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Lewis Sydney Steward O’Malley, also known as L. S. S. O'Malley (1874-1941), one of the most scholarly colonial, ‘official’ anthropologists in British India, was a member of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) from 1898 to 1924.

Biography

Lewis Sydney Steward O’Malley was born on 23 October 1874 at Flitcham, Freebridge Lynn, Norfolk, England. He was the son of Bryan O’Malley, a minister. He married Ida Sewell Prichard on 24 November 1900 at The Cathedral, Calcutta, India. He died in 1941 at Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Lewis was the British Civil Servant in India. He was educated in Norwich Grammar School and Hertford College, Oxford (B. A.). In 1898, he entered I.C.S. He worked as Magistrate and Collector in Bengal for quite a few years. Later, he served in General and Revenue Department in Bengal as a civil servant. He got retired in 1924 as C.I.E. During his lifetime, he published several books, such as Bengal District Gazetteers, Santal Parganas, and Purnea. He was the editor of the whole series. He also wrote Indian Caste Customs in 1934, Popular Hinduism in 1935, and Modern India and the West in 1941.

Books and Articles

• Baden-Powell, B. H. 1896. The Indian Village Community. London: Longmans.
• Blunt, E. A. H. 1931. The Caste System of Northern India. London: Oxford University Press.
• Crooke, W. 1896a. The Tribes and Castes of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, 4 vols. Calcutta: Government Printing.
• Crooke, W. 1896b. The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, 2 vols. London: Archibald Constable.
• Dumont, Louis. 1970 (1967). Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and its Implications. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
• Fuller, C. J. 2016. Colonial Anthropology and the Decline of the Raj: Caste, Religion and Political Change in India in the Early Twentieth Century. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 26, 3: 463–86.
• Fuller, C. J. 2022. Ethnography and Racial Theory in the British Raj: The Anthropological Work of H. H. Risley. BEROSE International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology, Paris.
• Fuller, C. J. 2023. Colonial Ethnography and Theories of Caste in Late-Nineteenth-Century India. BEROSE International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology, Paris.
• Hunter, W. W., ed. 1875-7. A Statistical Account of Bengal, 20 vols. London: Trübner.
• Mandelbaum, David G. 1970. Society in India. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• O’Malley, L. S. S. 1903. Gayā Çrāddha and Gayāwāls. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 72, pt. 3: 1–11.
• O’Malley, L. S. S. 1906. Gaya (Bengal District Gazetteers, vol. 3). Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Book Depot.
• O’Malley, L. S. S. 1931. The Indian Civil Service, 1601-1930. London: John Murray.
• O’Malley, L. S. S. 1932. Indian Caste Customs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• O’Malley, L. S. S. 1934. India’s Social Heritage. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• O’Malley, L. S. S. 1935. Popular Hinduism: The Religion of the Masses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• O’Malley, L. S. S.(ed.) 1941. Modern India and the West: A Study of the Interactions of their Civilizations. London: Oxford University Press.
• Parry, Jonathan P. 1994. Death in Banaras. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Risley, H. H. 1891. The Tribes and Castes of Bengal: Ethnographic Glossary, 2 vols. Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Press.
• Senart, Émile. 1930 (1896). Caste in India: The Facts and the System (trans. E. Denison Ross). London: Methuen.
• Spear, T. G. P. 1961. British Historical Writing in the Era of the Nationalist Movements, in C. H. Philips, ed., Historians of India, Pakistan and Ceylon, 404-15. London: Oxford University Press.
• Srinivas, M. N. 1996. Social Change in Modern India. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Census Reports

• Census of India, 1911, vol. 1, India, pt. 1, Report, by E. A. Gait. Calcutta, 1913.
• Census of India, 1911, vol. 5, Bengal, Bihar and Orissa and Sikhim, pt. 1, Report, by L. S. S. O’Malley. Calcutta, 1913.
• Census of India, 1911, vol. 15, The United Provinces and Oudh, pt. 1, Report, by E. A. H. Blunt. Allahabad, 1912.

References

1. Fuller, Chris. "An Anthropologist and Historian Ahead of His Time: L. S. S. O'Malley in British India | Bérose". Archived from the original on 2024-02-22. Retrieved 2024-12-11.
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3. Fuller, Chris. "An Anthropologist and Historian Ahead of His Time: L. S. S. O'Malley in British India | Bérose". Archived from the original on 2024-02-22. Retrieved 2024-12-11.

External links

• Works by or about Lewis Sydney Steward O'Malley at the Internet Archive
• Media related to Lewis Sydney Steward O'Malley at Wikimedia Commons

• 1874 births
• 1941 deaths