Caste,tribes & culture of India: Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab Jammu & Kashmir and Sikkim

This study of the castes and tribes of North India forms the sixth volume in the Tribes of India series. The previous volume covered only Uttar Pradesh, and this one comprises the tribes of the portion of Punjab which falls on the Indian side. Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Rajasthan and the area round about. In considering the tribes of Punjab it is inevitable that overlapping, occurs because countries can be divided not so its people, and same races are bound to be common to the now divided Punjab, the eastern and the western half.
While in South India the neolithic period was immediately followed by the iron age, in the North a copper age intervened between the neolithic period and the iron age. In fact the South was not much known to the inhabitants of the North, and Panini, who was born in 700 s.c. at Salatura (Lahore) knew nothing of the South. At about this time, however, the northern races began to penetrate the forest land of the Vindhyas.