On the other hand, there is no doubt that this method of treatment, if conscientiously followed out, will produce more exhaustive results than a general account.

Similar works for some other Provinces have already appeared, as Mr.W.Crooke's _Castes and Tribes of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh_, Mr.Edgar Thurston's _Castes and Tribes of Southern India_, and Mr.Ananta Krishna Iyer's volumes on Cochin, while a Glossary for the Punjab by Mr.H.A.

Rose has been partly published.

The articles on Religions and Sects were not in the original scheme of the work, but have been subsequently added as being necessary to render it a complete ethnological account of the population.

In several instances the adherents of the religion or sect are found only in very small numbers in the Province, and the articles have been compiled from standard works.
In the preparation of the book much use has necessarily been made of the standard ethnological accounts of other parts of India, especially Colonel Tod's _Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan_, Mr.J.D.