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English: Rajput Chief, United Provinces

Identifier: nativesofnorther00croo (find matches)
Title: Natives of northern India
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Crooke, William, 1848-1923
Subjects: Ethnology -- India India -- Social conditions India -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : A. Constable and Company, ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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dian cultivators, southern hills, 9. Manjhi cultivators, southern hills, with sacred drum 10. Bhotiyas of Kumaun, northern hills, . 11. Blacksmiths, Chota Nagpur, . 12. Brick-making, 13. A potter at work, 14. A naked Hindu Fakir, Hard war, 15. A Hindu Fakir lying on a bed of nails, 16. A Mohammedan Fakir, 17. A Kalwar, or seller of spirits, 18. Weavers at work, 19. Carpenters at work, • Frontispiece facing page I 16 32 48 586368769097100106118128138147158166 xiv NATIVES OF NORTHERN INDIA PLATE 20. A barber shaving a mourner, 21. Snake-charmers, .... 22. A troupe of Nautch-girls, 23. Her first lesson in spinning, . 24. A peasants hut, Bengal, 25. A Bhotiya village in the northern hills, Assam, 26. Ploughing, ..... 27. Harrowing and clod-crushing, 28. A village scene, Bengal, 29. Women husking rice, Chota Nagpur, 30. Bathing in the Ganges, Hardwar, 31. Pilgrims conveying Ganges water, 32. Sacrificing a goat to the goddess Devi, facing page 173180187 193210218224230236240246252256 No 2
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Rajput Chief, United Provinces (p. 91) NATIVES OF NORTHERN INDIA CHAPTER I DESCRIPTIVE The country, its hills, rivers, plains. Brief historicalsketch. Administrative divisions. The rivers, mountains,and hills. The deltas: the valleys: the plains: thedesert. The influence of their environment upon thepeople. Northern India consists mainly of a vast alluvialplain formed by three river systems, and separated fromthe plateau of Tibet by the Himalaya, the abode ofsnow, the grandest mountain-range in the world. Itis flanked on both sides by an ill-defined hill frontier—on the west the Sulaiman and Safed Koh, on theeast the rough hill-country dividing it from Burma.On the south is a confused mass of hill and junglestretching down to the rivers Nerbuddaand Mahanadi,one draining into the Indian Ocean, the other into theBay of Bengal. The old Hindus called this plain the Middle Land,and in later times the whole region which forms thesubject of this sketch was called Hindostan, theabode of the

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