In Bengal, many of the upper classes of Sudras have devoted themselves to wholesale trade ; although there, also, the Jain Marwari from Rajputana and the north-west occupy the front rank. Their headquarters are in Murshidabad district ; and Jain Marwari are found throughout the valley of the Brahmaputra as far up as the unexplored frontier of China. They penetmte everywhere among the wild tribes • and it is said that the natives of the Khassya Hills are the only hiffinen who do their own business of buying and selling. In tho North-lVestern Provinces and Oudh, the traders aro generally called Banya ; and in the Panjab are found tho Khatri (Kshat riya), who have perhaps the best title of anT to regard themselves as descendanta of the original Vaisya.
Not inferior to any Hindus as active, intelligent traders, are tho Labbi, a 3fahomedan race, who also speak Tamil ; another Mahomedau race, the Khoja, have spread from Sind to the western and central parts of tho Peninsula of India, and along the shores of Arabia and of eastern Africa as far south a.s the Portuguese dominions. The Borah and /demon Mahomedans are keen tradesmen. The Mopla Mahomedans are but little engaged in inland traffie. Other Mahomedans from Persia aro trading in all tho ports of Southern Asia ; and Arab Mahomedans, as merchants and missionaries, ere occupying all tho eastern and northern parts of Africa, and have gone eastwards through the Indian Ocean to the islands of the .Archipclago.
Another race of Aryan descent, tho Parsecs, are seen throughout all the south rind east of Asia, itnd, with mercantile men of Indo - Germanic race, from Great Britain, France, Germany, and America, they conduct nearly all tho foreign trade.
The bold, self-reliant non-Aryan tribes of British India have emigrated largely as labourers to Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, and Burma; to the West Indies, to S. America, S. Africa, the Mauri tius, and Bourbon ; but as skillal producers they have been far outstripped by tho Chinese, whose numbers in Borneo, in Australia, Mauritius, and the western of the United States, have assumed poli tical importance ; and to the east, in the Archi pelago, the Bugi or Macassar men traverse the seas from Sumatra to New Guinea.—Ilich's Kur distan; Madras Mail, 7th Juno 1870 ; Imp. GO:. ; Stat. Abstract; Maritime Trade of British India ; Foreign and Inland Trade Reports ; Accounts of Trade and Navigation ; Moral and Allat. Prog. ; Miscellan. Statistics ; Trade and Ns v. Accts.