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MR. CROOKE'S book appears in a series edited by Mr. N. W Thomas which, to quote the general preface, βis intended to supply in handy and readable form the needs of those who wish to learn something of the life of the uncivilised rades of our Empire.β To Mr. Crooke has been entusted the task of describing the races of northern India, and we may at once state that he has achieved very considerable success. The area covered, extending from Afghanistan to the Chinese frontier, is so great, and its aspects are so complicated, that not even such an authority as this distinguished scholar could venture into details within the limits of the two hundred and fifty odd pages at his disposal; but he has given a broad general view, sketching in with a few accurate and telling strokes the more prominent features of the landscape, so that the whole presents a satisfactory and attractive summary of the racial characteristics of an important section of the British Empire.
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Two Works On Indian Ethnography 1 . Nature 76, 79β81 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076079b0
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