63. THE KONKAN AND THE KONKANI LANGUAGE. (GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL). BY RAO 64. THE KONKAN AND KONKANI LANGUAGE. (DEVE- LOPMENT AND GRAMMAR). BY RAO SAHIB DR. 65. THE KONKAN AND THE KONKANI LANGUAGE. (GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.) BY RAO SAHIB DR. 68. ON A RECENT INSTANCE OF THE USE OF THE NUDITY SPELL FOR RAIN-MAKING IN NORTHERN BENGAL. 70. THE FULL MOON FESTIVAL OF THE TRIPURIS OR THE THREE FLYING CITIES OF THE ASURAS. A PROBABLE RELIC OF THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE DEVAS (INDO-ARYANS) AND ASURAS (IRANIAN- 73. RACIAL (FOREIGN AND INDIGENOUS) ORIGINS OF INDIAN STATUTORY AND CUSTOMARY LAWS. BY J. A. SALDANHA ESQ. B.A.,, LL.B. 74. THE SOCIAL LIFE OF A CHRISTIAN OF MEDIEVAL ENGLAND AND THE SOCIAL LIFE OF A PARSI OF MODERN INDIA. BY DR. JIVANJI JAMSHEDJI 75. THE GERM OF THE EVOLUTION THEORY IN OLD OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BOMBAY. RACES AND PLACES. BY A. E. L. EMANUEL, ESQ., I.C.S. (Read on 28th July 1920.) I have no theory to propound in the following rambling few words, and I have discovered no new laws or important generalizations. I only wish to suggest, for the use of those better qualified than myself by linguistic attainments or other advantage, a line of enquiry into certain human conditions which might lead to interesting and valuable conclusions. I wish to record a few remarks on the "oecology," to use a botanical term, of races in India. Botanists have lately given somewhat special attention not only to the range and classification of various plants, but also to the kind of places where they are usually found, and to the kinds of companions they cultivate; and a similar study of human races will not be uninteresting. This is a path of enquiry which can probably be more easily pursued in India than anywhere else, because races do not jostle in Europe (even in Austria and Hungary, and the Balkans) to anything like the same extent that they do in India, and there are no castes in Europe within single States. No doubt the Ford 'caste' is used figuratively in England of different sections of the people, to denote different grades parted by social standing or by wealth, and it is possible to say, in this limited sense, that such and such a class lives in such and such streets in |