The people of India : a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan . ms one of then* chief articles of diet. In otherrespects they live as Sooimee Mahomedans in general, though they are rough,boorish, and extremely ignorant. They are said to be descended from men whoimmigrated into the Punjab about three and a half centmies ago; but then- origm,or period of conversion to ]\Ialiomedanism, is not discoverable. Comparativelyfew of them cultivate land, the majority—and they are comparatively small innumber—prefer hvmg in the jungles of
The people of India : a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan . ms one of then* chief articles of diet. In otherrespects they live as Sooimee Mahomedans in general, though they are rough,boorish, and extremely ignorant. They are said to be descended from men whoimmigrated into the Punjab about three and a half centmies ago; but then- origm,or period of conversion to ]\Ialiomedanism, is not discoverable. Comparativelyfew of them cultivate land, the majority—and they are comparatively small innumber—prefer hvmg in the jungles of Googaua with their herds of camels, ofwhich a proportion fit for work find a ready sale at Lahore, Mooltan, and thenorth-west provinces. Some of the clan are comparatively wealthy, and weargood clothing; others are very rougiily and scantily attired. The man in thePhotograph Avears a turban of red silk; a scarf of silk, checked red, blue, andwhite; and trousers of checked red and white cotton. The Beloch, in general,have a rude, forbidding cast of features, to which the subject of the Photograph iscertainly no \
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Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1860, booksubjectethnolo, bookyear1868
