William Alexander Fraser (1859-1933) was a Canadian writer.

Fraser was born at River John in Pictou County, Nova Scotia of Scots parents. William moved to the United States to study. Until the age of 14, he studied in New York City and Boston. Then he returned to Canada, where he began to live with his uncle in Elgin County in Southwestern Ontario. In Canada, Fraser became an engineer and was involved in developing the first oil wells in

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Un monde régi par des Castes, où les Seigneurs dominent et où les Intouchables sont la Caste la plus basse...

Sur une Terre futuriste dominée par un système de Castes, Celdric, un humain pure souche, fait partie de la Caste plus haute, celle des Seigneurs. Falko, dont l'héritage génétique comporte une grande partie de gènes extra-terrestres, est un membre de la plus méprisée, celle des Intouchables. Tout les oppose,

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Excerpt: "'In 1894, equipped with a set of anthropometric instruments obtained on loan from the Asiatic Society of Bengal, I commenced an investigation of the tribes of the Nīlgiri hills, the Todas, Kotas, and Badagas, bringing down on myself the unofficial criticism that "anthropological research at high altitudes is eminently indicated when the thermometer registers 100° in Madras." From this modest beginning have resulted:-(1) investigation of...

Excerpt: "...."We embarked," he writes, "in a boat (at Hampi on the Tungabhadra) which exactly corresponds to my idea of the coracle of the ancient Britons. It consists of a very large, round wicker basket, about eight or nine feet in diameter, covered over with leather, and propelled by paddles. As a rule, it spins round and round, but the boatmen can keep it fairly straight, when exhorted to do so, as they were on this occasion. Some straw had been...

Excerpt: "The Marakkāyars are described, in the Madras Census Report, 1901, as "a Tamil-speaking Musalman tribe of mixed Hindu and Musalman origin, the people of which are usually traders. They seem to be distinct from the Labbais (q.v.) in several respects, but the statistics of the two have apparently been confused, as the numbers of the Marakkāyars are smaller than they should be." Concerning the Marakkāyars of the South Arcot district, Mr....

Castes and Tribes of Southern India is a seven-volume encyclopedia of social groups of Madras Presidency and the princely states of Travancore, Mysore, Coorg and Pudukkottai published by British museologist Edgar Thurston and K. Rangachari in 1909. The seven-volume work was one of several such publications resulting from the Ethnographic Survey of India project which was formally instituted by the Government of British India in 1901. The Survey was...

"Have you ever had a cast? She has!"--Provided by publisher.