The People of IndiaAsian Educational Services, 1999 - 472 من الصفحات 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. |
المحتوى
Ethnic isolation of India | 1 |
Language and race | 7 |
Indefinite physical characters | 13 |
Method of treatment adopted | 19 |
the three primary types | 25 |
orbitonasal index | 32 |
ScythoDravidian type | 38 |
Dravidian type | 44 |
Stratification of caste | 216 |
Animism | 222 |
The ghost theory | 228 |
The Sri Panchami and Animism | 235 |
Ancient Paganism and modern Hinduism | 242 |
Influence of Christianity on the low castes | 250 |
The origin of caste | 257 |
Sir Denzil Ibbetsons theory | 263 |
The mode of its entry into India | 50 |
Dr Hoernles theory | 56 |
the tribe | 62 |
Definition of caste | 68 |
Conversion of tribes into castes | 75 |
Totemism | 95 |
Sir J G Frazers theory of totemism | 104 |
its nonIndian origin | 110 |
Method adopted in Census of 1901 | 111 |
Social precedence among Muhammadans | 121 |
CHAPTER III | 128 |
The Goldsmith | 134 |
Comparative Proverbs | 140 |
In Sind and Gujarāt | 146 |
Bibliography of Indian Proverbs | 152 |
CASTE AND MARRIAGE | 154 |
Influence of hypergamy | 165 |
Female infanticide and exogamy | 171 |
Widow and infant marriage | 182 |
Mr Nesfields theory | 188 |
The physiological side of the question | 194 |
The Mysore | 200 |
Difficulties of legislation | 206 |
Fraternal polyandry in Tibet and Sikkim | 212 |
Caste not merely occupation The guilds of Medieval Europe | 270 |
the influence of fiction | 276 |
European idea that caste is breaking | 285 |
Intermarriage | 292 |
The future of Indian Nationalism | 299 |
I | 305 |
II | 334 |
III | 344 |
62 | 351 |
19 | 352 |
28 | 364 |
63 | 370 |
34 | 376 |
64 | 378 |
78 | 388 |
INFANT MARRIAGE LAWS | 403 |
42 | 434 |
THE SANTAL AND MUNDA TRIBES | 438 |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
ancestors Animism Aryan Average Baloch Baniya barber Bengal Bihar Brahman bride bridegroom called caste system Census Census Report cephalic Cephalic Index ceremony Chamar classes custom daughter distinct Dravidian endogamous exogamous fact father female girl give gods groups higher castes Hindu Hinduism husband hypergamy idea India Indo-Aryan infant marriage infanticide influence intermarriage Jāt Kaibartta Kayasth Khatris Koolins Kshatriyas Kulin Kunbi live LONG HEADS Madras Maratha marriage marry Maximum Minimum Miyan modern Muhammadans Musalman Nāgas Nasal Index number of subjects observed occupation origin Parsi Percentage on number polyandry polygamy practice present priest primitive PROPORTIONS OF NOSE proverbs Punjab race Rajputana Rajputs Range rank religion religious ROOT OF NOSE rule Santāls seems sept SERIATIONS social society STATURE sub-caste theory tion totem tradition tribal tribe Turko-Iranian usage Vedas village washerman widow marriage wife wives woman women worship