he Christians of St. Thomas that are of much
ethnological importance.

2. Judaism on the coast of Malabar; or the Judaism of the so-called
_Black Jews_.

3. Parseeism in Gujerat; of Persian origin, and, probably, nearly
confined to individuals of Persian blood.

4. Mahometanism.

* * * * *

Of foreign blood there are numerous infusions.

1. _Arab._--On the western coast, more especially amongst the Moplahs of
the neighbourhood of Goa; where the stock seems to be Arabian on the
father's, and Indian on the mother's side.

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 Hindu traders of Arabia, Persia, Cashmir,
and other parts of the East.

3. The _Hill Coolies_, individuals of the Khond and Kuli 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 Hindus.

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 {hekyros}.

[44] Latin _socrus_, Greek {hekyra}.

[45] Latin _levir_ (_devir_), Greek {daer}.

[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. _AEstyi_.

[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,