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 .. . AryanLinguistic affin- stock. Their languagesfeatures^the are classical, and, strangeBritish rule. to say, are more nearly inanalogy with the current English tonguethan are the Highland dialects of Scot-land or the broken speech of Wales!Of the sixty-six million of Bengalese,forty-two and a half million are classi- fied as Hindus; and of the remainder,about twenty and a half million The British li
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 .. . AryanLinguistic affin- stock. Their languagesfeatures^the are classical, and, strangeBritish rule. to say, are more nearly inanalogy with the current English tonguethan are the Highland dialects of Scot-land or the broken speech of Wales!Of the sixty-six million of Bengalese,forty-two and a half million are classi- fied as Hindus; and of the remainder,about twenty and a half million The British lieuten-ant governor has thus under his swayin the single province of Bengal a largerMohammedan population than that ruledby the Sultan of Turkey! Besides thetwo great peoples, the Hindus and theIslamites, a small percentage of otherIndian races is diffused throughout thecountry, and to this must be added theEuropeans, notably the English, whohave sat down at Calcutta under a Mayand June temperature of one hundredand ten degrees F. to control anddirect a mass of nations numerically inexcess of all the other .subjects of thequeen. Chapter racks—General T remains to noticebriefly one or two addi-tional Indian familiesless widely known thanthe great races alreadydescribed. In the west-ern part of the country,on the slopes of the Hindu-Kush, arethe Daradas, or Dards, and further tothe west another people called the Sijah-Posh. The latter word signifies blackcoats, because the men are mostly clad,as to their outer garments, in blackhides. To these people the Moham-medans give the name of Kaffirs, or In-fidels. It is believed that they migratedinto India from Kandahar in Afghan-istan. We have among these extreme racesthe same dialectical differences, the samepeculiarities, which belong to the otherbranches of the Indie familv. These mountaineers are larger in person andof finer build than are the people ofthe Punjab, or even their _ ,_ . J Distribution and o
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