"What is now required is a carefully and scientifically edited Dictionary or Gazetteer of the Castes, and Tribes, and social distinctions of British India... The English Government has steadily ignored Caste, as far as the administration of public affairs is concerned... I am glad to hear that there is a prospect of an Ethnological Survey of British India."
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Robert Needham Cust, Linguistic and Oriental Essays: 1847 to 1887, · 1887, quoted in Chakrabarti, D. K., 1997. Colonial Indology: Sociopolitics of the Ancient Indian Past. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.124
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