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² Cf. the divergent views of Myres, *CAH.* i. chap. i; Haddon, *The Races of Man* (new ed., 1924). It is natural to regard the Dravidians as ultimately not essentially different from the pre-Dravidians or even the Negritos, but all these views rest on insufficient grounds. Giuffrida-Ruggeri adopts the idea of the Aryan ‘Midland’, as excluding the Punjab and Rajputana with the United Provinces, but this view is not in harmony with any ancient authority on the Midland. Chanda (*The Indo-Aryan Races*, i. 74 ff.) regards the men of the Alpine race as Tocharians, a branch of the Indo-Europeans of *centum* speech, and ascribes to their influence the difference between ‘Outer’ and ‘Inner’ languages. But we have no proof of the early existence of these Tocharians in East Turkestan, and the ‘Outer’ languages show no *centum* features. His view of Yadus, Turvaças, &c., as immigrants—partially Semitized—from Mesopotamia, is quite implausible, as is his denial of the aboriginal character of the Çūdras; though that class may, of course, have included Aryan slaves, this is implausible on the evidence (Macdonell and Keith, *Vedic Index*, ii. 380 ff.). Cf. *JRAS.* 1917, pp. 167 ff.