A History of Assam c7.s1.13

c7.s1.13

These considerations suggest that the Dravidians originally spoke languages of the “Dravidian” family, and that the Mundā languages were imported by Mongolian immigrants through Assam or Burma whose distinctive physical type became merged in that of the earlier Dravidian inhabitants. In this connexion it may be noted that the Mundā-speaking tribes used to erect monoliths in memory of their dead similar to those erected by the Khāsis, who are of unmistakable Mongolian race, and that traces of an apparently Mongolian physiognomy are occasionally to be seen amongst them.*