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THE LIVING RACES OF MANKIND 



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[Colombo. 



DEVIL-DANCERS, CEYLON. 



Llopa, etc. (of Bhutan), f (?); Miri, etc., ^ (?); Kachari, |; Singpo and Kuki, (?); 

 Mikir, 3^; Khasi (of the Khasia Hills), -fa (?); Naga, about . 



V. SUNDRIES (making a total of only about 2,000,000). Shan, Malay, Negrito (Andaman 

 Islands), Indo-Arab, "Moormen" (Arab), Baluchi, Afghan (Afridi, Waziri, Yusafzai, etc.), 

 Swati, etc., Persian, Parsi, Eurasian (half-caste), and European, about-536,000 persons. 



As already stated, the last census, of 1891, gave the total population as over 287,000,000. 



Speaking of the Dravidiaus and Hindus, Mr. Keane says: "All have long beeu fused 

 together in one common ethnical, social, and religious system, while still separated one from 

 another mainly by their different languages, all derived in Europe from the common Latin 

 stock, in India either from a common Sanskrit or from a common but now extinct Dravidian 

 mother- tongue." It is hardly necessary after this to point out that India presents a great 

 diversity of tribes and races. Some are in a high state of culture; others can only be spoken 

 of as savages. The great bulk of the population can be traced to two main sources the 

 Aryan Hindus, chiefly in the northern plains, and the Dravidians in the Deccan. 



Thrust back by the Aryans from the plains that once were theirs, the aborigines lie 

 hidden in the recesses of the mountains, like the fossilised remains found by geologists in 

 mountain caves only these "specimens" are not dry bones, but actual living people. Thus 

 India is a great museum of races, in which we can study man in various stages of culture, 

 some very low, and in fact interesting survivals from prehistoric times, others more advanced 

 in the scale of civilisation. 



All are fond of music and dancing. Sometimes they form a ring by joining hands, and 

 advance in step towards the centre, and again retire, while circling round and round. When 



