Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East (Vol. I: Champa; Vol. II: Suvarnadvipa) v2.c13.81

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It may be noted, however, that conclusion of an almost opposite character has been arrived at by certain scholars. Krom, for example, believes that the Indo-nesians had colonised India in primitive times, and the later Aryan colonisation of the Far East was merely the reverse of that process.² This is in flagrant contradiction to the views of Schmidt and Lévi, and seems to be based mainly on the theory of Mr. J. Hornell. In his Memoir on “the Origins and Ethnological significance of the Indian Boat Designs” Mr. Hornell “admits a strong Polynesian influence on the Pre-Dravidian population of the southern coast of India. He thinks that a wave of Malayan immigration must have arrived later, after the entrance of the Dravidians on the scene, and it was a Malayan people who brought from the Malay Archipelago the cultivation of the Coco-palm.” (p. XVII)