The natural history of the varieties of man / by Robert Gordon Latham.

Date:
1850
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Credit: The natural history of the varieties of man / by Robert Gordon Latham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Fig. ]9. Fig. 20. Fig. 21. Mongolklae, I must here re- mark that the position of the ludo-Gangetic portion of it as TamuHan by no means stands or falls with the relation of its languages to the Sanskrit; since, even if an undeniably Sanskrit origin were proved for them, the evidence of physical form would still justify the in- quirer in asking whether they might not still be Ta- mulians whose language had been replaced by an im- ported one. * * * * The term quasi-Pulinda now finds an explanation. The key to half the com- plexities of the ethnology of Hindostan lies in the fact of the Brahminical portion of the population being an invading one, whilst the degree to which it altered the physical and moral cha- racter of those who were invaded, has a great range of variation, from a general change to an inappreciable modification. Now—where the invaded