Ballantyne Press

BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO.

EDINBURGH AND LONDON

MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS

RELATING TO

INDIAN SUBJECTS

BY

BRIAN HOUGHTON_HODGSON/Esq., F.R.S.

LATE OF THE BENGAL CIVIL SERVICE;

CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE; chevalier of THE LEGION OF HONOUR :
HONORARY MEMBER OF THE GERMAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY AND THE SOCIÉTÉ

ASIATIQUE; MEMBER OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETIES OF CALCUTTA AND
LONDON; OF THE ETHNOLOGICAL AND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETIES

OF LONDON; AND LATE BRITISH MINISTER AT THE
COURT OF NEPAL.

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VOL. II.

2LONDON:

TRÜBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL

1880.

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HARVARD COLLEGE

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LIBRARY

Lucy Ragood fund,

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

SECTION III.

[Bengal Journal, 1849, vol. xvii., part i., pp. 451-460.]

ON THE ABORIGINES OF NORTH-EASTERN INDIA

COMPARATIVE VOCABULARY OF THE TIBETAN, BÓDÓ, and Gáró

TONGUES

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I

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SECTION IV.

[Bengal Journal, vol. xix., pp. 1–8.]

ABORIGINES OF THE NORTH-EASTERN FRONTIER

SECTION V.

[Bengal Journal, vol. xviii., part ii., pp. 967-975.]

ABORIGINES OF THE EASTERN FRONTIER

SECTION VI

[Bengal Journal, vol. xxii., pp. 1-25.]

THE INDO-CHINESE BORDERERS, AND THEIR CONNECTION WITH

THE HIMALAYANS AND TIBETANS

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SECTION VII

[Bengal Journal, vol. xxii., pp. 26-76.]

THE MONGOLIAN AFFINITIES OF THE CAUCASIANS.

COMPARISON AND ANALYSIS OF CAUCASIAN AND MONGOLIAN

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SECTION IX.

[Bengal Journal, vols, xvii., xviii., xix.]

THE ABORIGINES OF CENTRAL INDIA

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112

119

VOCABULARY OF SOME OF THE DIALECTS OF THE HILL AND

WANDERING TRIBES IN THE NORTHERN SIRCARS

ABORIGINES OF THE NILGIRIS, WITH REMARKS ON

AFFINITIES

SUPPLEMENT TO THE NILGIRIAN VOCABULARIES

["Selections from the Records of Bengal," No. IV.]

ROUTE OF NEPALESE MISSION TO PEKIN, WITH REMARKS on

THE WATER-SHED AND PLATEAU OF TIBET