HODSON, Thomas Callan. Hornsey, Middlesex 12.12.1871 — Tisbury, Wiltshire 25.1.1953. British Anthropologist. Professor in Cambridge. Son of Arthur H., of Royal Navy, and Mary Catherine Callan, educated at Christ’s Hospital. From 1890 studies at Oxford (Queen’s College), no degree. In 1894 joined I.C.S., served in Bengal, Assam and Manipur, retired in 1901 because of health problems. In 1903-14 Registrar of East London College (University of London). In 1914-20 served in British Forces in France, finally as Colonel. In 1921-23 Principal of Thornsey Training College. In 1926-32 Reader of Ethnography at Cambridge and 1932-37 William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology there. Wasted much of his energy to racial theories. Married 1903 Kathleen Elfrida Manby, two sons and two daughters.
Publications: Thado Grammar. 6+104 p. Shillong 1905.
– The Meitheis. 17+227 p. L. 1908; The Nāga Tribes of Manipur. 13+212 p. L. 1911.
– “Mortuary ritual and eschatological beliefs among the Hill tribes of Assam”, Archiv f. Rel.wiss. 12, 1909, 447-459.
– Primitive Culture of India. 133 p. L. 1932; Languages, Customs and Religions of India. 19??; India: Census Ethnography, 1901-1931. 5+118 p. Delhi 1937.
– Articles in E.R.E., JRAnthrInst, Folk-Lore, etc.
Sources: *J. Hutton, Nature 171, 1953, 328f.; Who Was Who 1951–1960; Wikipedia (concentrates on his racial ideas, no details on life); stray notes in Internet.
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