Neydal, the coasts of the Mediterranean sea, and the Indian and the Altantic Oceans, and the Pƒlai, the great desert of Sahara and its continuation in Arabia, Persia, and Mangolia. Did the passage from stage to stage of civilization first occur in the restricted region to region of South India and thence spread to the vaster tracts beyond or vice versa? The problem is almost insoluble at present. But it may be pointed out that the migration population from region and the consequent development of higher forms of culture is more likely to have taken place in a restricted portion of the earth's surface where such migration is easy, than in tracts of immense extent. It will help us to understand the ancient history of man if we imagine that nature's laboratory was, and her first experiment in human culture with the geographic forces available to her were conducted in, Dak™i–ƒpalha, India south of the Vindhyas and not in the great physiographic divisions of Eurasia and Africa. It is more likely that these different cultures of ancient times sent out offshoots to appropriate regions outside India, so that nature might reproduce on a large scale what she had succeeded in achieving on a smaller scale in India, than that she produced these cultures on a magnificent scale outside India, and then squeezed minified copies of each stage of civilization into Southern India, so as to make it a complete authropological museum.”¹

      “The Dravida man (Homo Dravida) seems to be directly allied to the Austral Negro. At present this primaeval specie is only represented by the Deccan tribes in the southern part of Hindostan, and by the neighbouring inhabitants of the mountains on the north-east of Ceylon. But in earlier times this race seems to have occupied the whole of Hindostan, and to have spread even further. It shows, on the one hand, trails of relationship to the Australians and Malayas; on the other, to the Mongols and Mediterranese. Their skin is either of a light or dark brown colour; in some tribes, of a yellowish brown, in other, almost black brown. The hair of their heads, as in Mediterranese, is more or less curled, neither quite smooth, like that of the Euthycomi, nor actually woolly,