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K. Rangachari
A botanist and ethnologist from colonial South India, he helped document the region's communities and plant life in works that still circulate today. His writing brings together close observation, field knowledge, and an early scholarly effort to record everyday social worlds.
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A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
by K. Rangachari, C. Tadulinga Mudaliyar
About the author
Born in September 1868, Diwan Bahadur Kadambi Rangachari was an Indian botanist and ethnologist. He worked in South India and became known both for scientific teaching and for careful descriptive writing about the peoples and environments of the region.
He is best remembered as the assistant and co-worker of Edgar Thurston on the seven-volume Castes and Tribes of Southern India, published in 1909. He also taught botany at the agricultural college in Coimbatore and wrote on plant life, including a botany textbook and other works connected with South Indian grasses.
Rangachari died on May 10, 1934. For readers today, his work offers a window into the research methods and social record-keeping of his time, especially in the fields of ethnography and botany.