Category: Archaeology & Anthropology
Curiously enough, the systematic enquiry into the physical race-characteristics of the Indian peoples was due to a daring assertion by Mr Nesfield, of the Indian Educational Service, to the effect that, so far as physical signs go, there is practically only one Indian race and...
Curiously enough, the systematic enquiry into the physical race-characteristics of the Indian peoples was due to a daring assertion by Mr Nesfield, of the Indian Educational Ser...
3. CHAPTER III(1) _Animism._ At the base of all the religions, perhaps at the base of all religions all over the world, lies a mass of primitive beliefs, not perhaps yet consciously classed b...
2. CHAPTER IIIt is quite possible to live many years in one province or another of India without obtaining more than the vaguest conception of the linguistic riches of the country. It was Si...
7. CHAPTER IIIProfessor Hopkins' _Religions of India_ and _India Old and New_ deal with both the literature and the actual working of Indian religions. Mr W. Crooke's _Native Races of Norther...
4. CHAPTER IProbably the best succinct account of Caste is Mr E. A. Gait's article in Dr Hastings' _Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics_. This will, of course, be brought up to date in the...
6. CHAPTER IIThe standard authority on the modern languages of India is Sir G. A. Grierson's work on _The Languages of India_ (Calcutta, 1903). It will, however, be superseded by the book wh...
5. Chapter I is, in the main, a summary of Sir H. H. Risley's views asexpressed in Chapter VI of Vol. I of the _Imperial Gazetteer_. That is inevitable, since the _Gazetteer_ contains necessarily the most authoritative summary of what is known on...