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grations from which the teeming millions of India derive their 
origin. is is probably due to the fact that the dominating 
race of Aryans are immigrants and as they came from outside, 
they have fallen into the habit of thinking that their prede- 
cessors did the same. They have, therefore, been at pains to 
discover from various data, Geological, Archeological, Linguis- 
tic and Authropometrical, when their predecessors in the remot- 
est antiquity came over to patronise this land. The primitive 
races are taken back to some period when they are alleged 
to have come to this country from somewhere else. Geologists 
tell us that the Indian Peninsula was formerly cut off from 
the north of Asia by sea, while a land connection existed on 
the one side with Madagascar and on the other with the Malay 
Archipelago, and the inference drawn by some scholars is that 
Peninsula. Thus the theory of immigration suits the propoun- 
ders thereof very well, and they have no hesitation in putting 
forward that the Munda or Kolarian tribes entered India from 
south-east. Again they find Brahuis a tribe in Baluchistan 
speaking a language akin to Oraon from which they conclude 
that the Dravidians entered India from North-West. But no 
reason has been shown why the reverse should not have been 
the case. If India had autochthones why could they not emi- 
grate to Baluchistan, Malay Peninsula and the Indo-Pacific 
Islands? I have not yet come across any cognet reason to 
suppose that India was barren and wholly colonised from out- 
side. As a matter of fact there are several reasons to regard 
the Dravidians as children of the soil. Says Sir George Grier- 
son, ‘‘ The Dravidian languages form an isolated group. Com- 
parative philologists agree that the Munda languages, Khassi, 
Monkhmer, Nancowry and the speech of the aboriginal races of 
the Malay Peninsula contain a common sub-structure which 
found outside India.” It is true that the Australians share 
many of the characteristics of the Dravidians, but there are 
not sufficient reasons to assimilate them into one common 
stock. The question of the origin and old distribation of the 
Dravidian race belongs as remarked by Sir George Grierson 
to the domain of anthropology and of anthropology alone. This 

