Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . ween the two countries ^nd in geography or ethnic develop-ment. Mohammedanism, however, hasnot gained the ascendency in the one coun-try as it has in the other, and the dialec-tical difference between the language ofthe Punjab and that of the Cashmeriansis sufficient to classify the peoples as dis-tinct. The population numbers nearlytwenty million. The country is suffi- THE INDICANS.—ETHNIC CHARACTERISTICS. 719
Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . ween the two countries ^nd in geography or ethnic develop-ment. Mohammedanism, however, hasnot gained the ascendency in the one coun-try as it has in the other, and the dialec-tical difference between the language ofthe Punjab and that of the Cashmeriansis sufficient to classify the peoples as dis-tinct. The population numbers nearlytwenty million. The country is suffi- THE INDICANS.—ETHNIC CHARACTERISTICS. 719 ciently irregular in outline to have pre-served, as in Cashmere, many of theoriginal features of the Aryan race. Inboth language and religion they lienearer to the primitive type than do theCashmerians. Not only have they re-sisted the propagandism of Islara, butthey have a strong antipathy for the fol- Next in order of the Indian popula-tions may be mentioned the great raceof the Mahrattas. They are so calledfrom the Sanskrit nameMaharashtra, the ancient ^^:t^Z^,designation for the GreatKingdom, or region. The country in-habited by them extends from the Ara-. \\\\\ W CASHMERE lowers of the Prophet, whom they despiseas aliens in faith and nationality. As theoriginal seat of the earliest Aryan in-stitutions, the Punjab will ever remaina field of interest for the ethnologist andhistorian. It is, geographically speak-ing, to the Aryan nations what Italy isto Southern Europe—the ancient seatwhence conquest spread and institution-al forms were exported to foreign parts. b> G. ^ uilhcr, from a photograph b\ bian sea on the west to the Satpura moun-tains in the north. It includes thelarger part of Western and CentralIndia. By this designation are coveredthe provinces of Comean, Kandashesh,Berar, the British Deccan, half of theNizams Deccan, and a part of the limits here defined, theMahratta population numbers abouttwelve million. Considered as an eth- ^^^^mw^!k^x%
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