>s GtUFFRlD A- RUGGER! & CHAKLApAtt 



Similarly the 29 Santals (settled near Ghoraghat in 

 the district of Dinajpur) who were measured by Chanda } 

 present nasal indices that range from a minimum of 

 76'6 to a maximum of 118*1. 



Deniker recognises that the Yeddahs are the remnants 

 of a very primitive population " whose physical type is 

 most approached by the platyrrhinous variety of the 

 Dravidian race," 2 thus indicating precisely the Santals. 

 the Mundas, the Kols, the Bhumij, of whom we have 

 given the anthropometric measurements in Summary 

 YIIJ. We prefer to confine the Dravidian race to the 

 mesorrhine type." In such manner we confer on the 

 Pre- Dravidian s the present numerical preponderance, and 

 their importance in the ethnic stratification of India 

 au g in en ts proportion al 1 y . 



Everything induces us to hold that the Dravidians 

 have really been a small number of invaders, who have 

 introduced their hwynages, and even that not everywhere, 

 since in the Munda-Kol zone more ancient languages have 

 been preserved. It is logical that if the languages have 

 remained in spite of the Dravidian influence, those who 

 speak them should also have been little contaminated. 

 There is, therefore, no reason to consider them as platyr- 

 rhine Dravidians, but certainly as Yeddaic or Australoid : 

 and from the fact that between the Munda-Kols of the 

 North and the Yeddahs of the south there intervene other 

 platyrrhines (the Paniyans, etc.), these latter also represent 

 the same ancient Pre-Dravidian formation that extended 

 at one time over the whole of India and is even now much 



(R.)> op. cit., p. 254. 

 - DENIKER (J.), op. cit., p. 479. 



'' lu that case it will do lib more to speak with Haddon : " The Mun da -speaking 

 peoples are stated to resemble so closely to Uravidians OK io be indistinguishable from 

 them " (The W'anderiity* of People*, op. cit.. p, 20V 



