A Series of Photographic Illustrations, with Descriptive Letterpress, of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan

Compiled and Edited by J. Forbes Watson & J. W. Kaye.

This work, originally commissioned by the Government of India, is one of the great photographic books of the Nineteenth Century.

A classic finally brought back as a complete reprint by Pagoda Tree Press.

It was the first comprehensive pictorial study of India’s native population and was originally published in 1868, in 8 folio volumes.

Lavishly illustrated, with 468 individually mounted albumen print photographs, it provided a stunning visual record of the multiplicity of Castes, Tribes and Trades that made up the diverse population of the sub-continent in the mid 19th century.

Pagoda Tree Press have now produced a compact new edition, taken directly from a fine copy of the original work, comprising the entire text and all the 468 photographic illustrations of the original.

Re-typeset into a 2 volume set; ideal as a practicable reference copy of an otherwise almost unobtainable work.