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ever has been, non-proselytizing. The whole history of India shows that 

 the subject non- Aryan races were trodden down, utilized as helots, and 

 admitted as an inferior caste into the Brahminical system : thus the subject 

 races left their mark on the language of their conquerors ; they lent words, 

 and helped to modify syntax, but they lost their old language and identity, 

 but preserved many of their customs and religious tenets under the veneer 

 of a semi-Hinduism. Many tribes have retained their savage, or less 

 civilized customs, and still lost their language, like the Bhils. Linguisti- 

 cally and ethnologically we have overlooked the vast residuum of non-Aryan 

 races, and introduced little among them except a sale of fire-arms and 

 spirits. It was a surprise that so large a proportion of the population of 

 Lower Bengal were found in the last census to be Muhammadan : but these 

 were non- Aryan immigrants from the eastern borders, who found Muham- 

 madanism more to their mind, when they settled down to agriculture. Max 

 Miiller asserts broadly, that the majority of the speakers of Bengal are 

 non -Aryan by race, and it will be our own fault, if the remainder do not 

 find Christianity their best leader to civilization. 



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The following additions have been made to the Library since the Meet- 

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