2. _Persian._--Amongst the Parsees and Saint Thomas Christians (?); and, far more unequivocally, and in greater proportions, amongst the _Moghul_ families--these being always more or less Persian; but Persian with such heterogeneous intermixtures of Turk and Mongol blood besides as to make analysis almost impossible. 3. _Afghan._--The Rohillas of Rohilcund are Afghan in origin; so are the Patani--indeed, the term _Patan_ means an Afghan of Hindostan wherever he may be. 4. _Jewish._ 5, 6, 7.--_Chinese_, _Malay_, _Burmese_, &c. 8. _European._ Of the _Indians out of India_, by far the most are-- 1. The _Gipsies_. 2. The _Banians_, who are the Hindú traders of Arabia, Persia, Cashmir, and other parts of the East. 3. The _Hill Coolies_, individuals of the Khond and Kúli class, upon whom England is trying the experiment of what may end in a revival of the old crimping system, as a substitute for slave-labour in our intertropical colonies. * * * * * Such is a sketch of the ethnology of India; pre-eminently complex, but not pre-eminently mysterious; its chief problems being-- 1. The general ethnological relations of the Tamulian stock. 2. Those of the intrusive Brahminical Hindús. 3. The relation of the intrusive population to the aboriginal.[62] FOOTNOTES: [41] "Transactions of Philological Society," No. 94. [42] Latin _nurus_, from _snurus_. [43] Latin _socer_, Greek ἕκυρος. [44] Latin _socrus_, Greek ἕκυρα. [45] Latin _levir_ (_devir_), Greek δαηρ. [46] Or _that_, _this_. [47] The full exposition of this doctrine is in the present writer's ethnological edition of the "Germania" of Tacitus; v. _Æstyi_. [48] Taken from the Appendix to Captain Cunningham's "History of the Sikhs." [49] Captain Postans, in "Transactions of Ethnological Society," who, along with Sir H. Pottinger, is my chief authority. [50] For a description of these parts see Major Edwardes' "Year on the Punjâb Frontier." [51] The best account of the Brahúi is to be found in Sir H. Pottinger's Travels. [52] In the sixth century, B.C. according to the Buddhist chronology. [53] Such, at least, is the opinion of the author of "Christianity in Ceylon," Sir E. Tennent. [54] Names explained in Chapter iii. [55] From Callaway's "Translation of the _Kolán Nattannawa_." [56] Book iii. §. 99. [57] The same, probably, is the case with the BIDI of Java. [58] From this language, I imagine that the three following words have come into the English--two of them being slang and one a sporting term--_rum_, _cove_, _jockey_. [59] "Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal," No. 145. [60] These names introduce a difficulty: They are _Rajpút_ as well. [61] All of which may be found in the paper already quoted; and all of which contain numerous Tamul roots.