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....... 17-31

Situation and size of India, 17, 18; the four regions of which it is composed, 18; first region—the Himálayas, 18-21; Himálayan river system—Indus, Sutlej, Brahmaputra, Ganges and Jumna, 21, 22; second region—river plains of India, 22, 23; work done by the rivers—the Bengal Delta, 23-26; crops and scenery of the northern river plains, 26, 27; third region—the southern table-land, its scenery, rivers and products, 27-30; fourth region—Burma, 30, 31; materials for reference, 31.

....... 32-39

General survey of the people, 32, 33; population statistics in British and Native India, 33-35; density of population, 36; scarcity of large towns, 36; overcrowded and under-peopled Districts, 36, 37; distribution of the people, 37; nomadic system of husbandry, 37; rise in rents, 37, 38; abolition of serfdom, 38; four-fold division of the people, 38, 39; the two chief races of pre-historic India, 39; materials for reference, 39.

...... 40-51

The non-Aryans or 'Aborigines,' 40; as described in the Veda, 40, 41; the non-Aryans at the present day, 41, 42; the Andaman islanders, 42; hill tribes in Madras, 42, 43; in the Vindhya ranges, 43; in the Central Provinces, 44; leaf-wearing tribe in Orissa, 44; Himálayan tribes, 44, 45; the Santáls of Lower Bengal, their system of government history, &c., 45-47; the Kandhs of Orissa,