A History of South India from Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar c8.3

c8.3

THE people of South India cannot be said to have any well-marked racial characteristics. They are ‘a miscellany of differing physical types’, most clearly the product of a mixture from immemorial antiquity of many different strains, and modern attempts to distinguish these strains are matters of opinion based on the appraisal of obscure and intricate evidence along several lines. The subject-matter of this chapter affords therefore little scope for confident assertions of a categorical nature.