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inhabitants of South Asia, reduced by them to a subordinate role. Thus although occupational descriptions were used, particularly in distinguishing the different ranks of Aryans, the hierarchy remained extreme (and definitively racial) in a form that was still probably unrecognisable to most participants in the social system itself at this time. In this way, although Risley's anthropometry had become unfashionable his views persisted.
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From this source Russell and Hira Lal reasoned that the tribals could probably be identified as the Rakshasas (or devils) described in the Mahabharata, and were therefore an entirely distinct community, the Brahmins, Kshatriyas and Vaishyas were Aryan invaders, and the Sudras were the original
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and his sympathisers as a mechanism for investigation of the racial origins of caste. According to Crispin Bates, this "highly anecdotal book" was influenced by
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Hartland, E. Sidney (30 September 1916). "The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India by R. V. Russell, Rai Bahadur Hira Lāl".
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Bates, Crispin (1995). "Race, Caste and Tribe in Central India: the early origins of Indian anthropometry". In Robb, Peter (ed.).
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Together with an amateur archaeologist, Rai Bahadur Hira Lal, Russell compiled
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Russell's father, Charles Robert Tilden Russell, was an officer in the
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R. V. Russell

Trinity College, Cambridge
Winchester College
Central Provinces
British India
1901 Census of India
Royal Navy
Winchester College
Trinity College, Cambridge
Indian Civil Service
Vedic
anthropometric
Herbert Hope Risley
Émile Senart
SS Persia
Crete

Kunbi people
Pola festival
Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India
Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India
Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India
Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India
Henry Scholberg
The district gazetteers of British India: A bibliography
ISBN
9780800212650
"Russell, Robert Vane"
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