Hand print from India. Sir William James ?
Hand print from India. Sir William James Herschel (1933-1918), an English colonial official, initiated fingerprinting in India in the 1850s for use on contracts and deeds to prevent fraud. Later this expanded its use for criminal identification
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10658929
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45206925
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Mary Evans / Everett Collection
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Contracts Criminology Dactyloscopy Deeds Expanded Filing Fingerprinting Fingerprints Forensics Fraud Herschel Identification Initiated Prevent Ridge
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