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THE remnants of the Negrito race in the aboriginal population of South India were first discovered by Dr. B. S. Guha and reported in NATURE1. In an extensive survey of the Perambiculam Hills within the Cochin State and the adjoining Anaimallais Hills of the Coimbatore district he found, in all, 16 individuals with spirally curved hair of whom one was a Pulayan, one a Mlser and the rest were Kadars. The hair of these people was of a frizzly type equivalent to No. g of Martin's scheme2, with the exception of two individuals whose hair was of the woolly type and more like No. h of the same scheme. In a recent survey of the Hill People of the Rajmahal Hills of Santal Parganas, I came across a boy of about fourteen years of age in a place called Lilkotidhor (Rajmahal subdivision) belonging to the Bgdi group with short spirals of a distinctly woolly type (No. h) (Fig. 1). He was very short (1,354 mm.). The head was round and short, the maximum length and breadth being 166 mm. and 142 mm. respectively, and the proportions between the two was 85.54. The nose was flat and broad and the face was round and short. The lips, however, were moderate and no prognathism was noticed. The skin colour was black, corresponding to No. 33 of von Luschan scale.
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NATURE, 121, 793 (May 19, 1928); and 123, 942 (June 22, 1929).
” Lehrbuch”, Second Ed., 1, 213.
” Census of India”, 1, Pt. iii, p. li, 1935.
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SARKAR, S. Negrito Racial Strain in India. Nature 137, 1035 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1371035a0
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