The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c15.168
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c15.168
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It is the Pre-Dravidian aborigines, and not the later and more cultured Dravidians, who must be regarded as the primitive existing race.... These Pre-Dravidians...are differentiated from the Dravidian classes by their short stature and broad (platyrhine) noses. There is strong ground for the belief that the Pre-Dravidians are ethnically related to the Veddas of Ceylon, the Toalas of the Celebes, the Batin of Sumatra, and possibly the Australians. (*The Madras Presidency*, pp. 124–5.)