Caste and Race in India c9.12

c9.12

It will be observed that for the Punjab and Gujarat we have very meagre data: for Sindh proper we have none. For Madras, Mr. E. Thurston¹ has given us a long list of averages but very few individual measurements. Hence in the case of Dravidian India we can compare only two castes, data for which are taken from the paper of Sir Thomas Holland. Though we accept Thurston's averages for the general ethnology of India, yet we must point out that they are very crude in so far as the absolute measurements seem to have been recorded in centimetres.² For more scientific conclusions about Dravidian India we require fresh measurements taken on typical Dravidian castes.