132 Dr. J. Anderson — On Manilas of Chut id Nuypur and Burma. [June, 



parts of Europe. During his recent visit home, he (Mr. Rivett-Carnac) had 

 had an opportunity of visiting the excellent Prehistoric Museum presented 

 to the town of Salisbury by Messrs. Blackmore and Stevens, and he had 

 been much struck with the great similarity between the remains dug out 

 of the barrows of Central India, (which had been exhibited to the Society) 

 and those discovered in the English Barrows. 



As in Europe so in India, these tumuli were generally to be found in 

 what, for a long time, at least, must have been very inaccessible parts of the 

 country. The tribes in India who kept up the old customs were, so far as 

 he could understand, quite a different race from their neighbours of the 

 plains, and the view seemed to be generally accepted that these hill-men 

 were all that now remained of the tribes found in India by the Aryans on 

 their taking possession of the country. Future enquiries, and discoveries 

 might, perhaps, establish the view which had been suggested in many 

 quarters, that the builders of the tumuli in Europe and Asia were originally 

 of the same Central Asian stock, one portion of which, in ages past had 

 marched westward, another moving southward towards India. As time 

 went on other, other and more powerful hordes, following the same routes 

 taken by their predecessors several centuries before, drove into the woods 

 and fastnesses these so-called aboriginal tribes, whose common origin is 

 suggested by the similarity in the monumental remains found in many 

 parts of Northern Europe, and also in Central and Southern India, and 

 among the hills inhabited by the tribes of which Colonel Dalton had given 

 the Society so interesting a description. 



Dr. Anderson remarked that the fact mentioned by Col. Dalton that the 

 Mundas of Chutia Nagpur exhibit distinct traces of a Mongolian origin in the 

 style of their features was one of great interest. Many years ago, Mr. Logan 

 had pointed out, and more recently Sir George Campbell, that there is a simi- 

 larity between the language of the aboriginal tribes of Chutia Nagpur and 

 the language of the Burmo-Malayan people. In connection with this 

 subject, there is an interesting commentary, or verification of Col. Dalton's 

 statement regarding the Mongolian affinity of the Kolarians, to be found 

 in the last number of the Philological Section of the Asiatic Society's 

 Journal. There Sir A. Phayre points out that the first syllable of the 

 word Munda which is the word used to designate the language of several 

 tribes of the western highlands of Bengal, is identical with the race name of 

 the people of Pegu, and he is of opinion that the Mun or Talaing people 

 of Pegu are of the same stock as the Kols. Thus these two authorities 

 arrive at the same conclusion independently of each other and by two widely 

 different methods. 



The word Muang which is of such frequent occurrence in Western 

 Yunan, and along both banks of the Cambodia, would seem to be the same 



