[Lectures and papers on various topics]. 1915-23?
Various papers, 1 notebook. Various sizes.
Handwritten and typewritten. Handwritten unless stated otherwise. Presented by Mr J.E. Crooke, 11 March 1955.
/1 [Hair] – ‘The customs and superstitions connected with the wearing of the hair…’. 76 pp., numbered leaves 1-36, [pp. 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 22, 24, 26, 30, 32 blank]. Some of the text on the reverse pages is unconnected. 19 x 18 cm (pp. 1-2); 25.5 x 20 cm (pp. 3-4); 23 x 18.5 cm (pp. 6-32); 18 x 18.5 cm (pp. 33-34); 32 x 20 cm (pp. 35-36, 39-76); 19.5 x 20 cm (pp. 37-38)
/2 [Nudity] – ‘Though, like that of other residents in tropical climates, the clothing of the people of India is fairly scanty, they cannot be described as a naked people…’ 36 pp., numbered leaves 1-18. Text on the reverse pages is unconnected. 1 note attached to p.13, 1 note attached to p.19. 23 x 19 cm (pp.1-22, 25-36); 16.5 x 19 cm (pp.23-24)
/3 Harold Cox to William Crooke, 9 Apr. 1923 – article not suitable for Edinburgh Review; suggests proper place is Blackwoods. 1 p. 23 x 17.5 cm. Typewritten
[Cataloguer’s note: Letter found at this point, but no indication as to which article it applies, and may be out of sequence after such a lapse of time, possibly MS132/5-6]
/4 ‘I have thus at length which may be I fear considered excessive endeavoured to bring before you some considerations which may attract your interest to a race which possesses no historic annals…’ [letter?]. 2 pp. 25.5 x 18 cm
/5 Head-hunting in India – ‘Anthropology, a new and progressive science, must occasionally revise its doctrines, and this is particularly the case in India…’ 23 pp., numbered leaves 1-11, [pp. 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 blank]. 25.5 x 20 cm. [Draft copy of MS 132/6]
/6 Head-hunting in India; W. Crooke. 12 leaves. 26.5 x 20 cm. Typewritten. [Final draft of MS132/5]
/7 The progress of Islam in British India. 21 leaves. Handwritten references on reverse of leaves 1-19. 32 x 20.5 cm. Typewritten with handwritten corrections
/8 [Culture in the Indian Peninsula] – ‘I propose this evening, with your permission, to discuss two distinct types of culture in the Indian peninsula…’: [lecture]. 28 leaves, numbered 1-13, 23-28. 4 slips, originally pinned, attached to reverse leaf 1. 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Typewritten with handwritten corrections
/9 The Caliphate: [lecture]. 18 leaves. 25.5 x 20 cm
/10 [The Caliphate] – ‘There are few problems in the religious history of the world than that of the caliphate, … more obscure owing to the religious fanaticism in which it has evolved…’ 17 pp., numbered leaves 1-8, 8. 25.5 x 20.5 cm
/11 The transmission of culture: [lecture]. 25 leaves. 25.5 x 20 cm. Typewritten
/12 Cheltenham Natural Science Society: [ report of meeting 15 March 1915 at which William Crooke delivered a lecture ‘The transmission of culture’]. 1 p. 25.5 x 20 cm
/13 [Hinduism] – ‘No one can accept with a light heart the honour of an invitation to address you on the subject of Hinduism…’: [lecture]. 40 leaves [and] 1 handwritten page pasted to p.30, 17.5 x 11 cm. 25.5 x 20.5 cm (leaves 1-21, 23-40); 22.5 x 20.5 cm (leaf 22). Typewritten. [Final copy of MS132/14].
/14 [Hinduism]. 34 leaves, text on reverse leaves 3, 6, 23, 25, 32. 1 handwritten note pasted to each leaf 7, 25 and 26. 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Typewritten with handwritten corrections and amendments. [Draft copy of MS132/13]
/15 Fairyland: [lecture]. 27 leaves. 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Typewritten with handwritten corrections
/16 [Khandh – Khond] – ‘A Dravidian tribe numbering at the Census of 1901 … were recorded as animists and the remainder Hindus…’ 17 pp., numbered leaves 1-15, [p.16 blank]. 25.5 x 20 cm (p.1-16), handwritten; 22.5 x 18.5 cm (p.17), typewritten
/17 [The Malabar Coast] – ‘stretching from Goa on the north to Cape Comorin at the southern extremity…’ 22 leaves, text on reverse of leaves 1, 3-4, 7-8, 10-11, 17, 20. 1 slip attached to leaf 14. 25.5 x 20 cm
/18 [List of references]. 1 p. 19.5 x 16 cm
/19 [List of uncut slips]. 4 leaves. 19.5 x 14 cm
/20 [Jonathan Swift] – ‘In one, almost momentary, lapse from his delightful chatter about trifles…’. 38 pp., numbered leaves 1-19. 2 notes attached to p. 6, 1 note attached to p. 7, 1 note attached to p. 17. 25.5 x 20.5 cm
/21 White and brown: [lecture]. 48 leaves, text on reverse of leaves 6, 7, 27. l p. notes attached to reverse of leaf 27. Bound in blue paper wrappers of The Big 1d. scribbling book. 25 x 18.5 cm
