User:Jhellingman/Castes and Tribes

At the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century, the British authorities in India (At that time still including Pakistan, Bangladesh and Burma, and intruding into Nepal and Bhutan) produced a series of volumes on the castes and tribes of various regions in India. These books treat each group in great detail, and thus constitute a wealth of information. Some of this is hopelessly outdated, and no longer acceptable (such as discussions on criminal tribes), but still it will be very valuable to have this material available on line, if only as an historical resource.

The following volumes are in my possession:

Robert Vane Russell (1873-1915) and Rai Bahadur Hīra Lāl, The tribes and castes of the Central Provinces of India, London: Macmillan, 1916.

4 volumes: Vol. I. - XXV, 426 p. - Met index. - Vol. II. - XI, 540 p. - Vol. III. - XI, 589 p. - Vol. IV. - XI, 608 p.

Edgar Thurston (1855-1935) and K. Rangachari, Castes and tribes of Southern India, Madras: Government Press, 1909.

7 volumes: Vol. I: A and B. - LXXIII, 397 p. - Vol. II: C to J. - 501 p. - Vol. III: K. - . - 504 p. - Vol. IV: K to M. - 501 p. - Vol. V: M to P. - 487 p. - Vol. VI: P to S. - 458 p. - Vol. VII: T to Z. - 439 p

The following sets are also in scope for this mega project:

L.K. Anantha Krishna Iyer, The Cochin tribes and castes, Madras: Higginbotham, 1909-1912.

2 volumes: Vol. I. - 1909. - XXX, 366 p. - Vol. II. - 1912. - XXIII, 504 p.

Reginald Edward Enthoven, The tribes and castes of Bombay, Bombay: Government Central Press, 1920-1922.

3 volumes.

Herbert Hope Risley, The tribes and castes of Bengal, Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Press, 1891-1892.

2 volumes in 4 parts.

Matthew Atmore Sherring (1826-1880), Hindu tribes and castes, as represented in Benares, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink, 1872-1881

3 volumes: [Vol. I]: [The Brahmanical, Kshatriya, Agnikulas tribes ...]. - 1872. - XXII, 405 p. : ill. - Vol. II: Account of the Mahomedan tribes of the North-West frontier and of the aboriginal tribes of the central provinces. - 1879. - LXVIII, 376 p. - Vol. III: On the natural history of Hindu caste; the unity of the Hindu race, and the prospects of Indian caste. General index. - 1881. - XI, 336 p

William Crooke (1848-1923), The tribes and castes of the North-Western provinces and Oudh, Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, 1896.

4 volumes: Vol. I. - CCXVI, 294 p. - Vol. II. - 499 p. - Vol. III. - 500 p. - Vol. IV. - 516 p. - With index

Horace Arthur Rose (1867-1933), Denzil Charles Jelf Ibbetson (1847-1908), and Edward Douglas Maclagan (1864-1952), A glossary of the tribe and castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province, Lahore, 1911-1919.

3 volumes: Vol. 1. - Vol. 2: A-K. - Vol. 3: L-Z with appendices A-L.

Other India related multi-volume projects I'm interested in are:

• Grierson, Linguistic Survey of India. (Covering the languages of most of Northern India, a multi-lingual, multi-script challenge)
• The Archaeological Survey of India series (Extremely expensive huge books with collotypes, very attractive, and even more important)
• The various Gazetteer series (A lot of them)
• The various Census of India series (This is truly huge)