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 .. . MUSSULMAN OF CASHMERE— by E. Zier, from a photograph by Hurke. ,Persians. They were originally Arabs, Mllghals, and piaceofthe In successive in- Mohammedansamong the vasions, occurring at inter- Indian races,vals sometimes of centuries, the followersof the Prophet have thrown themselvesfrom the west into Sindh, the Punjab,and all the Northwest provinces. Onsome occasions the impact has ca
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 .. . MUSSULMAN OF CASHMERE— by E. Zier, from a photograph by Hurke. ,Persians. They were originally Arabs, Mllghals, and piaceofthe In successive in- Mohammedansamong the vasions, occurring at inter- Indian races,vals sometimes of centuries, the followersof the Prophet have thrown themselvesfrom the west into Sindh, the Punjab,and all the Northwest provinces. Onsome occasions the impact has carried. THE INDICANS.—RACE DI\ISIONS. 689 bands of invaders as far east as conquests have always been ac-companied with religious has borne the sword in one handand the Koran in the other. Indeed,the impulse which has carried the armiesof the Prophet north, south, east, andwest from the original seat in Arabiahas always been rather the spread ofIslam than the mere conquest ofnations. On the whole, the Mohammedan in-vasions in India have by this criterionbeen attended with success. More thanforty million of people have adoptedthe Arab faith, and we thus have an-other remarkable example of the inter-fusion of a Semitic religion among theAryan races. Next to the Hindus them-selves the Mohammedans are the mostpopulous division of the Indian difference in numbers, however,between them and the non-Aryan Kola-rians and Dravidians is not great, but inrespect of spirit and power the Moham-medans are infinitely above the aborigi-nal peoples of the south. In
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