History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c10.23

v1.c10.23

"It seems difficult to imagine what differring condition could have obtained during the savage infancy of our race in Burma, greater than that which existed between India and Europe ; yet directly we cross from India, properly so called, to the country lying to the eastward of the Bay of Bengal, we find stone implements not less abundant than elsewhere ; but of an entirely different type. We no longer find the familiar Indo-European type, either Palæolithic or Neolithic, but one seemingly autochthonous to the Malayan countries, and both in size, shape, and design displaying considerable divergence from any of the ordinary types of weapons found elsewhere.