History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c14.36

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The Dravidian people can be traced in a long unbroken line from Crete and Lycia to the Indus Valley and the south of India, at least culturally. It would not be strange at all to find that the Chalcolithic civilisation of these people extended as far as the Easter Islands and perhaps to Peru and Mexico. In my opinion the people of Kalinga, who have been proved to be the pioneer colonists of India, Indonesia and Oceania, are probably the very same people whom the Modern barbarians of the pacific and Indian Oceans regard with awe and wonder as people from the sky who civilized them and taught them the rudiments of culture.