Weaving, Nuts, and warriors! Explore "The People of India" study in detail as you transcribe photos and plates of Indian culture groups, activities, and occupations including books, buildings, barbers, and blacksmiths.
Weaving, Nuts, and warriors! Explore "The People of India" study in detail as you transcribe photos and plates of Indian culture groups, activities, and occupations including books, buildings, barbers, and blacksmiths.
Do you know details of occupations and the caste system from the 1850s and 1860s? What's a Nut? What makes a moghul a Moghul and why are Brahmins powerful? The ethnological study "The People of India" is a multi-volume collection comprising descriptions and images of Indian regions and their populations gathered by British photographers. Documenting the caste and culture groups of India for a British India Office multi-volume publication, these images were captured in the 1850s and 1860s.
Indian culture groups portrayed include Bhogta, Bhoti, Chero, Dombo, Gond, Gujarati, Ho, Kachari, Kishangarh, Kota, Lepcha, Mishmi, Munda, Naga, Pahari, Paithan, Rajput, Saora, Singpho, Thakur, Tharu, and Toda. Peoples portrayed are from parts of India and surrounding areas, now in Afghanistan, Burma, Iran and Pakistan, such as Assam, Bareli, Behat, Cachar, Chittagong, Delhi, Hazara, Hisar, Kohat, Lahore, Madras, Munjpur, Mysore, Palamau, Shahabad, Shahjahanpur, Sikkim, and Sind.
Please note that some language in this collection may be culturally insensitive or offensive to some viewers. It is presented as it exists in the original document for the benefit of research. The material reflects the culture and context in which it was created and not the views of the Smithsonian Institution.
Transcribe the fourth volume to help researchers and others learn about populations and relationships in India in the mid-nineteenth century; this collection can be explored in greater detail via Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
