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matta ; the last from the Telugi, gadda. This 

 intermixture, which is of ordinary occurrence in 

 all cognate tongues, is here promoted specially by 

 extensive colonization of different races, as of the 

 Telugus into Southern India under the Bijanagar 

 dynasty, where they still exist as distinct com- 

 munities and of the followers of Raman uja 

 Achary into Mysore, where they are still to be 

 seen as a separate class, speaking Tamil in their 

 families, and Carnataca in public. The Reddis 

 also, an enterprising race of agriculturists, have 

 migrated from their original seats near Rajah- 

 mundry, over the whole of Southern India and 

 even into the Maharashtra country, where they 

 are considered the most thriving ryots, and are 

 met with as far north as Poona." 



The pagan population of India is divided into 

 two great classes, viz : the Arian, or immigrant, 

 and the Tamulian, or aboriginal. The Tamulian 

 race, confined to India, and never distinguished 

 by mental culture, offers a humbler subject for 

 study than the Arian. But as the moral and 

 physical condition of many of the scattered mem- 

 bers of the Tamulian body is still nearly as little 

 known as is the (assumed) primitive entirety of 

 that body, this subject has two parts, each of 

 which is of interest to the philosopher and the 

 statesman. The Tamulians are now, for the most 



