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This is an extract from Dalton's fourth article published for the Asiatic Society

Letter by Col. E.T. Dalton C.S.I., Commissioner of Chutia Nagpur, on a large picture representing the conquest of Palamau in 1660 by Daud Khan, Aurangzib's General in Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol XLIII, Part I, pp240-241. click here for page 1  click here for page 2

Descriptions of two of Dalton's articles are contained in this link.

Centenary Review of the Asiatic Society of Bengal from 1784 to 1883, printed 1885. click here

Although this article is in French the compliments Mauss gives Dalton are apparent.

Marcel Maus (1913) L’ethnographie en France et à l’étranger, Extrait de la Revue de Paris, 20, 1913, pp. 537 à 560 et 815 à 837. click here to see extract.
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In the Annual General Meeting of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1873, the President, Professor Busk, F.R.S., praises Dalton's Ethnology, calling it one of the most important ethnological subjects to appear for many years. Click here to see extract.

Report on the Council of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland for 1873, The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol 3 (1873), 499-527.

Goodwin-Austin writes about some curious Naga Stone Statues that Colonel Dalton failed to mention [p 1 of the Word document]. He calls Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal  a 'beautiful book' [p3 of the Word document] but explains that it made an error in that he 'adopted an artificial divide between the Naga's east and west of the Doyang River'. [p3 of the word document]. Click here for the complete article

Goodwin-Austin, H. H., On the Rude Stone Monuments of Certain Naga Tribes, with Some Remarks on Their Customs, etc. The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol 4 (1875), 144-147

What Goodwin-Austin might not have realised was that it seems Dalton had in fact mentioned the Rude Stone Monuments in Chutia Nagpur in an article for the Asiatic Society in 1873 (Vol XLII. p. 112). click here to see the publication details. 

H. Risley writes about Ethnology in India, the past way it has been studied, and how to study it now. He is again critical of Edward's work, and points out imperfections in Dalton's work. Here are two extracts from the report where Dalton is mentioned, A PDF version of the article is also available'    

Risley H.H., The Study of Ethnology in India, The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol 20 (1891), 235-263.

'Herbert Risley, in his Presidential address on Methods of Enthnography in 1911 mentions Daltons work, in that in the past he had tried to settle a particular land dispute between a Hindu money lender and a Muslim grabber and that the dispute was still occurring 20 years on. Click here to see extract.

Risley H. The Methods of Ethnography, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 41 (Jan - Jun. 1911) 8-19'

The 1906 Dictionary of indian Biography by C.E. Buckland, C.I.E., has an entry for Dalton. click here

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