The following volumes contain the results of what is, I believe, the first attempt to apply to Indian ethnograplıy the methods of systematic research sanctioned by the authority of European anthropologists.
I am painfully aware that in many respects the work is exceedingly imperfect, and can hardly claim to do more than map out and define in view of further inquiry the large field of research which had to be covered. In attempting within a given time to draw up an ethnographic description of the various castes and tribes found among the seventy milline of people inhabiting the territory administered by lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, it is difficult, on the one find to secure complete information regarding all the which have to be dealt with, and on the other to avoid making general statements concerning castes as a whole, which are only true of particular sections of those castes. For this reason it has been decided to bring out at first an official edition, and to invite criticism with the object of supplying omissions and correcting mistakes. All suggestions will be carefully considered, and the conclusions to which they give rise embodied in a second edition. It is hoped that criticisms may be sent in promptly enough for this second edition to be brought out within eighteen ruonths' or two years' time. All communications on this subject should be addressed to me at the Bongal Secretariat, Calcutta.
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