Ethnographic Survey in South India

by Edgar Thurston

Under the scheme for a systematic ethnographic survey of the whole of India a superintendent for each state and government was appointed to carry out the work of the survey in addition to his other duties.For the issue of this book the time in not yet ripe and as an as interim measure, I send forth the present farrago in the hope that it may be of some little use and interest to those who are engagedin the study of ethnological and sociological questions in the arm chair or the field. Edgar Thurston was a Retired Superintendent of Madras Government Museum in India. He was also a superintendent of Ethnography Madras and Correspondant Etranger Societe Danthropologie De Paris.