OF BHARATAVAR3A OR INDIA. 
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if the city of Gauda was not in existence when Ptolemy 
lived, it is evident that no Brahmans could have been 
called after it before his time. I merely call attention to 
this fact, though I object to the proposed derivation of the 
name Gauda-Brahman from the city of Gauda, whatever 
may have been the origin of the name of that town. 
On the name Kolarian. 
Before entering into any further particulars about the 
Gaudian group, it is necessary to make a few remarks on 
the name Kolarian. It has of late been repeatedly and 
authoritatively stated that India was in ancient times called 
Colaria, and that the Kols in Central India represent the real 
aborigines of India, to whom it is indebted for this name. 
To both these statements I demur, and though I admit the 
antiquity of the tribes which are now styled Kolanan, I 
would at once observe that the Kola and Koli, who are 
mentioned in the Epic and Pauranic Sanskrit literature, 
should not be confounded with the modern Kols.^* 
The Kolarian theory, if I may so call it, derives its main 
support from the writings of three eminent men, Colonel 
Wilford, Colonel Dalton, and Sir George Campbell, for whom 
I must needs have the greatest respect ; but while recog- 
nizing their merit, I trust to be able to show that in this 
matter they have erred in their eoQclusions and built up a 
theory on very slender foundations. The view they main- 
tain will be found presented in the following extracts. 
According to Colonel Dalton the word Kol " is one of 
*' the epithets of abuse applied by the Bramanical races to 
"the aborigines of the country who opposed their early 
" settlement, and it has adhered to the primitive inhabi- 
KSli, as it occurs, e.g., in KOlisaipaJ^. 
