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It was decided by the Government of India in 1885 to make a comprehensive field survey for precise information about the way of life, manners and customs, rituals, marriage practices etc. of the tribes, castes, sub-castes of the country for better administration and ethnographic research. Civilian Risley was charged with Eastern India or the then ‘Bengal’. Six Years of intensive study and survey conducted by Mr. H.H. Risley, I.C.S. went before the publication ...
On the northern border of the British district of Darjeeling, the main chain of the Himalayas throws out to the southward two enormous spurs the Singilela and Chola ranges. These almost impassable barriers enclose three sides of a gigantic amphitheatre, hewn, as it were, out of the Himalaya, and sloping down on its southern or open side towards the plains of India. The tracts of mountainous country thus shut in consist of a tangled series of interlacing ...