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Doms and the Brahuis, and others in the interior of the Dekhan, wecamw 
but admit that we meet here with a different race, which, by its physical and 
intellectual type, resembles closely the negro. The historical existence of 
this people we can trace in the Mahablifirata as well as in the history of 
I lerodotus, in bodi of w hich we find them mentioned in the north .and twrib* 
ivest of India, while the existence of the same dark race in the south u 
autlienticated, not only by Indian poems, bm also by Strabo. 
7’hcre is also some difference between the Brahminical inhabitants of the 
north and the south of India, the latter being rather short in their ststire 
and dark in their complexion, cot however so much as not to show still* 
both sides the noble stamp of the Caucasian race. 
But while on physiological pounds we should find no difficulty in adtnii* 
ting those two races as the inhabitants of India, we have still to account fcr 
the diflerence of language which exists between the north and south ofths 
peninsula. If the groat mass of the inhabitants of the Dekhan helonpn 
the Caucasian race, one would expect to find also amongst them a Ciiia- 
sian or Indo-Germunic language. Instead of this we find that the soutben 
languages are entirely and originally different from tlte Arian Isnpt^ 
apokcii in the north, and that they bear, so far as we may judge fromik 
latest researches, a resemblance to the dialects spoken by the savage tnbft 
like the Bhillas and Gondas, which we considered as having a CiuliiB 
origin. 
Bur although these facts may seem contradictory and perplexing, 
contradictions between the results of physiological and linguistical inquififl 
may be accounted for and reconciled by the aid of early tradiriun ai« 
history. ^ 
When the Arian tribes immigrated into the north of India, they csidc* 
a W'arrior-like people, vanquishing, destroying and subjecting the 
and despised inhabitants of those countries. We generally find that ithW 
late of the negro race, when brought into hostile contact witJi the 
race, to be either destroyed .nnd annihilated, or to fall into a state of si8»t^ 
and clegradatioii, from which, if at all, it recovers by the slow process« 
assimilation. This has been the case in the north of India. The 
part of Us former inhabitants have entirely vanished at the approach of i* 
nan civilization; some however submitted to the yoke of the conqj'ff^ 
aril of these have, after a long period of slavery, during which f . 
a op c the manners, religion and language of their superiors, ** 
new social and intellectual independence. The lower classes of the 
consist o ihosc aboriginal inhabiuints, and some of them continue *tul *? 
o t le present day in a state of the utmost degradation, living a^ 
in oresta or ns servants in villages. Some however who came into acw^ 
contact with their masters, by living as servants and workmen in the vrnn^ 
o owns, or in the houses of their employers, have intellectually aod ^ 
sically iindergoiie a complete regeneration, so that after three thousaml 
fanXs^in*ln^‘‘ ^ disting^^'* 
'Hie Arian conquerors ofindia did not however settle over the «hol^ 
tin. following first a southern and then a south-eastern 
w Western India untouched; and it is there 
Brih.r,;.. * *1 *^horiginal tribes, which, escaping the influence o 
ors firp afterwards of the Rajput and Mabomedan con^ 
couth tv*ntheir rude language and savage manners t c 
«uth type of their negro origin. North oflie tract of the Arian occup** 
