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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 900 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EURASIAN , a See also:

term originally confined to See also:India, where for upwards of See also:half a See also:century it was used to denote See also:children See also:born of See also:Hindu mothers and See also:European (especially Portuguese )fathers. Following the See also:geographical employment of the word Eurasia to describe the whole of the See also:great See also:land See also:mass which is divided into the continents of See also:Europe and See also:Asia, Eurasian has come 'to be descriptive of any half-castes born of parents representing the races of the two continents. It has further an ethnological sense, A. H. See also:Keane (See also:Ethnology, 1886) proposing to find in the Eurasian See also:Steppe the true See also:home of the See also:primitive See also:Aryan See also:groups.

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