Illustrations

Volume I

1. [Hindu temple of the god Siva] 16
2. [Hindu sculptures] 26
3. [Peasant’s hut] 40
4. [Group of religious mendicants] 56
5. [Drawing water from the village well] 72
6. [Gāyatri or sacred verse personified as a goddess] 108
7. [Image of the god Jagannāth, a form of Vishnu] 118
8. [The god Rāma, an incarnation of Vishnu, with attendant deities] 144
9. [Hindu bathing party] 158
10. [Pilgrims carrying Ganges water] 184
11. [A meeting of the Arya Samāj for investing boys with the sacred thread] 202
12. [Jain temples at Muktagiri, Betul] 220
13. [Jain ascetics with cloth before mouth and sweeping-brush] 224
14. [Jain gods in attitude of contemplation] 228
15. [Jain temple in Seoni] 230
16. [Kabīr] 232
17. [Beggar on artificial horse at the Muharram festival] 248
18. [Carrying the horse-shoe at the Muharram festival] 252
19. [Tāzia or tombs of Hussain at the Muharram festival] 256
20. [Famous Tāzia at Khandwa] 260
21. [Representing a tiger at the Muharram festival] 272
22. [Temple of Siva at Bāndakpur, near Damoh] 302
23. [Images of Siva and his consort Devi, or Pārvati, with the bull and tiger] 304
24. [Devotees, possessed, embracing each other, while supported on tridents, at Siva’s fair at Pachmarhi] 306
25. [Image of the prophet Swāmi Nārāyan in the Teli temple at Burhānpur] 326
26. [Images of Rāma, Lachman and Sīta, with attendants] 330
27. [Image of Lakshmi, the Goddess of Wealth, the consort of Vishnu, with attendant] 332
28. [Image of the boar incarnation of Vishnu] 334
29. [Bahrūpia impersonating the goddess Kāli] 344
30. [Dāsari religious mendicant with discus and conch-shell of Vishnu] 406

Volume II

31. Aghori mendicant 14
32. Ahīrs decorated with cowries for the Stick Dance at Diwāli 18
33. Image of Krishna as Murlidhar or the flute-player, with attendant deities 28
34. Ahīr dancers in Diwāli costume 32
35. Pinjāra cleaning cotton 72
36. Baiga village, Bālāghāt District 88
37. Hindu mendicants with sect-marks 94
38. Anchorite sitting on iron nails 98
39. Pilgrims carrying water of the river Nerbudda 100
40. Coloured Plate: Examples of Tilaks or sect-marks worn on the forehead 102
41. Group of Mārwāri Bania women 112
42. Image of the god Ganpati carried in procession 116
43. The elephant-headed god Ganpati. His conveyance is a rat, which can be seen as a little blob between his feet 120
44. Mud images made and worshipped at the Holi festival 126
45. Bania’s shop 128
46. Banjāra women with the singh or horn 184
47. Group of Banjāra women 188
48. Basors making baskets of bamboo 210
49. Bhāt with his putla or doll 256
50. Group of Bhīls 278
51. Tantia Bhīl, a famous dacoit 282
52. Group of Bohras at Burhānpur (Nimār) 346
53. Brāhman worshipping his household gods 380
54. Brāhman bathing party 384
55. Brāhman Pujāris or priests 390
56. Group of Marātha Brāhman men 392
57. Group of Nāramdeo Brāhman women 396
58. Group of Nāramdeo Brāhman men 398
59. Chamārs tanning and working in leather 416
60. Chamārs cutting leather and making shoes 418
61. Chhīpa or calico-printer at work 430
62. Dhīmar or fisherman’s hut 502
63. Fishermen in dug-outs or hollowed tree trunks 506
64. Group of Gurujwāle Fakīrs 538

Volume III

65. Gond women grinding corn 42
66. Palace of the Gond kings of Garha-Mandla at Rāmnagar 46
67. Gonds on a journey 62
68. Killing of Rāwan, the demon king of Ceylon, from whom the Gonds are supposed to be descended 114
69. Woman about to be swung round the post called Meghnāth 116
70. Climbing the pole for a bag of sugar 118
71. Gonds with their bamboo carts at market 122
72. Gond women, showing tattooing on backs of legs 126
73. Māria Gonds in dancing costume 136
74. Gondhali musicians and dancers 144
75. Gosain mendicant 150
76. Alakhwāle Gosains with faces covered with ashes 152
77. Gosain mendicants with long hair 154
78. Famous Gosain Mahant. Photograph taken after death 156
79. Gūjar village proprietress and her land agent 168
80. Guraos with figures made at the Holi festival called Gangour 176
81. Group of Gurao musicians with their instruments 180
82. Ploughing with cows and buffaloes in Chhattīsgarh 182
83. Halwai or confectioner’s shop 202
84. Jogi mendicants of the Kanphata sect 244
85. Jogi musicians with sārangi or fiddle 250
86. Kaikāris making baskets 298
87. Kanjars making ropes 332
88. A group of Kasārs or brass-workers 370
89. Dancing girls and musicians 374
90. Girl in full dress and ornaments 378
91. Old type of sugarcane mill 494
92. Group of Kol women 512
93. Group of Kolams 520
94. Korkus of the Melghāt hills 550
95. Korku women in full dress 556
96. Koshti men dancing a figure, holding strings and beating sticks 582

Volume IV

97. Potter at his wheel 4
98. Group of Kunbis 16
99. Figures of animals made for Pola festival 40
100. Hindu boys on stilts 42
101. Throwing stilts into the water at the Pola festival 46
102. Carrying out the dead 48
103. Pounding rice 60
104. Sowing 84
105. Threshing 86
106. Winnowing 88
107. Women grinding wheat and husking rice 90
108. Group of women in Hindustāni dress 92
109. Coloured Plate: Examples of spangles worn by women on the forehead 106
110. Weaving: sizing the warp 142
111. Winding thread 144
112. Bride and bridegroom with marriage crowns 166
113. Bullocks drawing water with mot 170
114. Māng musicians with drums 186
115. Statue of Marātha leader, Bīmbāji Bhonsla, in armour 200
116. Image of the god Vishnu as Vithoba 248
117. Coolie women with babies slung at the side 256
118. Hindu men showing the choti or scalp-lock 272
119. Snake-charmer with cobras 292
120. Transplanting rice 340
121. Group of Pardhāns 350
122. Little girls playing 400
123. Gujarāti girls doing figures with strings and sticks 402
124. Ornaments 524
125. Teli’s oil-press 544
126. The Goddess Kāli 574
127. Wāghya mendicants 604