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ENGLISH PREFACE TO THE TAMILIAN CREED
"Wilfred Scawen Blunt says that Huxley had long suspected a common origin of the Egyptians and the Dravidians of India, perhaps a long belt of brown-skinned men from India to Spain in very early days.”
"This ‘belt' of Huxley's, of dark-white and brown-skinned men, this race of brunet-brown-folk, spread even farther than India; they reached to the shores of the Pacific, and they were everywhere the original possessors of the Neolithic culture and the beginners of what we call civilization. It is possible that these Brunet peoples are, so to speak the basic peoples of our modern world."-H.G. Wells in his 'Outline of History' p. 138.
What had been suspected by the genius of Prof. Huxley and accepted by Mr. H.G. Wells, has recently come off an undoubted fact established by the archaeological evidence which the excavations conducted at Harappa and Mohenjo-daro in the Punjab have afforded us. For Sir John Marshall, Director General of Archaeology in India, has conclusively shown in his epoch-making work “Mohenjo-daro and the Indus Civilisation” that the pre- Aryan people, the originators of the Indus Civilisation, could be none other than the forefathers of the Dravidian People who at present occupy Southern India and that their culture bears a close resemblance to the culture of the Sumerians and the Egyptians as the result of the commercial intercourse they had had with the latter five thousand years ago. In exposing the error into which some of the oriental scholars had fallen when they came to speak of the pre-Aryan inhabitants of India, Sir John Marshall observes:
