Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . t Indie Aryans who driftedby migration through the passes of theHindu-Kush in an epoch below themorning twilight of history. Within the limits of India, as definedin a former book, dwell about one sixthof all the inhabitants of the globe. Un-til within the last quarter of a century THE INDICANS.—RACE DIVISIONS. 679 but little was known of the multipliedmillions populating these vast and un-Efforts of Great travers
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . t Indie Aryans who driftedby migration through the passes of theHindu-Kush in an epoch below themorning twilight of history. Within the limits of India, as definedin a former book, dwell about one sixthof all the inhabitants of the globe. Un-til within the last quarter of a century THE INDICANS.—RACE DIVISIONS. 679 but little was known of the multipliedmillions populating these vast and un-Efforts of Great traversed regions. TheceSSo? the ascendency of Great Britain1871-72. jn the East suggested, and the facilities of her government in Indiaencouraged, an effort to make an actualenumeration of the almost limitless na-tions under her sway. Not, however,until 1871-72 was an effort actuallymade. It was attended with unusualsuccess. The whole work was done inits principal parts concurrently in asingle night. The officers of the gov-ernment had arranged that every villageand district in British India should re-turn its own numbers to the registrars,and, with very few exceptions, this was. w<i& THIRD CASTE TYPE—LANDOWNER OF by G. Vuillier, from a photograph. done. The spectacle itself was worthyof commemoration. Out of the Britishislands in the West the strong arm of a Teutonic race had reached back mortthan ten thousand miles into the East,had lifted up over one of the vastest ana
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