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 .. . built inBard wan, but these are devoted only tothe manufacture of drainage pipes andthe coarser form of stoneware. In all the vast upland region betweenthe two principal rivers of India, build-ing stone is abundant. In Rajputanathat pink marble out of which the oldtemple and palace of Agra were rearedis found. In Godavery ^ Quarries of mar- and Narbada sandstone bie, slate, andabounds, and Southern In-dia is rich
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 .. . built inBard wan, but these are devoted only tothe manufacture of drainage pipes andthe coarser form of stoneware. In all the vast upland region betweenthe two principal rivers of India, build-ing stone is abundant. In Rajputanathat pink marble out of which the oldtemple and palace of Agra were rearedis found. In Godavery ^ Quarries of mar- and Narbada sandstone bie, slate, andabounds, and Southern In-dia is rich in granite. Since the incomingof European capital the slate quarrieshave been opened, also mines of micaand talc. Finally, the hills of Orissaand Chuta-Nagpur abound in a varietyof indurated potstone, out of whichvessels of utility and others of ornamentare manufactured with that skill forwhich the art of India is famous. Chapter characteristics. iHEN a race of menhas long occupied aland so varied in itsresources and physicalcharacter as India, itis natural, inevitable,that there shall be adiverse ethnic development. The peo-ple of one part of the country will be. formed upon conditions different fromthose in another. In the Diverse develop. ment follows case of a stock so conserva- long occupancy , 1-1 i i in wide coun- tive as that which peopled , the diversity of social forms andof ethnic character would be strongly-marked. After the settled estate hadonce prevailed among the tribes, eachwould develop on its own lines and reach THE INDICANS.—ETHNIC CHARACTERISTICS. 717 a different result. The absorption ofthe aboriginal population would greatlycontribute also to the divergent tend- flTCiti %*ft SPZ&S. 2jfs tfWa C^\ jfoffR^, CI ^ll^iT ££v»J* SR PMU> ?Tl S^TTt. ^Ci ^fa»l sfllJ ISPECIMEN OF SANSKRIT. ency. In a preliterary age dialectictendencies would shoot out over the sur-face like growing vines, and in course oftime the inhabitants of one dis
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