The People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations with Descriptive Letterpress of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan

A visual survey with texts on the ethic and cultural diversity of South Asia, The People of India was conceived and published under the guidance of John Forbes Watson and John William kaye. The eight volumes contain 468 albumen photographs printed from copy negatives of photographs taken by over 15 British photographers during the 1850s and 1860s. The People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations with Descriptive Letterpress, of the Races and Tribes of Hindustan. There were none perhaps in whom this interest was awakened more strongly than in Lord and Lady canning. It was their wish to early home with them, at the end of their sojourn in India, a collection obtained by private means, of photographic illustrations, which might recall to their memory the peculiarities of Indian life. Originally prepared under the authority of the Government of India, and reproduced by order of the secretary of State for India in council.