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professional classes, seem to have come from the 

 N.W., by way of Kabul and Candahar, down the 

 valleys of the Indus, of the Ganges and Braham- 

 aputra, and to have streamed through the gaps in 

 the Himalayas, and from the practice rigidly 

 followed of living apart in castes, who neither eat 

 together nor intermarry, each of the immigrant 

 Hindu tribes and races are now as distinctly 

 marked in their isolation, as on the day of their 

 first appearance. Even the Mahommedans, who 

 have less of such strict caste habits, although 

 they also to a considerable extent follow the 

 ancient custom of marrying only amongst their 

 own people, are still readily distinguished ; tall, 

 powerful, fair men of the Afghans ; fair robust 

 Moghuls from Tartary ; fair slender nowaits from 

 Southern Persia ; the darker men of Arab origin ; 

 and the powerful, large-framed traders, known in 

 the south as Labbe. All these, amongst the 

 Hindus, Brahmans, Chetris, Vesyas and Sudras ; 

 and amongst the Mahommedans, Syeds, Shaikhs, 

 Moghuls, and Pathans, are in great nations. But, 

 throughout all India, in hamlets, in forests and 

 the plains, in towns, in mountain valleys, and on 

 the mountains, are innumerable smaller bodies or 

 tribes, with forms and habits, and following pur- 

 suits, quite distinct from each other. There is 

 no doubt, however, that the languages show two 



