eexxxviii Procs. of the Asiatic Society, of Bengal. [N.S., XVII, 
published in 1891, the four volumes of the Tribes and Castes 
of the North-Western Provinces of Agra and Oudh by Dr. Crooke, 
published in 1896, the six volumes of Castes and Tribes of 
Southern India published by Thurston with the assistance 
of Mr..K. Rangachari, published in 1909, Rose’s “ Glossary for 
the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-Western Frontier 
Provinces ” published in 1911, Captain C. E. Luard’s “ Ethnogra- 
phical Survey of the Central India Agency * (19909), and the 
four excellent volumes on the Castes and Tribes of the Central 
Similar ethnographic surveys were also undertaken by a few 
of the Native States, such as Mysore, Cochin and Travancore ; 
and, as a result, we have such accounts as Mr. H. V. Nanjun- 
dayaya’s bulletins of the Mysore Castes and Tribes, and the two 
sumptuous volumes on the Cochin Tribes and Castes by Mr. 
. K. Anantha Krishna lyer. 
In the compilation of these volumes on the Castes and 
Tribes of the different provinces, free use was made of the mass 
of information which lay buried not only in official reports and 
in the Journals of learned Societies, but in various other inter- 
esting books published up tillthen. Among the authors of such 
books, too, Indian names are conspicuous by their absence. 
h information contained in all such books, the fuller 
information contained in the numerous ethnographic articles in 
the journals and magazines already mentioned, the ethnographic 
information contained in various Government Reports an 
Gazetteers, and, above all, the volumes on Castes and Tribes 
that were, not many years ago, ethnologically almost terra 
incognita to us, are now, in their broad outlines, pretty familiar 
to students of Anthropology through the labeurs of the Ethno- 
in 1859, was that they were known as the “ Malearasurs’”’ 
and were “analogous to the Tudas, etc., in the hills of the 
Malayalam country.” Eight years later, Mr. Justice Campbell 
(Ethnology of India, pp. 30-31), could only say, “ Allusions seem 
to be made to the existence of Aboriginal or quasi-Aborginal 
