Edgar Thurston
Edgar Thurston CIE (1855-1935) was a British museologist and ethnographer working in colonial Southern India. In 1885 he was appointed to the Madras Government Museum, where he held the role of Superintendent. Among other published works, he wrote the seven volumes of Castes and Tribes of Southern India, which was a part of the Ethnographic Survey of India project to which he was appointed in 1901 following the success of Herbert Hope Risley's Ethnographic Survey of Bengal.[1]
He was assisted in the writing of Castes and Tribes by a colleague from the museum, K. Rangachari, who had also assisted him in a 1906 ethnographic study, Ethnographic Notes in Southern India. Rangachari had supplied most of the forty photographs used in this earlier study.[1] The September 1910 edition of Nature described the work as
a monumental record of the varied phases of south Indian tribal life, the traditions, manners and customs of people. Though in some respects it may be corrected or supplemented by future research it will long retain its value as an example of out-door investigation, and will remain a veritable mine of information, which will be of value
Thurston was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind, first class, on 26 June 1902.[2]
Some marine organisms were named after him: Manaria thurstoni (E.A. Smith, 1906), Sepia thurstoni (W. Adam & W. J. Rees, 1966), Mobula thurstoni (Lloyd, 1908), Ecteinascidia thurstoni (Herdman, 1890).[3]
Works
- Thurston, Edgar (1888). Coins - Catalogue No. 1: Mysore. Madras: Government Central Museum. http://www.archive.org/details/coinsindiamad00goveuoft. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- Thurston, Edgar (1888). Catalogue of the Batrachia, Salientia and Apoda (Frogs, Toads, and Coecilians) of Southern India. Madras: Government Press. http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofbatra00thur. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- Thurston, Edgar (1889). Coins - Catalogue No. 3: Sultans of Dehlı́. Madras: Government Central Museum. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008432557. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- Thurston, Edgar (1992) [1890 Madras: Government Central Museum]. History of the coinage of the territories of the East India company in the Indian peninsula and catalogue of the coins in the Madras museum (Reprinted ed.). New Delhi: Asian Educational Services. ISBN 9788120607200. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RJulW2GX4gkC. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- Thurston, Edgar (1890). Notes on the pearl and chank fisheries and marine fauna of the Gulf of Manaar. Madras: Government Central Museum. http://www.archive.org/details/notesonpearlchan00thur. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- Thurston, Edgar (1894). Coins - Catalogue No. 2: Roman, Indo-Portuguese, and Ceylon (2nd ed.). Madras: Government Central Museum. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008432556. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- Thurston, Edgar (1894). "Pearl and Chank Fisberies of the Gulf of Manaar". Bulletin (Madras: Madras Government Museum) (1). http://www.archive.org/details/bulletin02indigoog. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- Thurston, Edgar (1896). "Anthropology of the Todas and Kotas of the Nilgiri Hills : and of the Bráhmans, Kammálans, Pallis, and Pariahs of Madras City". Bulletin (Madras: Madras Government Museum) (4). http://www.archive.org/details/anthropologyofto00thur. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- Thurston, Edgar (2004). "Kadirs Of Anaimarais - Malaialis Of Shevaroys - The Dravidian Head - Dravidian Problem". Bulletin (New Delhi: Asian Educational Services) 2 (3). ISBN 9788120618596. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uKLDRKsiOm4C. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- Thurston, Edgar (1900). "Anthropology: Notes on some of the people of Malagar - Mala Vedars of Travancore - Miscellenea". Bulletin (Madras: Madras Government Museum) 3 (1). http://www.archive.org/details/bulletin01indigoog. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- Thurston, Edgar (1903). "Anthropology: Visions of the Uralis and Sholagars - More Marriage Customs in Southern India - Hook-Swinging - Paliyans". Bulletin (Madras: Madras Government Museum) 5 (1). http://www.archive.org/details/bulletin00indigoog. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- Thurston, Edgar (1906). Ethnographic Notes in Southern India. Madras: Government Press. http://www.archive.org/details/ethnographicnot01edgagoog. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- Thurston, Edgar; Rangachari, K. (1909). Castes and Tribes of Southern India. I (A and B). Madras: Government Press. http://www.archive.org/details/castestribesofso01thuriala. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- Thurston, Edgar; Rangachari, K. (1909). Castes and Tribes of Southern India. II (C to J). Madras: Government Press. http://www.archive.org/details/castestribesofso02thuruoft. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- Thurston, Edgar; Rangachari, K. (1909). Castes and Tribes of Southern India. III (K). Madras: Government Press. http://www.archive.org/details/castestribesofso03thuriala. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- Thurston, Edgar; Rangachari, K. (1909). Castes and Tribes of Southern India. IV (K to M). Madras: Government Press. http://www.archive.org/details/castestribesofso04thuriala. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- Thurston, Edgar; Rangachari, K. (1909). Castes and Tribes of Southern India. V (M to P). Madras: Government Press. http://www.archive.org/details/castestribesofso05thuriala. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- Thurston, Edgar; Rangachari, K. (1909). Castes and Tribes of Southern India. VI (P to S). Madras: Government Press. http://www.archive.org/details/castestribesofso06thuriala. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- Thurston, Edgar; Rangachari, K. (1909). Castes and Tribes of Southern India. VII (T to Z). Madras: Government Press. http://www.archive.org/details/castestribesofso07thuriala. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- Thurston, Edgar (1912). Omens and Superstitions of Southern India. New York: McBride, Nast & Company. http://www.archive.org/details/omenssuperstitio00thur. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- Thurston, Edgar (1913). Holland, T. H.. ed. The Madras Presidency, with Mysorg, Coorg and the Associated States. Provincial Geographies of India. 3. Cambridge: University Press. http://www.archive.org/details/provincialgeogra03holluoft. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- Thurston, Edgar; Vigurs, Chambré C. (1922). A Supplement to F. Hamilton Davey's Flora of Cornwall. Truro: Royal Institution of Cornwall. http://www.archive.org/details/supplementtofham00thurrich. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
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