Census of India 1931: with complete survey of tribal life and system

A well produced census report on a particular area is like a mirror of the people who live therein. The usefulness of such a report for the anthropological, socio-economic and cultural study of a people can not be too emphasized, it is all the more true about a country, full of variety of races, cultures, languages and natural resources, like India.
Since census surveys were started in India, in 1871 all aspects of the life of Indian people could not be covered for obvious reasons. It was possible only in the Census of 1931, thanks to the indefatigable labours of J. H. Hutton and his collaborators like B. S. Gu a The Report of the Census of India, 1931 is by far the most extensive; it covers all the aspects of Indian life, enthnological, social, economic and religious. The tribal population of India along with their social life, aspirations, economic conditions, etc. has been accorded, for the first time, a complete and scientific treatment in this report.
The work comprises three volumes, the last consisting of two parts. Volume one is the detailed report by J.H. Hutton and the most exhaustive study of the Indian people in general and of the tribal people in particular. Volume two contains all the statistical tables. Volume three, part A is by B. S. Guha, former anthropologist of the Zoological Survey of India. It marily deals with the physical anthropology including tables of racial likeness, and is the most important contribution to the physical anthropology of India since Sir Herbert Risley's work. The learned author has provided, at great pains and after lenghthy calculations, coefficients necessary for racial study. Many unsatisfactory conclusions of Risley have been rectified on the basis of firsthand meament data This part fresh on the racial const of Int Part B is a collection of papers on cultural anthropology, by rous experts of the subject.