Che Aborigines or India Race 



THERE are large nations, and innumerable 

 smaller nations scattered all over India, 

 whose origin, and date of arrival in the country 

 is wholly unknown. It may be pretty safely 

 assumed, however, that the bulk of these immi- 

 grants came from regions beyond the Himalayas 

 on the north, at various times, ranging between 

 three thousand and one thousand years before the 

 Christian era. The small bodies in the N.W. 

 corner of the Peninsula appear to be of Western 

 origin, coming in all probability from ancient 

 Babylonia. There are people in the southern 

 parts of the peninsula of India and Malacca, with 

 marked negro features. These may also be found 

 in the Archipelago Islands ; there are traces of 

 them also in the valleys of Northern India. This 

 suggests the idea that there had once been a 

 great negro wave setting to the east. The great 

 bulk of the settlers in India labourers, farmers, 

 foresters, shepherds, milkmen, artificers, and 



