R. E. Enthoven

Reginald Edward Enthoven CIE (1869–1952) served as an administrator in the Indian Civil Service under the British Raj and devoted considerable scholarly energy to documenting the ethnography of western India. The Folklore of Bombay, first published by the Clarendon Press in 1924, catalogues the superstitions, rituals, and oral traditions of the Bombay Presidency — covering the worship of natural objects, tree and snake veneration, spirit possession, the evil eye, omens, and related practices. His earlier work includes the three-volume Tribes and Castes of Bombay.