The people of India : A series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan, originally prepared under the authority of the government of India, and reproduced
An eight-volume ethnographic photographic survey of Indian races and tribes, compiled by the India Museum from government-commissioned photographs and issued in London from 1868 for colonial officials and scholars. Albumen portraits, oval or arch-topped and mounted on plain leaves with small letterpress caption panels, record turbans, shawls, jewellery, pipes and weapons in muted sepia against blank studio walls.
