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Frontmatter -- INTRODUCTION -- SOCIAL ORGANISATION -- A. Historical -- B. Descriptive -- CASTES AND CASTE-GROUPS -- A. Special Groups -- B. The Village Community -- C. Subsidiary Professional Castes -- D. Urban Castes -- E. Nomadic Castes -- F. Hill Tribes -- G. Muslim Race Titles -- APPENDICES -- A. Summary of Caste-Groups -- E. Caste Index -- Table of Languages -- Table of Religions -- Table of Forest Tribes -- LIST OF THE MORE IMPORTANT WOR...

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Excerpt from Ethnography: Castes and TribesIn the present day it is represented by the wild tribes of the Central Belt, and in a higher state of culture by the population ofthe southern portions of the Peninsula. On philological grounds, the people south of the Belt are distinguished from those further north. The former, known as Dravidian, seem always to have kept to their present localities, except in a few cases where tribes have migrated i...

Excerpt from Ethnography: Castes and Tribes §1. The subject with which it is proposed to deal in the present work is that branch of Indian ethnography which is concerned with the social organisation of the population, or the dispersal of the latter into definite groups based upon considerations of race, tribe, blood or occupation. In the main, it takes the form of a descriptive survey of the return of castes and tribes obtained through the Ce...