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Chanda maintains that the Munda language has been 

 spoken by the entire Nisada or Pre-Dravidian race, and 

 has been preserved only by a part of them, namely, the 

 wild tribes of Chotanagpur and the Savaras .and Juangs 

 of Orissa. The Bhils, instead, have taken up the Indo- 

 aryan language, and the Gonds, the Khands and the 

 Oraons together with the tribes of the South Indian 

 jungles have taken up the Dravidian language. In all 

 these tribes are found included the pre-existing Negritos. 



"While Thurston thinks that the Veddahs and the tribes 

 of the South-Indian jungles maybe called Pre-Dravidians, 1 

 Lapicque maintains instead, by observations that he has 

 himself made in the interior of the Peninsula that the 

 Pre-Dravidian was x>f Negro type. He has seen on the 

 border of the virgin forest and also on the hills partially 

 covered with wood, " some groups in whom the Negro 

 face, clearly designed, is wholly predominant." In these 

 groups " the hair is generally curled and among them 

 may be observed some that may even be called woolly."' 2 

 This is not surprising, if, as already I have pointed out, 

 we are dealing with remnants of the Negritos. 



1 THURSTON (E.) and RANGACHARI (K.), op. cit., Vol. I,'lntrocluction, p. xxxi. 



2 Lapicque (L.), Les Negres d'Asie et la race Negre en general. "Rev, Sclent." VI, 

 July, 1906, 



