The Peoples of India

J. D. Anderson

PREFACE

CHAPTER I RACE AND CASTE

CHAPTER II THE LANGUAGES OF INDIA

CHAPTER III THE RELIGIONS OF INDIA

BIBLIOGRAPHY CHAPTER I

INDEX

Transcriber's Note

Apparent typographical errors have been corrected, and the use of hyphens has been normalized. Text in black-letter font has been bolded.

The author does not identify the transliteration scheme(s) used for Indian words in the text. Macrons (as in "ā") are used extensively and there is some use of the "diacritic dot" (as in "ṇ").

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THE PEOPLES OF INDIA

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THE PEOPLES OF INDIA
BY
J. D. ANDERSON, M.A.

Teacher of Bengali in the
University of Cambridge, formerly
of the Indian Civil Service

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at the University Press

1913

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