My India, My People
My India, My People

Author: Vasant Kalbag

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010-05-24

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13: 0557475120

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A Fascinating Account of the author's life spanning across an historic era - born in pre-Independence days, through Independence and India's first tentative steps on the global arena, to India's current position in the Internet Age

India
India

Author: Bobbie Kalman

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company

Published: 2009-08

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780778792864

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Looks at India's history, family life, homes, villages, cities, education, languages, occupations, social problems, and customs.

The People of India
The People of India

Author: Herbert Risley

Publisher: Asian Educational Services

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 654

ISBN-13: 9788120612655

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An indispensable volume written by the director of Ethnology in India, Herbert Risley. It gives a very full and scholarly account concerning the people of India. Chapter one classifies the people according to their physical types; chapter 2 classifies them according to the social types; chapter three is a very amusing section of the proverbs and popular saying of the people about themselves. Chapter four concerns the rituals of caste and marriage; Chapter 5 is on caste and religion, chapter 6 discuss the origins of caste, and chapter 7 notices caste and nationality. At the end are 7 appendices that give information on proverbs, maps of caste, anthropometric data, infant marriage laws, modern theories of caste, Kulin polygamy and the santhal and munda tribes. The book has 35 illustrations. This book is a reprint of the 1915 edition.