. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. Ganges, to the much less attractive and valuable lands ofRajputana; and even here the Mahrattas gained predominance overthem in the last century. Since the decline of the Mahratta power, theRajputs have emerged into comj)arative brilliancy; and in a feudalRajputana at any rate constitute a powerful feudal aristocracy, aristocracy,as also in the North-eastPunjab. In the Ganges
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. Ganges, to the much less attractive and valuable lands ofRajputana; and even here the Mahrattas gained predominance overthem in the last century. Since the decline of the Mahratta power, theRajputs have emerged into comj)arative brilliancy; and in a feudalRajputana at any rate constitute a powerful feudal aristocracy, aristocracy,as also in the North-eastPunjab. In the Gangesvalley they still form aconsiderable proportionof the cultivators of thesoil, but are very littledistinguishable physic-ally from the modern Rajput isquite as strict a Hindu,and even more preju-diced, than many Brah-mans ; and many of themtook a violent part inthe rebelhon of the humbler Raj-puts have a fine, digni-fied look, and theirwomen are very hand-some. The Rajput isvery proud of his warlikereputation and of hisnoble ancestry. Eachclan marries into someother, marriage in thesame clan being regardedas incestuous. There ismuch cehbacy and in-fanticide among a specimen of their. THE THAKORE SAHIB OF MORVI, GUJEPAT (A RAJPUT 298 THE INHABITANTS OF ASIA. subdivisions, we may note, that in Oudh alone, in 1871, there were found439 Rajput clans or divisions of clans, some divisions having only one ortwo living members. Their great desire is to marry their daughters intoa higher clan, and to avoid misalliances. In connnection with the Rajputs, we may here refer to the Aiyanpeople of Cashmere (or Kashmir), which is in many respects mostinteresting, both for its exquisite scenery and for its manufactures andpeople. After having been ruled by a Naga dynasty for a long period,it was annexed to the Mogul empire by Akbar in 1586. Later it was ruled over by Afghan chiefs, and in 1819was taken by Runjeet Singh. When weconquered the Sikhs, we appointed aMa
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