, documenting their customs, physical characteristics, and societal structure. Thurston, an official involved in anthropological research, seeks to address the lives and complexities of these diverse groups, providing insight into the impacts of modernization on their traditional ways of life. The beginning of this volume outlines the author's motivations and research endeavors, detailing how his work commenced with a focus on tribes in the Nilgiri hills and expanded to encompass a broad geospatial survey of the region. Thurston reflects on the challenges he faced during this anthropometric investigation, including the superstitions and fears of local populations regarding his measurements and methods. He explains the purpose of his study, the significance of various cultural practices, and the pressing need to record these traditions before they are lost to modern influences. The introduction sets the stage for a detailed exploration of the demographics and customs of the tribes and castes that inhabit Southern India. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/42991/42991-h/images/front-cover.jpg en Caste -- India, South Tribes -- India, South Ethnology -- India, South India, South -- Social life and customs DS Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - General 1028955 1028963 2024-09-18T06:14:47.521567 2023-09-18T14:30:50.916582 text/html text/html 1051366 2013-06-21T04:16:16 text/html; charset=us-ascii 2877550 2013-06-21T04:16:18 text/html; charset=us-ascii application/zip 2945866 2024-09-18T06:15:05.969494 application/epub+zip 2971749 2024-09-18T06:14:51.456549 application/epub+zip 462771 2024-09-18T06:14:49.322579 application/epub+zip 3279442 2024-09-18T06:15:15.136434 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 3186316 2024-09-18T06:15:04.000507 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 636669 2022-09-19T15:47:49.547905 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 826884 826762 2024-09-18T06:14:44.192583 2023-09-18T14:30:47.591549 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 826530 2013-06-21T04:16:16 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 306977 2013-06-21T04:16:18 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 826565 2013-06-21T04:16:16 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 306801 2013-06-21T04:16:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21242 2024-09-18T06:15:15.344434 application/rdf+xml 14909 2024-09-18T06:14:49.516564 image/jpeg 2172 2024-09-18T06:14:49.418561 image/jpeg 2810978 2024-09-18T06:14:47.697604 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia