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Madras Government Museum Bulletin, Anthropology Some Marriage Customs In Southern India; Deformity and Mutilation; Uralis, Sholagas, and Irulas; Fire-Walking In Ganjam; Corporal Punishment In Vernacular Schools

by Edgar Thurston
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9788121240390
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
  • Publisher Imprint: Gyan Publishing House
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  • Pages: 112
  • Original Price: INR 230.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 255 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): N/A

Volume Nine (originally numbered vol. 4, no. 3) notices: some marriage customs in southern India; deformity and mutilation; Uralis, Sholagas, and Irulas; fire walking in Ganjam; and, corporal punishments in vernacular schools. In the following account of various forms of marriage ceremonial in Southern India the author has attempted to bring together the mass of valuable information relating thereto, which, for the most part, lies buried in manuals, gazetteers, census reports, etc., in the hope that it may be of some slight use to those who have made a special study of marriage in many lands. At the outset he may appropriately quote the account of the Brahman marriage ceremony as given in the Census report, 1891, to show how the Brahman ritual has been grafted on the non-Brahman community. The book is the product of extensive study of this topic. This volume has six plates, and was first published in 1903.

Edgar Thurston CIE was a superintendent at the Madras Government Museum who contributed to studies in the zoology, ethnology and botany of India and published works related to his work at the museum. Thurston was educated in medicine and lectured in anatomy at the Madras Medical College while also holding his position at the museum. His early works were on numismatics and geology and these were followed by researches in anthropology and ethnography. He succeeded Frederick S. Mullaly as the superintendent of ethnography for the Madras Presidency. Thurston was appointed to the Ethnographic Survey of India project, established at that time following the success of Herbert Hope Risley's Ethnographic Survey of Bengal. Risley was an adherent to the theories of scientific racism and had been appointed as director of Ethnology in India.

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