INDIAN CASTE. BY THE LATE JOHN WILSON, D.D., F.R.S., HONORARY PRESIDENT OF THE BOMBAY BRANCH OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, AND MISSIONARY OF THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. TIMES OF INDIA OFFICE, WILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, All rights reserved. WHEN Dr. Wilson died in December 1875, he left no instructions as to the future disposal of the work on Caste on which he had been engaged at intervals for the last twenty years of his life. A cursory inspection of the vast mass of papers which Dr. Wilson left led me to hope that ample material existed for a continuation of the work, if not for its absolute completion. Accordingly, after a delay caused by the necessity of going through all the papers for purposes connected with the winding up of the Estate, all those that seemed to appertain to Dr. Wilson's literary activity were sent to Mr Andrew Wilson, into whose hands the task of completing the Book from material existing in manuscript would naturally have fallen. But the result of a careful investigation was to satisfy the family that nothing would be gained by attempting to add materially to the work as Dr. Wilson left it; and, accordingly, I was requested to have it brought out without further delay. |