The tribes and castes of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, Volume 1 (of 4)

This study offers an ethnographic survey of social groups in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, compiling earlier accounts and fresh field observations to describe tribes and castes, their customs, marriage practices, religious observances, and patterns of social change. It groups communities into broad typologies and presents detailed anthropometric material, explaining methods and giving comparative nasal, cephalic and facial-angle indices and tables. Entries combine descriptive sketches of ritual and daily life, notes on subdivisions and regional variation, and statistical analysis aimed at classification and cross-group comparison.