54 The Ethnology of India. 
caste and good looking Hindoos, so the name is probably not the 
same. Is every direction, however, there is room for inquiry. 
One word regarding a people in another quarter who have been 
classed with the Indian Aborigines, the Brahuis of the higher parts 
of Belochistan near Khelat, &c. These people are set down as allied 
to the Dravidians upon, I think, the slightest possible evidence, but it is 
one of those things that, having once got into print, is in the absence 
of farther information repeated again and again, till it seems an 
established fact. Dr. Caldwell, in his amiable enthusiasm for his 
beloved Dravidians, and seeking to establish for them an aristocratic 
pedigree, without acknowledging obligation to the northern Hindoos, 
seizes upon the Brahuis as the link to connect them with the more 
northern nations and goes somewhat into the matter. 
The Brahuis are described as a stout, squat, somewhat flat- 
faced people, fair, with hair and beards often brown if not red. That 
they have indications of some Turanian element both in feature and 
speech, may be at once admitted, using the word Turanian in its widest 
sense; but for the rest anything in greater contrast to the slim black 
Dravidian Aborigines, it is impossible to imagine. They are very 
remote from any Dravidian tribe, the nearest being the Gonds. Their 
language is not supposed to show any affinity to the Kolarians. 
On the other hand, in one direction we have not far to seek for an 
explanation of the Turanian element in the features of the Brahuis. 
The Hazarehs of the hill country near Ghuznee and Candahar have it 
in a more marked degree, and are without doubt of Mongolian blood. 
‘They seem to be in many ways like the Brahuis, and we are told 
that at one time they possessed the country on the Khelat side of 
Candahar, and were nearer than they now are to the Brahuis. That 
the latter have some of their blood, or may even be a branch of them 
driven to the hills by Belochees or Hindoos, would seem priméd facie 
the most probable thing in the world. It is then only by the test of 
language that any Dravidian connection can be assigned to the 
Brahuis, and in the case of people otherwise so dissimilar and so dis- 
tant, the linguistic evidence ought to be very strong, to satisfy us. I 
have been unable to find a paper giving a list of Brahui words said 
to have been published by this Society, but Dr. Caldwell seems to 
sum up all the evidence on the subject. He admits that ‘the Brahui 
