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in many other countries, the weakest 

 everywhere giving way to the more 

 civilised and powerful ; and the case is 

 only so far exceptional that the steps of 

 the process are still so plainly discern- 

 ible, and that the different races, though 

 in juxta-position, have not amalgamated 

 as in European countries. Teloogoo 

 and Ooriyah, Khohd, Sourah and Gond, 

 remain as distinct from each other as 

 at the first; and the same separation 

 obtains throughout Central India in the 

 case of the Gronds of the Nerbudda 

 valley, the Bheels and other aboriginal 

 tribes. 



I took charge of the district of Gran- 

 jam in 1858, and a year or two later the 

 special agency for the suppression of 

 human sacrifices and infanticide among 



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