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the Andhras from the South overran Central India is too late 
a date for the immigration of the Gonds from the south of 
the Godavari. It is possible that during the Andhra ascen- 
dancy some Dravidian families may have settled in Centra 
India. These may well have been Gonds, but this is not suffi- 
cient to account for their presence there in such force as men- 
tioned before. That Gonds have been for ages in Central 
India is testified to, by even mountains, rivers and valleys 
which bear names taken from their aboriginal tongue. For 
instance, in the northernmost districts Saugor, Damoh and 
Jubbulpore, where Gondi has practically disappeared, we find 
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pometrical survey in the Central Provinces to enable one to 
give precisely the cephalic or nasal index which is the order of 
the day. And let me here interpose a remark about the relia- 
bility of anthropometry in the case of Indian people. Of the 
three main methods applied for distinguishing b2tween the races 
of mankind, viz. physical, cultural and linguistic, the first 
named is considered as the most satisfactory basis on which 
classification of mankind can be erected. Skin, colour, hair, 
stature, nose, face and head-form are the chief factors constl- 

