ABSTRACT
In May 1901, the Government of India issued orders for the commencement of the Ethnographical Survey of eight provinces and proposed that the enquiries into the origin, social configuration, customs, and occupations of the numerous castes and tribes should be spread over a period of four or five years. These enquiries were to follow closely the lines of certain questions approved by Messers. Nesfield, Ibbetson, and Risley at a Conference held in 1885. 1 They were to be carried out by the Superintendents in addition to their ordinary official duties.
