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Title: Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology World history
Publisher: Boston : Balch Bros.
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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eat branch of the modernIranians includes the Beluchs, or nativepeoples of Beluchistan. Here again thelanguage spoken, called in piaceofthethe vernacular Baluchekee, ,^t,?f„^^ ^^theindicates unmistakably side of India,the common ethnic descent of thesepeople with the Persians. Indeed, thedialect is so much like New Persian asto point to the fact of a very late sep-aration of the Beluchs from the WestIranians. Here, as in Afghanistan, thepeople have been infected to a greatdegree in language and institutions bycontact with India. Indeed, there isa dialect spoken by the Brahoes whichis manifestly derived from the languagesof the Punjab, and not from an Iraniansource. All along the border there isa great admixture of the two races, andthe prevalence of a common Moham-medanism has tended to a community ofinstitutions and ethnic character. In person, the Beluchs are of aboutthe same stature with the Tajiks. Manyof them are above the average height.The prevailing bodily form is lithe, and
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NORTHERN BELUCHS—TYPES.—Mountaineeks of the Western Himalayas.—Drawn by Emile Bayard, from a photograph. THE IRA NIA NS. —BEL UCHS. 637 tures and ra■traits of theBeluchs. not suggestive of great physical strength.The people are inured to great and rapidPersonal fea- chauges of season and cli-^ mate peculiar to the coun-try, and are exposed by theirout-of-door life to many hardships. Theybear fatigue, and arecapable of longinarches and endur-ance of hunger. Theyare a brave and pred-atory race, restless,and addicted to war.The physiognomy isstrongly marked, thecomplexion is almostas dark as that of theHindus, the nose isbroad and flat, theforehead low. Thehair and beard areabundant and coarse;the hands and feet,large and heavy, inwhich feature theyare strongly discrim-inated from the Ar-yans of India, whoseextremities are fine,even to delicacy. The Beluchs havepreserved in theircharacter, and evencultivated, the ele-ment of cruelty andbarbarous outragewhich we have notedas pec

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