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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\\\\\ W CASHMERE lowers of the Prophet, whom they despiseas aliens in faith and nationality. As theoriginal seat of the earliest Aryan in-stitutions, the Punjab will ever remaina field of interest for the ethnologist andhistorian. It is, geographically speak-ing, to the Aryan nations what Italy isto Southern Europe—the ancient seatwhence conquest spread and institution-al forms were exported to foreign parts. b> G. ^ uilhcr, from a photograph b\ bian sea on the west to the Satpura moun-tains in the north. It includes thelarger part of Western and CentralIndia. By this designation are coveredthe provinces of Comean, Kandashesh,Berar, the British Deccan, half of theNizams Deccan, and a part of Nagpur.Within the limits here defined, theMahratta population numbers abouttwelve million. Considered as an eth- ^^^^mw^!k^x% >r^*^i\v;
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ASPECTS OF CASHMERIAN LIFE.—Dancing Giei. of Seeinagur. -Drawn V.v F. THE INDICANS.—ETHNIC CHARACTERISTICS. 721 nic term, Mahratta is not definitive.Neitlier is it the name for a particularExtent of Mah- social caste or a given re-tfont^he^in- ligi^n. It is rather one ofguage. those wide terms which history demands in the definition of arace somewliat composite in ethnic ele-ments, and even diverse in religious andsocial qualities. Still the diversity is notsufficient to warrant a division intoseparate tribes. The common tie whichbinds the several peoples living withinthe regions defined above is language.They speak the Mahratti, one of themost widespread of the modern Indiantongues. In common with the otherIndie languages, it is a dialectical formof Hindi, differing only from Hindu-stani as French differs from Italian.Though the tribes of Mahrattas aresomewhat distinct in the different prov-inces, they are all true Indicans. Wehave Mahratta Brahmans, MahrattaRajputs, and Mahratta

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