Science and Culture - A Monthly Journal Devoted to Natural & Cultural Sciences August 1936

The Laboratory is studying this problem on behalf of the Air Ministry with particular attetion to the elimination of the errors in the apparent direction of a transmitter arising from the effects of waves reflected from the upper atmosphere. [...] Regarding the present-day Indian castes by refering to a biometric analysis' made by the writer of this paper of the data of some of the castes from the Punjab to Bengal furnished by Risley it is to bo found that if in the Punjab the Jat-Sikhs have dolchoid-leptorrhin element in majority the Khatris have the dolichoimesorrhin element in majority. [...] Affinities are also shan by the Nair of Malabar and the Pathan of N. W. India with the Bengali Brahman and by the Nagar Brahman the Tadjik the Kathi and the Bania Jain with the Bengali Kayastha.....'.. [...] But a question may be asked here : As the ancient Hindu scriptures decribed the four Varnas of the four-fold society of the Hindus then how should racially the men of the remining colours be identifitd ? If the Brahman was the white Aryan and ilk Sudra the black aborigine 'then what about the 4ia1 identities the red Kshatriya and the yellow Vaisya ?. In that case will the four colours of [...] In the United Provinces the Bhuihar 75 the Brahman 75 the Kayastha 57 the Chatri 78 the Khatri 78 the Kurmi 79 the Bania 80.