- Abor race, 44
- Accent in Indian languages, 74
- ?di Br?hmo Sam?j, 96
- Alphabets of India, 70
- Animism among Muhammadans, 99
- Animistic religions of India, 81
- Animists as potential Hindus, 83
- Anu-loma castes, 38
- Apabhramsa or "decayed" languages, 75
- Arjuna, supposed ancestor of Manipur dynasty, 42
- Aryan settlement in Gangetic do-?b, 27
- Aryan settlement in the Panj?b, 26
- Aryo-Dravidian type of race, 22
- Assam, History of, by E. A. Gait, 45
- Assamese language, 76
- Bannerjee, Rev. K. M., 95
- Bengali language, 76
- Bengali race, origins of, 28
- Bih?r? language, 76
- Bohra Muhammadans, 101
- Brachycephalous races, 17
- Brahma, one of the Hindu Trinity, 91
- Br?hmanas, sacred books, 88
- Br?hmans of Bengal, 17
- Br?hmo Sam?j in Bengal, 94
- Br?hui language, 62, 66
- Buddha (Gautama) and Buddhism, 89
- Caste, definition of, 35;
- functional type of, 45;
- as divided in gotras, 41;
- as a result of migration, 49;
- as resulting from change of custom, 50;
- as formed by mixture of blood, 47;
- of the national type, 48;
- sectarian type, 46;
- tribal castes, 40, 43;
- as including Koches and other indigenous tribes, 109
- Chaitanya, Hindu reformer, 92
- Chand?ls, 38
- Chitrangad?, supposed ancestress of Manipur dynasty, 42
- Clans, exogamous, 35
- Crooke, Mr W., on "R?jputs and Mar?thas", 52
- Dafla race, 44
- Dolicocephalous races, 17
- Doms in Assam, 44
- Dravidian languages, 61, 62
- Dravidian type of race, 24
- Dravidians as probable autochthones, 25
- Dubois, AbbÉ, 106
- Fiction as an origin of caste, 33
- Functional type of castes, 45
- Gait, E. A., History of Assam, 45
- Gandhara, kingdom of, 31
- G?rpag?ri (hail averters) as functional caste, 45
- Gond language, 62, 65
- Gotras, as branch of caste, 41
- Gujar?ti language, 56
- Vardham?na, the founder of Jainism, 89
- Vedas, the four sacred books, 86
- Vedic deities, 87
- Vishnu as one of the Hindu Trinity, 91
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