Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1917 — The People of India. [ARTICLE]

The People of India.

The population of Iftdla is far more diverse than is generally thought. They talk about 150 different languages, and are divided up into 43 distinct nationalities. There are 2,387 main castes, besides a large number of subcastes. There are 200,000,000 Hindus, from which Great Britain can draw fighting men; 60,000,000 Mohammedans, while among the Hindus there are 50,000,000 of degraded ■ people of no caste, whose touch, or even shadow, is supposed to cause pollution.