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1923.] An Essay on the History of Newar Culture. 481 
they have done, and to raise themselves so high in Newar 
society, apart from the very important objection on the score 
of the great homogeneity existing in manners and customs in 
the different grades, especially the two upper classes, of 
Newar society. As has been pointed out, the influx of a group 
of people with a superior material culture would lead to the 
formation of a class of people superior to the common mass. 
An immigration from the Tibetan side would indeed differ 
from one on the Indian side in the smaller number of women 
accompanying the incomers. Unless however the number of 
women was practically negligible, there would be three classes 
formed in the society evolved out of interaction, although the 
highest grade, the pure descendants of the immigrants, woul 
be very small in numbers. On any hypothesis which regards 
the Bandyas as the descendants of later immigrants. from 
India who brought the religion, the Udas have to be considered 
aS representing the bulk of the descendants of the culture 
bringers from the Tibetan side. Apart from the absence of 
a cultured people is far more resistive against such outside 
influences, 
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has also been the case with the Udas.. But it should be 
Temembered that in the cases quoted where such conversions are 
nown to*have occurred, the people though politically dominant 
were decidedly inferior in material as well as well as mental cul- 
ture. Such cannot be said to have been the case for the hypo- 
thetical descendants of the culture bringers from the Tibetan 
Side. The treatment accorded to Bandyas themselves by later 

' EB. A. Gait: 4 History cf Assam, Caleutta 1906. T. C. Hodson: 
The Meitheis § 4, London, 1908. 
