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the Daracls and the Kafirs of the Hindukush), because 

 the characteristics of such dialects are found in the 

 majority of the languages of the Indo- Aryans of the 

 outer zone. 



There is, however, a difficulty : the Kafirs, the 

 Kashmiris, etc., appertain to the dolicho-mesatieephals, 

 of the Indo-Afghaii type. Probably Chanda is more 

 correct when at last he comes to the conclusion that the 

 Pisacha peculiarity of such dialects might not have been 

 derived from the invaders of Pisacha languages, but 

 from invaders akin to the brachycephals of Eastern 

 Turkestan who passed through the Hindukush and 

 Kashmir where the above linguistic peculiarities have 

 boon better preserved. At present it is important to 

 add that the brachycephals of Eastern Turkestan also, 

 with the exception of the few Kirghizi and Taranchi, 

 are prevalently of an European face, according to the 

 researches of Stein published by Joyce. Their presence 

 in some percentage I do not think that they form the 

 majority : (1) because Eastern Turkestan is not wholly 

 peopled by brachycephals ; (2) because the regions lying 

 on the way to India are populated by doHchoceplials 

 explains how as a consequence of their passage across 

 Kafiristan. and Dardistan, the cephalic index goes up 

 in the case of the Kafirs and the Dards as compared 

 with the Panditi, Pahari and Kulu-Lalmli, preserved in 

 an out-of-the-way area, on the southern slopes of the 

 Himalayas. 



Crookc also declares that the hypothesis of the Huns 

 or Scythians l is baseless for explaining the percentage of 

 brachycephals found in southern and western India, but 



1 CROOKK (W.). loc. uit., p. 48. SKRGI (EumjM, op. cir., p. 447) declares that lie 

 is unable to explain the differences between Mie Scytho-Dravidians and the Dravidians 

 pure, but does not accept the Scythisiu. 



