The People of India

The results of th-: - Ethnographic Survey of Bengal were published in a preliminary edition in 1891 under the title of The Tribes.and Castes of Bengal consisting of two volumes of the " Ethnographical Glossary " and two of " Anthropometric Data " the latter prepared under the advice of Sir W. H. Flower: Director of the Natural History Museum South Kensington and Sir W. Turner the eminent Edi [...] After the completion of this work he was appointed Home Secretar: - in Lord Curzon's administration and in 1909 he became a tanporary member of the Council of the GovernoGeneral._ When in the viceroyalty of Lord Minto the arduous and delicate task of reforming and extending the Provincial Councils in order to satisfy the aspirations of the mere advanced section of the people was undertaken [...] His services as an administrator and an anthropologist were recognised by the bestowal of the Order of Comparion of the Star of India in 1904 and the Knighthood of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1907. [...] The Deccan itself one of the most ancient geological formations in the world has since the dawn of history been the home of the Dravidians the oldest of the Indian races. [...] A clue to the grounds of the accusation is however furnished by Sir Henry Maine's remark that the study of the sacred languages of India has given to the world " the modern science pf Philology and the modern theory of Race." The study of SanMcrit received its first impetus from the publication by Sir William Tones of translations of Kalidasa's Sakuntala in 1785 and of the Institutes of Manu in