Risley, Herbert H.; Crooke, William [Editor]: The people of India: being an attempt to trace the progress of the national mind in its various aspects, as reflected in the nation’s literature from the earliest times to the present day ; with copious extracts from the best writers (Calcutta [u.a.], 1915)

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PEOPLE OF INDIA

Voltaire, A. de, on proverbs, 128.
Vratya, outcasts degraded from higher
castes, 92.

Vredenburg, Mr. E., on the geology of

Baluchistan, 51.
Vyasokta Brahmans, low status of, 116 ;

widow marriage among, 94.
Vyas Saraswat Brahmans, widow marriage

among, 94.

W

Waddei.l, Lt.-Col. .L. A., measurements
carried out by, 22 ; on the ethnology of the
Kochh, 41, 42 ; on the nasal index of the
Garos, 44.

WaGHIA tribe, proverb regarding, 325.

Walterkrit Rajputra Hitakarini Sabha,
marriage regulations enforced by, 196-199.

Was of Burma, totemism among the, 103.

Westermarck, Prof. E., on infant and
widow marriage, 155-

Widow marriage, permitted in Vedic
times, 182 ; popular feeling about its ex-
tension, 185, 186 ; among Muhammadans,
214 ; shaving of widows, 313 ; proverbs
regarding, 310.

X

Xanthochroid type, the, 24

Y

Yajur Veda, the, instance of female >n'

fanticide in, 166.
Yashvantrao, worship of, 229.
Yeruva tribe, measurements of, 21, 22.
Yueciii, the, 58, 59 ; Great and Little, 59-
Yule, Sir H., on the word " caste," 67, 6*
Yusaf Ali, Mr., on the uniformity of India"

life, 299.

Z

ZaHRI Baloch, proverb regarding, 32S.
Z."\I, a tribal group in Baluchistan, 66.
ZaRAKZAI Baloch, jDroverb regarding, 32^
Zimmer, H., on widow marriage in

Vedic age, 182 ; on the lustration of

bride's clothing, 189.

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