Risley, H. H.
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The tribes and castes of Bengalbook chapter 1891
- Summary
- Sir Herbert Hope Risley was a British ethnographer and colonial administrator, a member of the Indian Civil Service who conducted extensive studies on the tribes and castes of the Bengal Presidency. He is notable for the formal identification of the centuries old established caste system of the entire Hindu population of British India in the 1901 census, of which he was in charge. As an exponent of scientific racism, he used anthropometric data to divide Indians into seven races. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][2][3][4][5]
- Born
- 1851 [4]
- 1851-01-04 [2]
- Died
- 1911 [4]
- 1911-09-30 [2]
- Country
- Great Britain [4]
- Language
- English [5]
- Occupation
- anthropologist [2]
- ethnographer [2]
- Profession
- Indologe [4]
- Educated at
- New College [2]
- Winchester College [2]
- Country of Education
- United Kingdom [2]
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Biography (requires subscription) [2]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [2]
- Sources
- 1. Library of Congress
- 2. Wikidata
- 3. VIAF
- 4. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 5. Bibliothèque nationale de France
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