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1923.] An Essay on the History of Newar Culture. 477 
In the case of Hinduism the success of the Vaisnava 
Gosadins in Assam has been admittedly due to their liberal 
views and very gradual tightening of the restrictions in the 
matter of food, drink and other items of everyday life.! 
$5. The differentiation between the newcomers and the 
older people depends on another factor to alarge extent; it is the 
relative proportion of the sexes among the immigrants. In the 
case of a hostile immigration, it is evident, that although the 
immigrants might hold an immense superiority in weapons 
of offence and defence, some compromise will necessarily result, 
if they are compelled to take women of the country as wives on 
account of a shortage of them in their own party. The compa- 
ratively smaller number of women in any immigration over a 
fairly large distance, is bound to be diminished still more in 
the case of a hostile reception. In such a case, however, it 
should be remembered that once the need of taking wives from 
outside had been fulfilled, the superior immigrant people will 
tend to exist as a separate and hostile group. 
In the case under consideration however, there are neither 
any such mutually hostile divisions, nor any traditional indica- 
tions of it in that group of Newars to whom the culture is 
confined. This fits in with the peaceful reception already 
Suggested from other considerations. It should however be 
borne in mind that the immigrants and their - descendants 
unless some special institution like polyandry was set up, 
intermixture witb aborigines will largely occur and the tendency 
will be to have a more or less pure aboriginal group, with a 
Superior class, of mixed origin, above it. There may in addi- 
tion be a small class of the highest grade, the descendants of the 
immigrants who could afford to have wives of their own race. 
his class would be greater in number, the less difficult was the 
access to the country; for, a larger number of women could in 
that case be taken to the new country. : 
In Nepal, the group under discussion, the Bauddhamargis 
have three such divisions, ranging above one another, the low- 

1 Census of Assam: Report 1891, p. 216-7 gives a good account of 
_ the process of Hinduisation. 
