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Thomas Lambert Barlow
1831–1910
Best known for helping preserve stories from the Indus region, this Anglo-Indian civil servant turned local oral tradition into a book that still draws readers today. His surviving record is modest, but his work offers a rare window into colonial-era encounters with South Asian folklore.
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Oral Tradition from the Indus Comprised in Tales to Which Are Added Explanatory Notes
by John Frederick Adolphus McNair, Thomas Lambert Barlow
About the author
Born on July 26, 1831, in Cannamore in the Madras Presidency, he was an Anglo-Indian civil servant as well as a writer. The clearest surviving bibliographic records for him are sparse, but they consistently identify him with British India and with a literary interest in regional storytelling.
He is chiefly remembered for Oral Tradition from the Indus, published in 1908 with John Frederick Adolphus McNair. The book gathers tales and explanatory notes drawn from the Indus region, and it remains the work most closely associated with his name in modern library and public-domain catalogs.
He died on November 3, 1910. I could not confirm a reliable, clearly identified portrait from the sources available, so no profile image is included.