Travels Amongst the Todas or the Study of a Primitive Tribe in South India, Their History, Character, Customs, Religion, Infanticide, Polyandry, Language; with outlines of the Tuda grammar

Lieutenant-Colonel William E. Marshall, Travels Amongst the Todas or the Study of a Primitive Tribe in South India, Their History, Character, Customs, Religion, Infanticide, Polyandry, Language; with outlines of the Tuda grammar, London: Longmans, Green, 1873

pp. xx, 271 + 26 plates and text illustrations; original slate grey cloth with gilt title on the spine
9 x 6 in (22.5 x 15 cm)

The author was an amateur ethnologist and avid phrenologist. Marshall, an Indian Army officer, lived among the pastoral Toda people of the Nilgiri plateau while on furlough in 1870. Although he did not speak their language, he decided to study the small tribe in order to uncover physiognomic proof of their “primitive nature.”.

The final chapter relates to the Tuda grammar and vocabulary. The Preface states: "I am beholden to the skill of the distinguished artists, Messrs. BOURNE and SHEPHERD, of Simla, and to Messrs. NICHOLAS and CURTHS, of Madras, for the photographs which decorate the book. These have been printed in carbon, by the Autotype Fine Art Company, 36 Rathbone Place, London." 16 PHOTOGRAPHS ARE BY THE TWO AFORESAID FIRMS. Of the rest, some are reproductions of line drawings as full-page Autotypes or text illustrations.

The attractive plates were produced using the Autotype reproduction process, a form of halftone printing developed by the Autotype Fine Art Company, founded in 1868.

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