Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men (1897) (14783732045)

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Title: Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men ..

Year: 1897 (1890s)

Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900

Subjects: World history Ethnology

Publisher: New York, Merrill & Baker

Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University

Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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row long. In other respects the Kaffirs are likethe Hindus. They offer sacrifices ofcows and goats, and have ceremoniesand feasts in honor of the gods, who areboth male and female, according to theIndian theory. Like the greater races, 744 GREAT RACES OE MANKIND. they venerate the souls of their ances-tors. Amusements are popular, andmusic and dancing- are cultivated to ahigh degree. Perhaps after dispersed Israel, theGypsies are the most remarkable peopleAnomalous in the world in their dis- place of Gypsies tribution into foreign lands. in the ethnic ° scheme. Their name has been given to them by other peoples, who habit of life has carried them into allquarters of the globe. Their dispersionamong the Western nations began withthe fourteenth century, and has extendedto the present time. It is believed that the Gypsies wereoriginally of the Pariah, or Sudra, caste »that is, the lowest order of Indian soci-ety. Their dialects have certainly beenderived from Hindustani, but each tribe

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AGRICULTURAL LIFE IN INDIA.—Ghaddis Cultivators.—Drawn by E. Zier, from a photograph by E. Bourne. have supposed them to be of Egyptianorigin. They do not call themselvesGypsies, but Rom, ox: Romany. The ver-nacular Sinte is always employed bythem as their own ethnic epithet, andin this it is easy to perceive the wordSindh. Doubtless the original seat ofthe Gypsies was in the valley of theLower Indus, whence their migratory of Gypsies has adopted parts of the vo-cabulary and even of the grammaticalstructure of the languages The race orig-spoken in the countries of ^Ittudra,their sojourn. Perhaps no class of Hindus,people in the world have to a like degreeincorporated into their own speech somuch of other languages; and the incor-porated parts remain without assimila- THE INDICANS.—ISOLATED RACES. 745 tion. Leland, in his work on the Eng-lish Gypsies and Their Language, hasgiven examples of the mongrel speechemployed by these wanderers. Thefollowing two proverbs will suffice toil

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