AUTHORITIES.--The Indian section of the Victoria and Albert Museum (London) includes an exhibition of oriental dress; and the library of the India Office many prints and photographs. The following books may be consulted: _Coloured Drawings illustrating the Manners and Customs of Natives of India_ (originally prepared by order of the marquess Wellesley, Governor-General; _vide_ Council minute dated 16th August, 1866) (1 vol.); J. Forbes Watson and J. W. Kaye, _The People of India_; F. Baltazar Solvyns, _Les Hindous_ (4 vols. illustrated, Paris, 1808); India Office Library, 3 small portfolios of pictures of Katch and Bombay men and women; _Costume of Bala Ghat_ (Carnatic), S.E. India (large water-colours, India Office Library); Illustrations of various trades in Kashmir, by Indian artists (India Office Library); R. H. Thalbhoy, _Portrait Gallery of Western India_ (1886) (chiefly portraits of Parsi notables); Edward Tuite Dalton, C.S.I., _Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal_ (1 vol., 1872); Talboys Wheeler, _History of the Imperial Assembly at Delhi, 1st January 1877_; _Queen Victoria's Jubilee, 6th February 1887_ (in Urdu, illustrated); T. H. Hendley, C.I.E., V.D., _Rulers of India and Chiefs of Rajputana_ (London, 1897)--the last three are useful for the study of ceremonial dress; G. A. Grierson, _Bihar Peasant Life_ (Calcutta, 1885; this is a most valuable work of learning and research; in division 2, subdivision 3, chapter 1, on clothes, will be found names and descriptions of every article of clothing used in south, central and eastern India); H. B. Baden-Powell, _Handbook of Manufactures and Arts of the Punjab_ (Lahore, 1872); W. W. Hunter, _Statistical Account of Bengal_ (1875); Hughes' _Dictionary of Islam_ (London, 1895); Sir Denzil Ibbetson, _Outlines of Punjab Ethnography_; E. Thurston, _Castes and Tribes of Southern India_. It is to be hoped that steps will shortly be taken to arrange articles of costume now displayed at the Indian Section, Victoria and Albert Museum, in some systematic order so as to assist students in arriving at a scientific knowledge of the subject. (C. G.) FOOTNOTES: [1] The spelling throughout all the articles dealing with India is that adopted by the government of India, modified in special instances with deference to long-established usage. [2] The historicity of this convention, not now usually admitted by scholars, is maintained by Bishop Copleston of Calcutta in his _Buddhism, Primitive and Present_ (1908). [3] In 1909 the excavation of a ruined stupa near Peshawar disclosed a casket, with an inscription of Kanishka, and containing fragments of bones believed to be those of Buddha himself.