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him is not very happy : differing from Sergi, he does 

 not believe that here we have to do with Mongoloids, 

 not even in the case of the Hazaras, 1 which, instead, he 

 should have heen able to concede. 



On general lines this is how Chanda writes : " ...... the 



physical anthropology of the Pamirs and Chinese 

 Turkestan, as gathered from data collected by Ujfalvy 

 and Sir Aurel Stein, indicates that we need not lay 

 the Turks, the Scythians and the Mongolians under 

 contribution to explain the presence of broad or medium 

 heads among outlandic Indo- Aryans or Indo-Afghans."- 

 Chanda believes that the hypothesis of Haddon may be 

 really true : " it seems quite possible that these braehy- 

 cephals are the result of an unrecorded migration of some 

 members of the Alpine race from the highlands of 

 south-west Asia in pre -historic times. " j At that time 

 it must have happened that when penetrating into India 

 the immigrants of the type of Homo Alinnm found the 

 middle portion of the Gangetic plain (the above-mention- 

 ed "Midland") in possession of the Yedic Arjans, 

 and thence they proceeded to a lower territory, and, 

 leaving aside the table-land of Central India, thev 



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descended along its eastern border as far as Orissa. 

 Other waves of the immigrants descended alon^ the 

 western side, passing into the peninsula of Kathiawar 

 and the Deccan. The last wave may have been that of the 

 people speaking the PisTicha languages (the Kashmiris, 



Ibid., p. 3<>. 



- CHANDA (R.), op. c-it., pp. 70-71. It gives me great pleasure to state that 

 Chanda in his work referred to. which I have received from India after my note 

 already cited, ".4 pioposito di aloini risultati anthropologici" etc. '(published by 

 me in the "Rend, della R. Ace. d. Sc. fie. e mat. di Xapoli"), makes the same appraise- 

 ment of the very unequal worth possessed by the facts gathered by 1'jfalvy nnd Stein 

 and by the hypotheses adopted formerly by other authors. 



:i HADHOX (A. C.), T/M- /?/?* / M<., London, pp. (iO-01 : rf. also .,f i he same 

 author: The Wandering* of Peoples, Cambridge, 1911, ], '27. 



