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INTRODUCTION.

il faut done l'appeller Pre'dravidien, ou, si nous voulons lui donner un nom qui ne soit pas relatif a une autre population, on peut l'appeler Negre Pariah."

In support of M. Lapicque's statement that the primitive inhabitant was dolichocephalic or sub-dolichocephalic, I may produce the evidence of the cephalic indices of the various jungle tribes which I have examined in the Tamil, Malayalam, and Telugu countries : —

Cephalic Index. — Average. Maximum. Minimum. Kadir 72-9 80 -o 69-1 Irula, Chingleput 73'l 78-6 68 -4 Kanikar 73'4 78-9 69*1 Mala Vedan 73'4 80-9 68-8 Panaiyan 74 -o 8i-i 69-4 Chenchu 74*3 So-5 64-3 Sholaga 74*9 79*3 67-8 Paliyan 757 79-1 72-9 Irula, Nilgiris ... 75-8 80-9 70 -8 Kurumba 76-5 83-3 71-8

It is worthy of note that Haeckel defines the nose of the Dravidian as a prominent and narrow organ. For Risley has laid down *[1] that, in the Dravidian type, the nose is thick and broad, and the formula expressing the proportionate dimension (nasal index) is higher than in any known race, except the Negro ; and that the typical Dravidian, as represented by the Male Paharia, has a nose as broad in proportion to its length as the Negro, while this feature in the Aryan group can fairly bear comparison with the noses of sixty-eight Parisians, measured by Topinard, which gave an average of 69.4.

  1. ↑
    • Tribes and Castes of Bengal, 1891.
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