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The Rivers as Highways and as Destroyers, .... 61-64

Scenery and Crops of the Northern River Plains, . . . 64-67

Third Region of India : the Southern Table-land,. . . 67-74

The Deccan; the Ghats and their Passes, .... 67-70

The Four Forest Regions of Southern India , . . . 71,72

Crops and Scenery of Southern India , . . . . . 72,73

Fourth Region of India: Burma , . . . . . -74175

CHAPTER II.

THE PEOPLE.

Feudatory India; the Chiefs and their Powers, ... 76

The Twelve British Provinces; how governed, . . . 76-78

Population Tables, ........ 78,79

Pressure of Population; overcrowded Districts, . . . 80,81

Under-peopled Provinces ; the‘immobile’Indian Peasant, . 81,82

Nomadic System of Husbandry, ...... 83

The Land and Labour Question in India ; Serfdom , . . 83, 84

Unequal Pressure of Population; its Remedies, . . . 84,85

Population of India in 1872, 1881, and 1891; Increase, . 85-88

The Ethnical Elements of the Indian Peoples, . . .88, 89

CHAPTER III.

THE NON-ARYAN RACES.

Kistvaen Builders; Flint and Bronze Periods, . . . 91

The Non-Aryans of Vedic India described, . . . .91,92

Andaman Islanders ; Anamalai Hill Tribes, . . . ' , 93

Polyandry among the Nairs; the Gonds, . . . , 93,94

Leaf-wearing Juangs of Orissa ; Himalayan Tribes, . . 94,95

The Santals ; Village and Tribal Government, . . - 95 , 96

Santal Customs, Religion, and History, .... 96-98

The Kandhs ; Tribal Government, Wars, and Blood Revenge, 98, 99Kandh Marriage by Capture; Human Sacrifice, . . -99, 100

The Three Non-Aryan Stocks—Tibeto-Burmans, Dravidians,

and Kolarians ; their Languages, ..... 101-110Statistics of Non-Aryan Races in 1872, 1881, and 1891, . no, m

Crushed Tribes ; Gipsy Clans ; Predatory Tribes, . . . 111,112

Character of the Non-Aryan Tribes,.113