ABSTRACT
The ethnographic survey of the tribes and castes of Bengal in 1885–88, which was supplemented by the collection of anthropometric data, was the making of H. H. Risley as an anthropologist. In the late 1880s, Risley also began to write up his material as addresses to learned societies and articles for journals and magazines, and he completed his handbook, The Tribes and Castes of Bengal, in two ethnographic and two anthropometric volumes, which the government of Bengal published in 1891.
