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" In typical specimens the stature is short or below mean ; the complexion very dark, approaching black ; hair plentiful, with an occasional tendency to curl ; eyes dark ; head long ; nose very broad, sometimes depressed at the root, but not so as to make... "
Ancient India - Page 40
edited by - 1922 - 736 pages
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A History of Assam

Edward Gait, Sir Edward Albert Gait - 1906 - 424 pages
...dark eyes, a fairly strong beard, a black or nearly black colour, thin legs, and a very broad nose, sometimes depressed at the root but not so as to make the face look flat. Whether or not this race was the one which originally introduced the Dravidian languages...
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Natives of Northern India

William Crooke - 1907 - 362 pages
...masses hanging down from the back of the head, and with a slight tendency to curl. The head is long, the nose very broad, sometimes depressed at the root, but not so as to make the face appear flat. Their appearance reminds us of Swift's description of the Yahoo, probably based on some Negroid type...
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Natives of northern India. (Native races of the Brit. empire).

William Crooke - 1907 - 364 pages
...masses hanging down from the back of the head, and with a slight tendency to curl. The head is long, the nose very broad, sometimes depressed at the root, but not so as to make the face appear flat. Their appearance reminds us of Swift's description of the Yahoo, probably based on some Negroid type...
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The Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 1

James Sutherland Cotton, Sir Richard Burn, Sir William Stevenson Meyer - 1909 - 608 pages
...a varying extent by the admixture of Aryan, Scythian, and Mongoloid elements. In typical specimens the stature is short or below mean ; the complexion...root, but not so as to make the face appear flat. This race, the most primitive of the Indian types, occupies the oldest geological formation in India, the...
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Castes and Tribes of Southern India, Volume 1

Edgar Thurston - 1909 - 536 pages
...a varying extent by the admixture of Aryan, Scythian, and Mongoloid elements. In typical specimens, the stature is short or below mean ; the complexion...root, but not so as to make the face appear flat." It is, it will be noted, observed by Risley that the head of the Scytho-Dravidian is broad, and that...
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A Geography of India: Physical, Political, and Commercial

George Patterson - 1909 - 190 pages
...Hyderabad, the Central Provinces, most of Central India and Chota Nagpur. Stature short, or below mean ; complexion very dark, approaching black ; hair plentiful,...to curl ; eyes dark ; head long ; nose very broad. 1o9. It will be seen that the Aryan clement is much less prominent than has hitherto been thought,...
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American Anthropologist, Volume 12

1910 - 860 pages
...a varying extent by the admixture of Aryan, Scythian, and Mongoloid elements. In typical specimens the stature is short or below mean ; the complexion...root, but not so as to make the face appear flat. ' ' These types are more exhaustively discussed in the ensuing pages of the first chapter. In the second...
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Antiquities of India: An Account of the History and Culture of Ancient Hindustan

Lionel David Barnett - 1914 - 406 pages
...a varying extent by the admixture of Aryan, Scythian, and Mongoloid elements. In typical specimens the stature is short or below mean ; the complexion...root, but not so as to make the face appear flat. This race, the most primitive of the Indian types, occupies the oldest geological formation in India, the...
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The Cambridge History of India: Ancient India, edited by E.J. Rapson

1922 - 852 pages
...in an order beginning from the south, instead of from the north-west as in the original scheme : f 1. The Dravidian type in the larger section of the...to make the face appear flat' ) This was assumed by Risley to be ' the original type of the population of India, now modified to a varying extent by the...
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THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF INDIA

E.J. RAPSON - 1922 - 842 pages
...of the peninsula which lies to the south of the United Provinces and east of about longitude 76° R "The stature is short or below mean ; the complexion...to make the face appear flat' This was assumed by Risley to be ' the original type of the population of India, now modified to a varying extent by the...
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