Identifier: cyclopediauniver1950ridp (find matches)
Title: Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology World history
Publisher: Boston : Balch Bros.
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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hicallyspeaking, India andHindustan are coex- ^tensive, identical. Rj;In a certain popular tsense Hindus and tIndians are convert- ^ible terms; but if the femeaning of Hindus tbe determined by Wlinguistic evidence, pwe shall find that =not all Indians aie ^Hindus. Hindu ^stani, or Urdu, is a ^dialect of that mediaeval Hindi whichis the term for thsecond origin of allthe Indie languages,as Sanskrit was theoriginal root. Hindiis to Hindustani asthe old Langue dOilis to French. AgainHindustani is onhone of the sevenAryan languagesspoken in NorthernIndia. The othersix are the Punjabi,the Sindhi, the Gu-jarati, the Mahratti,the Bangali, and theOriya. So if we reck-on as Hindus only those whose vernacular is Hindustani, weEthnic and lin- shall find them occupying affiheHTnr^ territory Of about two hun-peoples. (ji-ed and fifty thousand square miles, reaching from the Gandakon the east to the Sutlej on the west, and from the Himalayas to the Vindhyarange. It will already have become clear to
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PEASANTS OF THE DOAB—TYPES,rawn by Emile Bayard, from a photograph. the mind of the reader that generaliza-tions with regard to peo- Difficulty of gen- pies so widely dispersed ^^^^and so differently developed populations,as those of India are wellnigh impossible.Beginning with differences of person 724 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. and running through the whole gamutof human attributes, there is so greatdiversity that only a few general out-lines of the Hindu character can be pre-sented with anything like accuracy. In ■irT ^fn ■%\(t( -^^^ %\x f%^ ^ ^^^ ^TT ^T%n; ^g ^1 ^^rr %r ^t ^^^ ^ ^h.^^-^ Tf f%^ f H^T qT^, ■^■^^ ^ ^ tft %T% ^^ ^^^ Wi^ GS SPECIMEN PAGE OF HINDI BOOK. mere physical characteristics the gener-alization is especially difficult. Personaldescriptions of the Hindus are as old asthe first contact of the Greek race withthat remote region of the world. Theastute observers—such as Nearchus— who followed the army of Alexander, orrather constituted a part of it, in the

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