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that there was some inherent falacy in the whole method. These 

 measurements were taken with special care, each individual being 

 measured three times over and most by two observers. Although 

 they showed the gross differences in head-measurements between 

 the civilized and the uncivilized tribes, they failed completely to 

 demonstrate differences between the heads of the Negrito and of 

 the Indonesian jungle tribes. 



Having in 1916 an opportunity of examining a number of 

 Anglo-Indians anthropometrically, I determined to see whether 

 my doubts were further justified by the investigation of a race 

 known to be of recent mixed origin. Before discussing the methods 

 adopted, I must say a few words about my subjects. They were 

 with very few exceptions, young men between the ages of 18 and 

 40, and with few exceptions belonged to what I ma} 7 call the 

 middle class of so-called Anglo-Indians, mostly employed as clerks, 

 mechanical engineers, overseers and so forth, or else fresh from 

 school and about to take up employment of the kind. The fact 

 is of importance, for social distinctions are somewhat rigidly 

 maintained in this community. I am indebted to Mr. H. A. 

 Stark, late Principal, Dacca Training College, now Principal, 

 Armenian College, Calcutta, for valuable information on the point. 

 Among the Anglo-Indian community of Calcutta some families 

 claim descent from Mahommedan ladies of noble and even prince- 

 ly birth, who in the old days entered into alliances of a perfectly 

 regular kind from a Mahommedan point of view with Englishmen 

 of good birth. These families are, however, comparatively few. 

 At the other end of the social scale are the " Kintalis", 1 whose 

 origin is thus described by Mr. Stark in a lecture on " Calcutta in 

 Slavery Days ' ' read before the Calcutta Social Study Society on 

 March 13th, 1916. 



<f The liberated slaves [who, as Mr. Stark had previously 

 explained, were mainly Indians but included not a few Negros] 

 unbeknown to themselves that they had been doing what the 

 Manumitted Roman slaves had done centuries before, in gratitude 

 assumed the surnames of their late masters. Their descendants, 

 for the most part, survive in the "Kintal" population of the 

 city." 



If this were a full statement of the case, it might be doubted 

 whether the Kintalis have any real claim to be of mixed race, 

 unless there is some slight admixture of Negro blood ; but, as in 

 all cities, there is a tendency for certain individuals of the more 

 respectable classes to sink down to the slums and become a part 

 of the submerged population, which is represented in Calcutta, 

 so far as the Christian communities are concerned, by the Kintalis. 



Be this as it may, few or no Kintalis are among the persons 

 I measured, and probably none of very old family. So far as 

 possible, moreover, we have eliminated from the measurements 



I he nam.- is derived from the lodging-houses (Kintal) in which many of 

 these people live <»r lived. The word Kintal, however, now means little more 



than a slum inhabited by low-class Christians. 



