[461] The name Rajputs is only honorary, and is attached to a crowd of tribes and castes varying in origin, in mode of life, and in dress. The Jats of the Punjab, of which the Sikhs are only a section, are constituted of a mixture of strongly differentiated populations.
[462] Risley, loc. cit.; Crooke, loc. cit.; Fonseca Cardoso, “O indigena de Satory,” Revista de Scien. Naturæs, vol. iv., No. 16, Oporto, 1896.
[463] Biddulph, Tribes of the Hindoo-Koosh, Calcutta, 1880; De Ujfalvy, Aus dem Westl. Himalaya, Leipzig, 1884; Leitner, The Hunza and Nagar Handbook, London, 1893; Capus, Manuscript Notes; Risley, loc. cit.
[464] The brother of the dead husband may marry all the latter’s widows, and none of them has the right to marry again without the consent of her brother-in-law. There is no term in the Chin and Yeshkhun languages to denote nephews and nieces—they are called “sons or daughters”; aunts on the maternal side are called “mothers.”
[465] De Ujfalvy, “Les Koulou,” Bull. Soc. Anthr., 1882, p. 217; Forsyth, Yarkand Mission, Calcutta, 1875; S. Mateer, Native Life in Travancore, London, 1883; Elie Reclus, loc. cit., p. 143 (Nairs); E. Schmidt, “Die Naïrs,” Globus, vol. lxviii. (1895), No. 22; Waddell, loc. cit. (Am. Himal.), chap. ix.
[466] Sarasin, loc. cit., gives bibliog.; Deschamps, Ceylan, loc. cit. For the measurements of these peoples, see the [Appendices I.] and [II.]
[467] The Hajemis of the Caspian littoral are called more particularly Talych and Mazandarani.
[468] The interminglings with the Turks must be of recent date; for if we may still discuss the “Turanian” characters of the Sumero-Acadian language, there is no indication of the existence of the Turkish race in Asia Minor in ancient times. The famous sculptured head of Tello (in the Louvre) has a false Turkish air, owing to the head-dress and the broken nose; three other statuettes from the same locality, preserved at Paris, have a fine and prominent nose and meeting eyebrows: Assyroid characters (see De Clercq, Album des Antiq. de la Chaldée, Paris, 1889–91; Maspero, Hist. des peupl. Orient. Class., vol. i., p. 613, Paris, 1895; and E. de Sarzec, Découvertes en Chaldée, published by Heuzey, Paris, 1885–97).
[469] D. Menant, “Les Parsis,” Ann. Mus. Guin., Bibl. Et., vol. vii., Paris.
[470] E. Oliver, Across the Border, Pathan and Biloch, London, 1890.