Caste and Race in India c9.67

c9.67

The Mongoloid type: Here we have no comment to make except to draw attention to a mistake of Risley,³ repeated in *Man Past and Present*.⁴ Both the Kanets of Kulu and Lahoul are there classed as Mongoloid. A glance at the table for the Punjab will show that whereas the Kulu Kanets are very much akin to the Khatri of the Punjab, the Lahoul Kanets are quite distinct from them. The Kanets of Kulu are Indo-Aryans, while the Kanets of Lahoul are a mixture of the Kulu Kanets with the Mongoloid folk. Indeed, it was to elucidate the process of racial mixture between the Kanets of Kulu (who show marked points of contact with the Punjabis) and the Mongoloids that Holland, our authority on the subject, undertook a study of these two peoples.⁵