Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . The derivation of these fromthe Mongoloid stem has _ , . 0 , Distribution already been noticed in a and tribes of the ,i , x Old Dravidians. former chapter. In gener-al, the peoples of this stock are found inthe southern part of the peninsula, butbranches of the family extend as farnorth as Chuta-Nagpur. They are,doubtless, the oldest race in India. Mostof the Dravidian tribes are associatedin tolerably compact se
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . The derivation of these fromthe Mongoloid stem has _ , . 0 , Distribution already been noticed in a and tribes of the ,i , x Old Dravidians. former chapter. In gener-al, the peoples of this stock are found inthe southern part of the peninsula, butbranches of the family extend as farnorth as Chuta-Nagpur. They are,doubtless, the oldest race in India. Mostof the Dravidian tribes are associatedin tolerably compact settlements, but insome parts of the country, especially to-ward the north, they are sparsely scat-tered among the other races. Twelvedistinct Dravidian languages have beenexamined and classified. These are theTamil dialect, the Malayalim, the Telugu, THE INDICANS.—RACE DIVISIONS. G83 the Kanarese, the Tula, the Kudugu,the Toda, the Kota, the Gond, theKhond, the Uraon, and the of these tongues has its peculiar with the Bhils of Bombay on the west,and extending; to the Sontals of Bengalin the east. The race characteristics ofthese peoples are thought by some eth-. OLD DRAVIDIAN TYPES—KHOND CHIEFTAINS. vocabulary and grammatical structure,all different by a wide departure fromthe other languages of India. 2. The Hill Tribes of Central India.—These are the upland races, beginning nographers to be in affinity with theNegroid family of man- ° J Kolarians, or kind, but this is, perhaps, hm populations „,, ,., ,.. of the interior. incorrect. 1 hey, like the Dravidians, are of Mongolian extraction, 684 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. and belong to an original stock derivedfrom the same stem with the Dravidiansthemselves. All these hill tribes are as-sociated together by a linguistic classifi-cation, and are known by the name ofKolarians. They appear to have entered and the Dravidians is the difference a more ancient and a less ancient Stock Of people migrating Dif
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