The British administrators, missionaries, travellers and other anthropologically oriented individuals collected data on tribal and rural groups and wrote about their life and culture in the journal of Asiatic society of Bengal (1784) and later in the journal of Bihar and Orissa research society (1915) and Man in India (1921) along with other historical, geographical information. They also collected ethnographic data and published a series of district gazetteers, handbooks on tribes and castes. In 1931 and 1941, some British and Indian anthropologists were associated with collecting anthropological data on the tribes and castes of the different parts of India. Some books on the tribes and castes of different regions, books on Indian ethnology were published by administrators like Campbell (1856) Latham (1859) and Risley (1891).