JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY 



STJPLEMENTARY NUMBER. 



Vol, XXXV. Part IL 



The Ethnology of India. — By Mr. Justice Campbell. 

 [Received 4th June, 1866.] 

 I trust that the great subject of Indian Ethnology has been taken 

 up by the Society in a serious and earnest manner, with a view to 

 that actual observation and practical inquiry which is only possible 

 in the countries and on the spots where the various races are found, or 

 where specimens of them may be collected together. The Govern- 

 ment has already consented to take the first step in aid of the move- 

 ment by collecting from its officers, in all parts of India, lists of the 

 races and classes existing in the various districts. The present paper 

 is designed to assist both Government officers and private persons in 

 making classified and descriptive lists in such a uniform manner, and 

 with such a uniform nomenclature and arrangement, that it may be 

 afterwards possible to weld together the whole of the information thus 

 obtained. Without some common plan and nomenclature, without, as 

 it were, some Ethnological skeleton to serve as the guide and model 

 into which the various details may be fitted, and by which they may 

 be classed, I fear that there may be much confusion and error in 

 bringing together lists which must necessarily often be made by offi- 

 cials who have little knowledge of Ethnology as a science, and whose 

 practical knowledge and nomenclature are limited to their own par- 

 ticular parts of India. My object then is, to supply a sort of rough 



