Identifier: americanaunivers08newy (find matches)
Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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race were the Hindus, who.however, were not the aboriginal inhabitants noreven the first invaders. From the northwest ofIndia, through Kashmir and dow-n the valley ofthe Indus, and from Tibet through the passes ofthe Himalayas, the inhabitants of Northern Asiafrom a verj early period migrated southwardto the milder and more fertile plains of India.Two great successions of these invasions arerecognized as having taken place before theperiod of authentic history. The first immi-grants, of dubious ethnological connections, butcommonly known as the Tamil races, appear tohave overspread the entire peninsula. Followingthem the San.skrit-speaking peoples, called theHindus, of .\ryan speech, dispossessed the Tamilrace;, and superseded their language in the wholeof India north of the Nerbudda. Tlic Hindussubsequently descended into the peninsula andpenetrated as far as Cape Comorin: but thoughtheir influence on the languages of Southern In-dia was considerable in the way of introducing INDIA.
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VOUXG BRAHMIX AXD WIFE. INDIA new terms, the grammar and construction of theTamil languages niaiutained their place in thedistricts souiii of the Nerbudda. The nativetribes were not exterminated by these invasions,but are still to be found under various names,as Bhils, Catties, Coolies, Gonds, etc., inhabitingthe fastnesses of the mountain-ranges in Bengal,the Vindhya and Satpura Mountains, theGhats, etc. The hill tribes and other aboriginesin all India are estimated at 70,000,000. PopulalioH.— The first census of all Indiawas taken in 1S71-2, but it was not till that of1891 was taken that a really reliable and compre-hensive statistical account of the p^ople of Indiawas available. In 1871-2 the total population ofIndia was returned at 240,931,521, in 1881 at2S3.r93.54, in i8gi at 287,223,431, in igoi at294,266,701, of which, as shown under PoliticalDivisions, 231,085,132 were under immediateBritish authority. The total number of Euro-peans was only 168,000. France still possesses i

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