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R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
1873–1915
A British civil servant and ethnographer in colonial India, he is best remembered for organizing major studies of the peoples of the Central Provinces. His work became especially well known through the multi-volume The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, published after his death.
4 Audiobooks
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1
by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 2
by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 4
by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 3
by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
About the author
Born on August 8, 1873, Robert Vane Russell served in the Indian Civil Service during the period of British rule in India. He worked closely with census and ethnographic administration, including service as Superintendent of Census Operations for the 1901 Census of India in the Central Provinces.
Russell is chiefly associated with ethnographic research on communities in what was then the Central Provinces of British India. As Superintendent of Ethnography, he coordinated the gathering and publication of material on social groups across the region, work that helped shape how the province was described in official records.
He died on December 30, 1915. His name remains most closely linked to The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, a large reference work issued in 1916 that preserved and extended the research he had overseen.