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JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 
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Part I—HISTORY, LITERATURE, &e. 
No. I.—1879. 
Prehistoric Remains in Central India.—By J. H. Rivert-Caryac, Esq., 
Op ieehey Ee SieAce MM. Re AS: 5, CoC. 
At a meeting of the Society held in 1874, some iron implements dug 
out of the barrows of the Nagpore district of the Central Provinces were 
exhibited by me, and a brief notice was then given of those grave-mounds 
and their contents. I have long intended preparing for the Society the 
detailed description together with sketches of these interesting remains 
then promised. But various circumstances have delayed the working up 
of the notes taken on the spot and the copying of the sketches, and I am 
- only now able to offer them to the Society. 
Last year when in France, I paid a visit to the Museum at St. Germain- 
en-Laye, celebrated for its prehistoric collection, and there the resemblance 
between the remains, dug out of tumuli in Brittany and other parts of France, 
and the contents of the Nagpore barrows presented itself in the most striking 
manner. M. Bertrand the Director of the Museum and President of the 
Society of Antiquaries of France, to whom the subject was mentioned 
by me, strongly urged the preparation of a detailed account of the Indian 
grave-mounds and their contents, together with sketches, so as to admit 
of further comparison between the Indian and European types. 
The subject is well known to the Society, but it is hoped that the fol- 
lowing details may not be without interest, and that they may assist in 
directing further attention to the extraordinary resemblance between the 
_ Prehistoric Remains of India and of Europe. 
Barrows or grave-mounds, surrounded by circles of stones, are found 
in several districts of the Nagpore province. They have been examined 
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