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About The Book: 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. About The Editors: Sir John William Kaye KCSI FRS (3 June 1814–24 July 1876) was a British military historian, civil servant and army officer. His major works on military history include a three-volume work on The History of the Sepoy War in India. This work was revised later by George Bruce Malleson and published in six volumes in 1890 as Kaye and Malleson's History of the Indian Mutiny. John Forbes Watson: John Forbes Watson (1827–1892) was a Scottish physician and writer on India. Born in Scotland, Watson was the son of an Aberdeenshire farmer, George Watson and his wife Jean McHardy. He was educated at the University of Aberdeen, where he graduated M.A. in March 1847, and M.D. on 5 August 1847. He completing his medical studies at Guy's Hospital, London, and in Paris. Watson was appointed assistant surgeon in the Bombay army medical service in August 1850. He served with the artillery at Ahmednagar and with the Scinde horse at Khangarh (Jacobadad), and was then appointed assistant surgeon to the Jamsetjee Hospital and lecturer on physiology at Grant Medical College. There for a time he also acted as professor of medicine and lecturer on clinical medicine.