This exhibition includes sample illustrations from the six volume work:
 
"The People of India. A series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan, (by Meadows Taylor,) originally prepared under the authority of the Government of India, and reproduced by order of the Secretary of State for India" Edited by J.F. Watson and J.W. Kaye.
 
This book by Colonel Philip Meadows Taylor was published by W. H. Allen and Co.: London, (1868-72) attempted to classify the diverse races of India by means of photographs.
 
A fascimile reprint of the original 1867 eight volume edition was published in 1987 by B.R. Publishing, Delhi and includes 468 b/w illustrations from original photographs, with descriptive text.