Thacker S Indian Directory

An indispensable volume written by the director of Ethnology in India, Herbert Risley. It gives a very full and scholarly account concerning the people of India. Chapter one classifies the people according to their physical types; chapter 2 classifies them according to the social types; chapter three is a very amusing section of the proverbs and popular saying of the people about themselves. Chapter four concerns the rituals of caste and marriage; Chapter 5 is on caste and religion, chapter 6 discuss the origins of caste, and chapter 7 notices caste and nationality. At the end are 7 appendices that give information on proverbs, maps of caste, anthropometric data, infant marriage laws, modern theories of caste, Kulin polygamy and the santhal and munda tribes. The book has 35 illustrations. This book is a reprint of the 1915 edition.

This book takes us on a journey reliving the lifetime of one wealthy, unique spiritual family who devotedly raised their intelligent and good looking son and daughter only to eventually discover that their wealth and their parenting skills could not guarantee their desired goals for success for their children. Wealth can be used to purchase all of the luxuries in life with, but it cannot procure the desired positive personality characteristics which parents would want to bestow on their children. Additionally wealth cannot protect their children from making wrong choices or shelter them from the consequences of wrong choices which they have made along lifes road. Money and fortune as this family discovered can only be used to establish status in the community and provide the ability to afford luxuries. The lessons learned while reading this near true to life story should eventually be shared with movie goers throughout the world so that parents could receive a glimpse of insight into what their highest priorities should be as they experience their own family life. This story is riveting.