Eurasians is a convenient term for the offspring of Europeans and Asiatics, and is chiefly used in India of the children by European fathers of Hindu mothers, and their descendants. It occurs in A Few Local Sketches, by J. M. (Calcutta, 1844).—The term Eurasian is also used in geography for facts true of Europe and Asia (Eurasia) taken as one continent.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 459
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