cexxvili Proceedings of the Asiati. Soc. of Bengal. [N.S., XVII, 
beginnings of anthropological investigation in this country. It 
P is to that society, the scope of whose inqui- 
aye arenes ries was laid down in 1774 in the inaugural 
address by its founder and first President 
Sir William Jones, as ‘‘ the entire field comprised in the words 
Man and Nature, ”’ that modern research in Indian Ethnography 
and Ethnology may be said to owe its foundation. 
_ But how insignificant has been the part taken by Indian 
Scholars in laying down those foundations and building up 
the superstructure may be judged from the fact that within 
the first hundred years of the establishment of the Asiatic 
the Macedonians,” by one Mr. Mohan Lal in 1834 (Asiatic 
the Keonjhar State, Colonel Sherwell who, in 1851, wrote 
about the Malers or Paharias of the Rajmahal hills, E. A. Samuels 
who in 1858, gave an interesting account of the Juangs of the 
Keonjhar and Dhenkanal States in Orissa, Dr. F. L. Stewart who, 
in 1865, wrote about the Bogshas of Upper India and Colonel 
Dalton ‘who between the years 1865 and 1872, contributed 
several interesting papers about the hill tribes of Chota Nagpur 
and Orissa. 
Similarly, it was during this period that the investigations 
of such European writers as Dalton. Hodgson, Robinson, 
Rey. F. Mason, brought together a mass of information regarding 
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