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 . nt 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. Th
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 . nt 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. The?enl *^^ ascendency of Great Britain1871-72. in the East sviggested, 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. THIRD CASTE lYPE—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 morethan ten thousand miles into the East,had lifted up over one of the vastest and
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