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he Christians of St. Thomas that are of much ethnological importance. 2. Judaism on the coast of Malabar; or the Judaism of the so-called _Black Jews_. 3. Parseeism in Gujerat; of Persian origin, and, probably, nearly confined to individuals of Persian blood. 4. Mahometanism. * * * * * Of foreign blood there are numerous infusions. 1. _Arab._--On the western coast, more especially amongst the Moplahs of the neighbourhood of Goa; where the stock seems to be Arabian on the father's, and Indian on the mother's side. 2. _Persian._--Amongst the Parsees and Saint Thomas Christians (?); and, far more unequivocally, and in greater proportions, amongst the _Moghul_ families--these being always more or less Persian; but Persian with such heterogeneous intermixtures of Turk and Mongol blood besides as to make analysis almost impossible. 3. _Afghan._--The Rohillas of Rohilcund are Afghan in origin; so are the Patani--indeed, the term _Patan_ means an Afghan of Hindostan wherever he may be. 4. _Jewish._ 5, 6, 7.--_Chinese_, _Malay_, _Burmese_, &c. 8. _European._ Of the _Indians out of India_, by far the most are-- 1. The _Gipsies_. 2. The _Banians_, who are the Hindu traders of Arabia, Persia, Cashmir, and other parts of the East. 3. The _Hill Coolies_, individuals of the Khond and Kuli class, upon whom England is trying the experiment of what may end in a revival of the old crimping system, as a substitute for slave-labour in our intertropical colonies. * * * * * Such is a sketch of the ethnology of India; pre-eminently complex, but not pre-eminently mysterious; its chief problems being-- 1. The general ethnological relations of the Tamulian stock. 2. Those of the intrusive Brahminical Hindus. 3. The relation of the intrusive population to the aboriginal.[62] FOOTNOTES: [41] "Transactions of Philological Society," No. 94. [42] Latin _nurus_, from _snurus_. [43] Latin _socer_, Greek {hekyros}. [44] Latin _socrus_, Greek {hekyra}. [45] Latin _levir_ (_devir_), Greek {daer}. [46] Or _that_, _this_. [47] The full exposition of this doctrine is in the present writer's ethnological edition of the "Germania" of Tacitus; v. _AEstyi_. [48] Taken from the Appendix to Captain Cunningham's "History of the Sikhs." [49] Captain Postans, in "Transactions of Ethnological Society," who, along with Sir H. Pottinger,
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