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The Calcutta Review July 1952

1952

If the shape of the head of these two groups of 4gvedic Aryans was different how is it possible to suggest from the preponderance of !ong heads in the Middle countries that the Aryans of the Midlard were long-h -aded? [...] The presence of a second broad long-heade.1 among the Indus people and affiliated to the Kaffirs and other Hindukush tribes by Guha in addition to the discovery of non-Mongoloid Alpine skulls at Mohenjo Daro and Harappa affiliated to the Irano-Pamirian type should make it possible for us to approach the problem of identity of the Vedic Aryans from another point of view. [...] If this view is accepted as an attempt at rational solution of the problem of the presence of an Aryan-speaking population which is held to be autochthonous to the area in the Patnirs and territories west and east (Zungaria is held to have been a centre of leucodermic expansion and the Tarim basin bad an Aryan type of population before and in the early centuries of the Christian era) one may raise [...] He suggests that that the presence of brachycephaly in the Punjab which biometric analysis of Risley's data reveals and of the same element in the upland Valleys of the Eastern Punjab and in the Gangetic valle:.s of the U. P. as pointed out in the Census Report of 1931. [...] which are regarded by me as the behavioural manifestations of his mental process's*: Without entering into the question whether knowledge of the other man's mind is inferential in the strict sense of the term we can assert that this knowledge is composed of two factors; knowledge of certain physical facts and the knowledge of mind proper; and the latter will not be possible without the former.
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Pages
80
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vi unknown view
Indus People and Indus Religion Indus People (III)
1-15 Nanimiadhab Chaudhuri view
Thought and Reality in Absolute Idealism
16-26 Kalyanchandra Gupta view
Education in Germany with Special Reference to Scientific Training
27-31 H.G. Biswas view
Late
32-34 J.K. Chakrovarti view
One-Act Play in Hindi—a Study in Technique
35-50 Amarnath Gupta view
A Socio-Psychiatric Study of Early Indications of Mental Disorders
51-54 P.N. Choubey view
Round the World
55-63 unknown view
Reviews and Notices of Books
64-66 unknown view
Ourselves
67-68 unknown view
Official Notifications University of Calcutta
69-74 unknown view

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