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nated by the generic name of Daspu or Dasa. The greater part of 

 them, as the conquerors penetrated further into the valley of 

 the Ganges, were forced back on both sides, to the mountains 

 northward into the Himalaya, and southward into the Vindhya ; 

 those who remained behind were adopted as Sudras, thus 

 becoming a part of the Aryan organization. Hence nothing 

 stands in the way of the assumption that the mountaineers in 

 general belong to the aboriginal tribes. But neither does 

 anything compel us to consider all these tribes of the Dasyu 

 as homophylic [of one race.] M. Rousselet speaks most positively 

 of an immigration of Thibetan tribes of the yellow race from 

 the east, and another of Turanians from the west, before 

 the Aryan invasion ; but he assumes, as anterior to both, a 

 population of Negritoes, To the admixture of the latter with 

 yellow tribes he first of all ascribes the origin of the Proto-,' 

 Dravidians, (counting among these the Malars, the Konds, and 

 perhaps the Gounds ); and only when fresh troops of invaders had 

 again mixed with the Proto-Dra vidians, arose, in his opinion, the 

 Dravidas or Tamils. They brought the snake worship (Nagas) 

 with them. On the other hand, from the immigration of the 

 Turanians arose in the plains the Yats ; in the mountains the 

 Bhils, Minas, and M hairs."] He regards as the last remains of 

 the primitive black population scattered remnants of a small 

 black people upon the high plateaus of the Amarkantak, who 

 became known under the name of Djanc/als, Puttnas, and 

 Yuangas (Dschuangs) * If I have many doubts about admit- 

 ting the distinctions of M. Rousselet, especially with regard to 

 the assumption of a veritable Negrito race as the aboriginal 

 race of India, I yet in nowise oppose the idea that the tribes of 

 black-skins which the Aryans found established in the valley of 

 the Ganges were mixed. How much Mongolian, Turanian or 

 Negrito blood flowed in their veins must remain for the present 

 undecided. But it is certainly not impossible that a part only 

 of the Dasuya were Dravidians, and that even before the 

 Proto- Dravidas of M, Rousselet, Pre-Dravidian tribes inhabited 

 the land, Neither the Mongols nor the Turanians satisfactorily 



* Col. Dalton states that these belong to the Kolars ; and his desrip- 

 tion of these contains quite as many Mongolian as Negretian charac- 



f,eristics. 



