Ethnographical Notes on Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The publication is intended the Chandraseniya Kayasth Prabhu community only. It does not, therefore, pretend to appeal to a very wide circle, but at the same time, it must be mentioned here that it contains information that rendered some service to Government in the inquiry of the ethnographic survey lately conducted by the Government authorities in this part of the country. Proceedings of the Chandraseniya Kayasth Prabhu gathering held on the 21st of July, 1901, and the important correspondence between the Provincial Superintendent of Census of the Bombay Presidency and the Chandraseniya Kayasth Prabhu Club published in this little book after Appendix No. 6, will give the reader an idea of the occasion of bringing together these notes and the ways in which that work was conducted by the institution with the help of the members of the Prabhu Historical Society, a branch of the Poona Club to which the inquiry was entrusted. The notes were required to be prepared in English chiefly, because they were to be examined, inspected, and recasted by an intelligent European officer of Government. These notes cannot be said to be sufficient for writing the general history of the caste - not even a sketch - but they would give the reader an outline of the system of Government in connection with the ethnographic survey, and the attempts of the Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu Social Club, Poona, of systematically gathering the material from various quarters and embodying the same in the form in which it appears in the pages of this book.<br><br>The portion under the heading Extracts from Bombay Gazetteer and other Publications appended to this book at the end, is an after-thought of the publisher.