The People of India
Title | The People of India PDF eBook |
Author | Sir Herbert Hope Risley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 644 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Anthropometry |
ISBN |
The People of India
Title | The People of India PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9788121289504 |
The People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations, with Descriptive Letterpress, of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan, Originally
Title | The People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations, with Descriptive Letterpress, of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan, Originally PDF eBook |
Author | John Forbes Watson |
Publisher | Sagwan Press |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2018-01-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781297806728 |
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The People of India
Title | The People of India PDF eBook |
Author | John Forbes Watson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1868 |
Genre | East Indians |
ISBN |
India
Title | India PDF eBook |
Author | Bobbie Kalman |
Publisher | Crabtree Publishing Company |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2009-08 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780778792864 |
Looks at India's history, family life, homes, villages, cities, education, languages, occupations, social problems, and customs.
People of India
Title | People of India PDF eBook |
Author | Kumar Suresh Singh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Ethnology |
ISBN | 9788185579092 |
The People of India
Title | The People of India PDF eBook |
Author | Herbert Risley |
Publisher | Asian Educational Services |
Pages | 654 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Anthropometry |
ISBN | 9788120612655 |
An indispensable volume written by the director of Ethnology in India, Herbert Risley. It gives a very full and scholarly account concerning the people of India. Chapter one classifies the people according to their physical types; chapter 2 classifies them according to the social types; chapter three is a very amusing section of the proverbs and popular saying of the people about themselves. Chapter four concerns the rituals of caste and marriage; Chapter 5 is on caste and religion, chapter 6 discuss the origins of caste, and chapter 7 notices caste and nationality. At the end are 7 appendices that give information on proverbs, maps of caste, anthropometric data, infant marriage laws, modern theories of caste, Kulin polygamy and the santhal and munda tribes. The book has 35 illustrations. This book is a reprint of the 1915 edition.