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This concise volume is the authors attempt to describe the environment, race types, social and industrial life and the religious beliefs of the people of Northern India. When the author mentions Northern India he means all of the areas north of the Vindiya Mountians; it includes Jammu and Kashmir, the N.E. States, Punjab, Bengal, Rajasthan etc. Some notes are also offered on the NWFP and the Afghan tribes. This book wishes to attract the ordinary reader with a narration of the habits and customs of the people of the area mentioned. The book is divided into 16 chapters and some chapters offer observations on as many as 22 separate tribes. About the Author W. Crooke was born in 1848; educated: Tipperary Grammar School; Trinity College, Dublin; Indian Civil Service, 1871-1895; Collector and Magistrate at various times of the districts of Saharanpur, Gorakhpur, Mirzapur in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh; wrote prolifically on India, particularly on Ethnology, Anthropology and Folklore; died, 1923.