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 . ?n. THE INDICANS.—ISOLATED RACES. 743 arly as they, while at the same timebarbarous chieftains of their own race,in their own country, were sacrificingidiots and paupers on hilltops in orderto make sure of the political advantageswhich the ? noblemen had gone to Lon-don to plead for! So great is the diversityof development among the Hindus. These people, viewed as a whole, aremost largely descended from the AryanLmguistic affin-
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 . ?n. THE INDICANS.—ISOLATED RACES. 743 arly as they, while at the same timebarbarous chieftains of their own race,in their own country, were sacrificingidiots and paupers on hilltops in orderto make sure of the political advantageswhich the ? noblemen had gone to Lon-don to plead for! So great is the diversityof development among the Hindus. These people, viewed as a whole, aremost largely descended from the AryanLmguistic affin- stock. Their languagesities; striking classical, and, strange features of the o British rule. to Say, are more nearly inanalogy with the current English tonguethan are the Highland dialects of Scot-land or the broken speech of Wales!Of the sixty-six million of Bengalese,forty-two and a half million are classi- fied as Hindus; and of the remainder,about twenty and a half million areMohammedans. The British lieuten-ant governor has thus under his swayin the single province of Bengal a largerMohammedan population than that ruledby the Sultan of Turkey! Besides th
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