1895.] fr'om the North- West Provinces of India. 298 



48-98 Mussulman. Panjab 



49-00 Rajput. Patna 



50-86 low caste. Hindoo Panjab 



51-06 Dusadti. Patna 



51-16 Pathan. Peshawur 



52-08 Brahmin. Patna 



53-70 Mussulman. Panjab 



53-70 Pathan. Near Khyber Pass 



54-00 Mussulman Jat. Panjab 



54-90 Mussulman. Panjab 



67-50 low caste Hindoo. Panjab 



Observation on the position occupied by low caste Hindoos in 

 this table shows that the width of nose test of Risley seems here to 

 be inapplicable to skulls. The first low caste Hindoo is the third, 

 the next the tenth most leptorhine noses. Both these should 

 then rank above, for instance, the Rajput, and with another low 

 caste Hindoo above the Brahmin. The Brahmin barely escapes 

 the epithet of plathyrhine. The differences between him and the 

 three low caste Hindoos higher than him in their indices are 

 10-41, 4-92 and 1*12 respectively. 



These numbers indicate that many castes are heterogeneous. 

 Risley, in the volume mentioned above, shows how that some men, 

 having become independent landed proprietors^ etc., enrol them- 

 selves in one of the leading castes, the favourite one being the 

 Rajput. They finally intermarry and become recognized Rajputs, 

 and thus the difficulty is increased manifold. On this point see 

 Prof. Charles's paper, Journal Asiatic Soc. of Bengal, Vol. LXiii., 

 Part iii. No. 1. 



Orbital index. 



This ranges from 76"92 to 97-50. Nine of the skulls possess 

 microseme orbits, nine mesoseme, and five megaseme. 



Palatine index. 



This ranges from 77*49 to 103'70. Hence all skulls, in which 

 this index was at all reliable, i.e. twenty in number, are markedly 

 dolichuranic. The clusters are at 80, 85 and 96. 



Facial indices. 



i. Nasio-mental and bizygomatic index. 



This ranges from 9310 to 130. The indices cluster at 80 

 to 85. 



ii. Nasio-mental and bimaxillary index. 

 This ranges from 106-12 to 124 70. 



