Sir Herbert Hope Risley was a British ethnographer and colonial administrator, a member of the Indian Civil Service who conducted extensive studies on the tribes and castes of the Bengal Presidency.
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The nasal index: a method of classifying ethnicity based on the ratio of the breadth of a nose to its height, Developed by Paul Topinard. "Narrow" noses (Types 1-5) indicate European origin; "medium" noses (Type 6) are the "yellow races"; and "broad" are either African (Type 7) or Melanesian and Australian aboriginal (Type 8).![The map of the prevailing "races" of India (now discredited[according to whom?]) based on the 1901 Census of British Map of India purporting to show distribution of races](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6f/India1909PrevailingRaces.JPG/1280px-India1909PrevailingRaces.JPG)
The map of the prevailing "races" of India (now discredited[according to whom?]) based on the 1901 Census of British Map of India purporting to show distribution of racesAwards 1
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Sir Herbert Hope Risley was a British ethnographer and colonial administrator, a member of the Indian Civil Service who conducted extensive studies on the tribes and castes of the Bengal Presidency. He is notable for the formal identification of the centuries old established caste system of the entire Hindu population of British India in the 1901 census, of which he was in charge. As an exponent of scientific racism, he used anthropometric data to divide Indians into seven races.
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