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MR. GRIGSON'S anthropological investigations were undertaken largely owing to the suggestion of the late Sir Montague Butler; but his immediate objective in his contact with them was the remedy of certain grievances, more especially those caused by the application in a primitive State, of criminal, civil and revenue laws framed for British Indian districts some centuries more advanced. He found that it was by observation of their ceremonies and rituals and their daily occupations, as well as by inquiry into their family and social organization—in short through thorough-going anthropological investigation, by which science is the richer in this volume—that he was best able to arrive at their genuine and inmost opinions of, and attitude towards, the methods by which their affairs were being administered. Hence he was able, as Prof. Hutton says in his introduction, to introduce certain reforms.
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By W. V. Grigson. Pp. xxi + 350 + 24 plates. (London: Oxford University Press, 1938.) 30s. net.
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Archaeology and Ethnology. Nature 144, 1076 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/1441076a0
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