The Ethnology of India. 15 
longer, the tide of Arian immigration was more gradual, and 
the Aboriginal grammar and radicals formed the mould which 
was only filled up by a large over-lay of Arian words. The 
change then of language takes place, where passing southwards we 
exchange the Maratta for Telugu and Canarese. But looking at 
the people, we see no radical change of feature or characteristics. The 
last of those who are more properly Arian in language, are not essen- 
tially superior to the first of those whose language is by its structure 
classed as Dravidian. The Marattas who are classed as Northerners 
(though they probably take their name and much of their blood from 
the aboriginal Mhars and such like tribes, whose features survive in 
their monuments) have no decided advantage over their Canarese 
neighbours; on the contrary, the Canarese of Belgaum and Dharwar 
are deemed superior to the Marattas of the adjoining districts. And 
to a traveller in Mysore and most of the Southern countries, the 
general features and appearance of the people is, I think, not very 
greatly less Arian than that of the lower classes of Hindustanees. 
The truth I take to be, not only that in a mixture of races there is a 
tendency of the higher, more marked, and more prominent type to 
predominate, but also that it may well be that, although the people 
speaking a Dravidian language in the South, may always by force of 
numbers have linguistically prevailed over each separate batch of 
immigrants, and so far annexed them, still by successive immigra- 
tions, notwithstanding a Dravidian form of speech, the Arian blood 
has come in reality greatly to prevail. The mere fact that they 
are recognised as Orthodox Hindoos, seems to imply the Northern 
origin of all the better castes in the South, and that is their own 
account of their origin. I have no doubt that the Southern Hindoos } 
may be generally classed as Arians, and that the Southern society is | 
in its structure, its manners, and its laws and institutions an Arian 
society. After all, in their main characteristics, the Southern people | 
are very like those of the North. 
Among some of the inferior tribes of the South, the remains of the 
thick lips, the very black skin, and other features may, as I have said, 
still be traced, but, colour perhaps excepted, the aboriginal features 
are probably gradually wearing away. 
Notwithstanding the identity in the main of the North and the 
