ANTHROPOLOGY OF A^IA 4-3 



III 



In Leucodermic India the anthropological composition 

 is not the same every where. The strongest dolichocephal- 

 ism is found in the true Aryan region, properly called 

 Aryandom (which seems to be the Vedic group : the 

 Punjab, Rajputana and the United Provinces), called also 

 the Midland, as distinguished from the other regions called 

 "Outer Countries." In all the castes of the provinces 

 that now represent the above-mentioned Aryandom, and 

 also among the Maithil Brahmans of Bihar, the dolicho- 

 cephals prevail, there being only 25% of the mesaticephals 

 and \'7>% of the brachycephals among living subjects, 

 which again is reduced to zero in the skeleton. Vice versa, 

 in the most typical castes of the outer zone, with the 

 exception of Bihar, we have a prevalence of mesati-brachy- 

 cephalism. Hence Chanda arrives at the conclusion that 

 " not only social institutions, and language, but an im- 

 portant physical feature also, the shapa of the skull, show 

 that the Inda* Aryans of the outer countries originally 

 off/me from an ethnic stock that was different from the stock 

 from which the Vedic Aryans originated" 



The difference in the cephalic index between the 

 Biharis above mentioned and the Bengalis, will be seen 

 from the following Summary which brings together the 

 measurements taken by Chanda himself in 1909 and 1910 

 and now published. 



CH A:\DA, 11. The Indo- Aryan Races, Pure I, Rajshahi, 1916, p. 59. 



