The Ethnology of the British Colonies and DependenciesLatham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
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The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies
Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
Ethnology
There are four races and four creeds in the world among Hindoos and
Mahometans;
Selfishness, jealousy, and pride drew all of them strongly;
The Hindoos dwelt on Benares and the Ganges, the Mahometans on the
Kaaba;
The Mahometans held by circumcision, the Hindoos by strings and
frontal marks.
They each called on Ram and Ruheem, one name, and yet both forgot
the road.
Forgetting the Veds and the Koran, they were inveigled in the snares
of the world.
Truth remained on one side, while Moollas and Brahmins disputed,
And salvation was not attained.
X.
God heard the complaint (of virtue or truth), and Nânuk was sent
into the world.
He established the custom that the disciple should wash the feet of
his Gooroo, and drink the water;
Pâr Bruhm and Poorun Bruhm, in his Kulyoog, he showed were one.
The four feet (of the animal sustaining the world) were made of
faith; the four castes were made one;
The high and the low became equal: the salutation of the feet (among
disciples) he established in the world;
Contrary to the nature of man, the feet were exalted above the head.
In the Kulyoog he gave salvation; using the only true name, he
taught men to worship the Lord.
To give salvation in the Kulyoog, Gooroo Nânuk came.
PARTS BEYOND THE INDUS.
The Punjâb is the most western locality of the Indian stock, whether we
call the members of it Hindú or Tamulian. On crossing the Indus we reach
a new ethnological area, only partially, and only recently British;
_viz._, the country of the Bilúch, and the country of the Afghans. And
here we must prepare for new terms; for hearing of _tribes_ rather than
_castes_; and for finding a polity more like that of the Jews and Arabs
than the institutions of the Brahmins.
_The Bilúch._--_Biluchi-stan_ means the country of the _Bilúch_, just as
_Hindo-stan_ and _Afghani-stan_ mean that of the Hindús and Afghans. It
is the south-western quarter of Persia, that is the chief area of the
tribes in question. Hence, however, they extend into Kutch Gundava,
Scinde, and Múltan, and the northern parts of Gujerat. Between Kelat,
the Indus, and the sea, they are mixed with Brahúi.
The Biluchi is a dialect of the Persian--sufficiently close to be
understood by a Persian proper.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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