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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