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The Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay New Series

1949

But I have myself met with curious fragments of that pricipal work and in the Veda itself I found with astonishment an entire Upanishad on the internal parts of the human body with the enumeration of the nerves veins and arteries a description of the heart spleen and liver and various disquisitions of the formtion and growth of the foetus. [...] I was surprised to read in the memoirs of an Englishman James Forbes who was in the service of the East India Compavaillf India in the latter half of the 18th century the following :—" The fact stated in the translation of a written memorandum from the Nawab Mirza"8 THE 101INAL OF THE. [...] As against the dwellers of the plains the culture breeders of the river banks and the traders and industrialists of the coast line and the cities the aborigines live on the hills forest and rugged cunttyside of India. [...] Broadly26 THE JOURNAL OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY speaking they live on a long and broad belt of land starting from the Aravali Hills in the West proceeding into the Vindhya and Satpura Hills and portions of Western Ghats the Central Provinces and what has been known as the forest of the Dangs Portion of the Eastern Ghats and then in Bihar Orissa Bengal and Assam meeting the large primitiv [...] It is on the one hand the product of the primitive mind struggling to know a complex existence; on the other hand it is the product of the spiritual efforts of some of the greatest prophets and philosophers born in this world to guide man on the path of morality and righeous conduct.
anthropology archaeology
Pages
77
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120155
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-iii R. K. Prabhu view
Cultural Contact Between India and the Other World
1-12 V. M. Kaikini view
World Creation Myth and Bilateral Organization among Kadar of Cochin
13-23 U. R. Ehrenfels view
The Problem of Aborigines
24-35 B. H. Mehta view
Significance of Personal Names for the Student of Folk Culture
36-54 Rustam Masani view
The Progress of Education in the Konkan Adiwasis and Its Effect on Them
55-66 D. N. Wandrekar view
Anthropological Society of Bombay Annual Report 1948
67-70 R. K. Prabhu view
Review
71-72 R. K. Prabhu view
Backmatter
i-ii R. K. Prabhu view

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