A veritable ethnological museum!
Possibly, the half-ape skeleton of the recently discovered Sumatra link will be found on search here, too.
The Dolmens are not wanting. Flint implements can be dug out almost anywhere. The lake-dwellers -- at least the river-dwellers -- must have been abundant at one time.
The cave-men and leaf-wearers still persist. The primitive hunters living in forests are in evidence in various parts of the country.
Then there are the more historical varieties -- the Negrito-kolarian, the Dravidian, and the Aryan. To these have been added from time to time dashes of nearly all the known races, and a great many yet unknown -- various breeds of Mongoloids, Mongols, Tartars, and the so-called Aryans of the philologists.
Well, here are the Persian, the Greek, the Yunchi, the Hun, the Chin, the Scythian, and many more, melted and fused, the Jews, Parsees, Arabs, Mongols, down to the descendants of the Vikings and the lords of the German forests, yet undigested -- an ocean of humanity, composed of these race-waves
seething, boiling, struggling, constantly changing form, rising to the surface, and spreading, and swallowing little ones, again subsiding -- this is the history of India.
- Swami Vivekananda,
from the article ‘Aryans and Tamilians’
Possibly, the half-ape skeleton of the recently discovered Sumatra link will be found on search here, too.
The Dolmens are not wanting. Flint implements can be dug out almost anywhere. The lake-dwellers -- at least the river-dwellers -- must have been abundant at one time.
The cave-men and leaf-wearers still persist. The primitive hunters living in forests are in evidence in various parts of the country.
Then there are the more historical varieties -- the Negrito-kolarian, the Dravidian, and the Aryan. To these have been added from time to time dashes of nearly all the known races, and a great many yet unknown -- various breeds of Mongoloids, Mongols, Tartars, and the so-called Aryans of the philologists.
Well, here are the Persian, the Greek, the Yunchi, the Hun, the Chin, the Scythian, and many more, melted and fused, the Jews, Parsees, Arabs, Mongols, down to the descendants of the Vikings and the lords of the German forests, yet undigested -- an ocean of humanity, composed of these race-waves
seething, boiling, struggling, constantly changing form, rising to the surface, and spreading, and swallowing little ones, again subsiding -- this is the history of India.
- Swami Vivekananda,
from the article ‘Aryans and Tamilians’
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