Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c46.1

c46.1

§ 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 Census of 1901. The scope of the review, however, is limited to the population of India properly so called, and does not, therefore, include Burma or the outlying tracts of Balūchistān, Aden and the Andamans, by the omission of which the population dealt with is reduced from 294 to 283 millions.