Excerpt from Indian Studies In the winter, in the plains of the Punjab, Rajputana and Central India the climate for some four or five months is tem perate. In the two former provinces pools are frozen over, but the length of the winter decreases the further south the latitude. The climate of the internal mountain ranges and high plateaux above an altitude of feet is temperate in summer and cool in winter, below that altitude it is similar to that of the great plains. The climate naturally re-acts on the people, where the winter is temperate they are fairer, of better physique and more manly. It is from the Stony Girdle of the Earth that the virile races have for long ages gone forth as conquerors of India, and the further south they have migrated in the country the quicker they have lost their virility, till in the south and the Ganges Valley little remains. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.