The division of the Purbuttis into three groups is natural. The Khasiyas, in Kumaon and Gurwhal, are Indo-Gangetic Indians with the minimum of intermixture, it being stated that in those two countries the aboriginal impure race is extinct. On the east the extreme tribes are likely to pass into the Bodo and Dhimál, on the west into the Cashmirian type.
Again, the political relations of the eastern Purbutti are with Nepaul. Those of the west with Cashmir and the Punjâb.
As to the real phænomena of intermixture, they can only be ascertained by a great increase of our information for the parts in question; since they are preeminently irregular in their distribution, e. g. in Konawer, where the language is Seriform, and the physiognomy Tibetan, the religion is an imperfect Brahminism; whilst in Jobool (and probably elsewhere) we find by the side of a Hindu language and physiognomy the custom of Polyandria, common to both the Seriform Tibetans and the Tamul Malabars.
THE CASHMIRIAN(?).
Locality.—The Valley of Cashmir.
Language.—Indo-Gangetic.
Religion.—Mahometanism.
Physical appearance.—Referable to the second type, with clearness of complexion and regularity of features at its maximum.
The note of interrogation denotes that the non-Indo-Gangetic element of the Cashmirians is uncertain. It may be Tamul; it may be Seriform; it may, on the other hand, belong to the class represented by the Siaposh, and other Quasi-Iranian, or Iranian, populations.