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GlUFFRIDA-llUGGERI & CTIAKLADA 



SUMMAUV III. 



Likewise from the measurements published by liisley 1 

 will be seen the very great difference that exists between 

 the Brahmans of Eastern Bengal who show 35^ of 

 brachycephals (in living subjects) and the Brahmans of 

 the United Provinces, who have only 2% , or the Rajputs 

 of Rajputana who have hardly l'l% : we are here con- 

 fronted by the problem of the brachycephals of India. 

 Risley has quite rightly been preoccupied with this dif- 

 ferent bearing and he has explained it by assuming- 

 a Mongolo-Dravidian origin for the Bengalis and Oriyas. 

 But here too it is only a confusion that leads one to talk 



1 Ethnographical Appendices to " Census of India," 1901, Report. 

 - Bisr,EY-(H. H.), Tribes and Carte* of Bengal, Calcutta, 1891-1892; The People of 

 India, op. cit., p. 33, 



