ANTHROPOLOGY Ol< ASIA 



:,; 



"which are characteristic of the unadulterated jungle 

 tribes. m 



A great elevation of the nasal index is found in the 

 so-called (by Risley) Dravidian tribes of Chotf-Nagpur 

 and of Western Bengal: here are the tribes (Munda and 

 Kol) of the northern jungles, whose habitat Biasutti 2 

 includes in the area where a purer Veddaic substratum 

 has persisted. We think that these tribes have wrongly 

 been called Dravidian by Risley, who gives as characteris- 

 tic Dravidiaus the Santals of Chota-Nagur, who with the 

 Panians present the highest nasal index in the whole of 

 India, as is seen in the following Summary which I take 

 from llisley himself. 3 



SUMMARY VIII. 



(Paeudo-Dmmdian) Tribes of Chotanayptu- and Utt 

 neighbourhood* 



Ibid., Vol. I, Introduction, p. xlvii. 



BIASUTTI (R.). op. cit,, p. 117, and the chart at p. 97. 



RIHF-KY (II. H.), Ike People of India, op. cit., p. 399. 



