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The Paniyans live in Wynad and parts of Malabar 

 and of the Nilgiri district, and are described as " a dark- 

 skinned tribe, short in stature, with broad noses and 

 curly or wavy hair." 1 At the top of the platyrrhines as 

 they are, it is astonishing that Risley, who refers to the 

 same figures, considers them as characteristic Dravidians. 



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It is seen that the conception of the Pre-Dravidian type 

 was unknown to Jlisley and hence lie was unable to 

 characterise adequately the Dravidian type, which begins 

 to appear solely in the last representatives of Summary 



VI but must be much diffused among the tribes of 

 Summary IV: this type is especially represented by the 

 tribes which \ve place together in the following Summary 



VII according to the data of the census of India. 



SUMMARY VII 

 Typicat tribes of Homo Indo-africcnms Dravidicns. 



Comparing the last two summaries, one understands 

 at once how the intercrossing of the jungle tribes with 

 the Dravidian tribes has even at present the effect of 

 diminishing the platyrrhine feature, as seen among the 

 Tamil Irulas whose nasal index comes down to 80'4. 

 Thurston expressly notes the physical change that takes 

 place, when the tribes leave the jungle and approach the 

 cities : thus the Canikars, who live near Travancore, 

 have already 158*7 as stature and 81'2 as nasal index, 

 instead of the low stature and the high nasal index 



THTTRSTON (E.) and RANGACHARI (K.), op. cit., Vol. VI, p. r>7. 



