John Henry Hutton

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John Henry Hutton ( June 27, 1885 - May 23, 1968 ) was a British ethnographer and colonial administrator in India . He served as a British civil servant in Bengal and Assam until 1938 .

His main work on the Indian caste system, published several times, is considered the standard work .

Hutton worked in the Naga Hills ( Assam ) and wrote valuable ethnographic monographs on various Naga ethnic groups : Sema Naga (1921), Angami Naga (1921), Lhota Naga (1922) and Ao Naga (1926).

He collaborated on the 1931 Comprehensive Indian Census, the report of which he published in 1933.

He was one of the great collectors for the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford .

Fonts

  • Caste in India: its nature, function and origins. 4th ed. London [u. a.]: Oxford Univ. Pr. 1963 (first published in 1946) digitized version (3rd edition )
  • A primitive philosophy of life. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1938
  • Census of India. 1933
  • The Ao Nagas. London, 1926
  • The Lhota Nagas: With an introduction and supplementary notes. London, 1922
  • The Angami Nagas: With some notes on neighboring tribes ; with maps and ill. London: Macmillan 1921
  • The Sema Nagas. London: Macmillan 1921

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SURNAME Hutton, John Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1885
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1968