1904.] Anmial Eeport. 15 



Council have established a Depot for the registration and storage of 

 Anthropological Photographs in India at the Society's rooms similar to 

 that which the British Association for the Advancement of Science has 

 adopted in England. The circular issued by the British Association, 

 with a note on the subject, is issued as a leaflet in the Society's Journal, 

 Part III, No. 2 for 1903 and subsequent issues. 



Proceedings. 



€'he most interesting paper in the Proceedings is Babu Girindra 

 Nath Dutt's History of Hatwa Raj, tracing the descent of the present 

 Raja from Virasena, the great conqueror of southern India before the 

 Christian era. The family flourished under the Moghal [rule and came 

 under the British rule in 1765 on the assumption of the Dewani of Suba 

 Bangla by the East India Company. The discovery of the Sarak caste 

 of weavers in the district of Cuttack professing a sort of Buddhist creed 

 throws some light on the process by which Buddhism gradually retired 

 from the plains and is still hiding itself in retired nooks and corners of 

 Eastern India. On this subject two papers were read: the one by Satisa 

 Candra Acaryya has been published. The discussion of the origin of the 

 caste system produced some interesting papers. Pandit Satisa Candra 

 Acaryya attempted to prove that the ancients considered foreigners to be 

 Vratyas, i.e., fallen from the original four castes. Pandit Yogesa Candra 

 Sastri wrote a paper on the origin of the Kap section of the Varendra class 

 of Brahmans of Bengal which throws new light on the question. Babu Hari 

 Mohan Simha wrote a paper on the Koch people in Northern India. Mr. 

 O'Mally's paper on Cay a Sradh is very interesting as showing what part 

 demonworship still plays in Hindu rituals. The Oraons in Chota Nagpur 

 are an interesting non-Aryan people, and their religion and superstition 

 have been made the subject of an interesting paper by Rev. F. Hahn. 

 He gives the number of totemistic septs and the taboo attached to each 

 among this people. 



Babu Monmohan Chakravati's paper on the Eastern Ganga Kings 

 gives a list of fourteen kings from Choda Ganga, Saka 998, to Nrisimha 

 Deva IV of Orissa, Saka 1316. M. M. Haraprasad Sastri's paper 

 identifies Ramgarh in the Sarguja State with the Rama Giri hill, the 

 starting point of the cloud in Kalidasa's Meghaduta, and if his inter- 

 pretation of the Asoka character inscriptions there be correct, it woald 

 be interesting to note that even secular subjects formed the objects of 



these inscriptions. 



Journal, Part I, 



Three numbers have been published during the last year, viz., 

 No. 2 of Vol. LXXI, No. 1 of Vol. LXXII, and Extra No. 2 of 



