History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c10.6

v1.c10.6

In a paper read before the Irish Academy Ball pointed out the striking similarity which exists between the Bengal and Orissa forms and those from the Madras Presidency, and concluded by showing that there is a resemblance, both in the form of the palæolithic implements from Bengal and Madras, and their material. His legitimate conclusion was that there is a definite connection between the peoples who manufactured these implements in Orissa and Madras. In the case of the Orissa specimens, they were picked up at places far away from their nearest possible sources of origin. Two of the Orissa specimens are in the Indian Museum at Calcutta:—