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Then, the second section takes up the question whether there is any pure and real Aryan element in the present population of India and concludeds that no such element can be said to exist so as to be easily detected in it, although a type approaching the Aryan is traced all along the river Indus, in Kashmir and in Rajputana. The fact, however, seems to be the Aryan branch of people who migrated from Bactria into India driven, of course, by scarcity of food and change of climate, could not have been so numerous as some orientalists suppose but must have been a few thousands only as shown by Ragozin2 and even these few merged in course of time in the vast ocean of the Tamilian people to a degree that their physical and mental characteristics become in later ages quite indistinguishable from the latter. Therefore it has been shown in this section that the existence of a separate Aryan race in India is a mere fiction and nothing more.
The third section enters into a discussion of the colour and physical features which the Tamilians possess in common with the other Indian people. As has been shown by Dr. Caldwell, colour is not a safe guide in judging of the racial characteristics of the Tamils as well as all other Indian people. Even among those who are generally black, there are great variations in colour ranging from pitch black to a bright pale black. The labouring classes who work under scorching solar rays become black or dimly brown even if they were born of pure yellow colour; where as the middle classes and the rich who carry on their business within doors are of either bright yellow tint or of rich brown, even here one may notice great and fine gradations. In the same way form and shape, size and height, differ widely not only among the Tamils but even among all other classes of the Indian people. With all such differences there might be seen at a glance perceptible general characteristic running through them all which marks of the Tamils from all other people who have come into India at different periods of time and settled. Many an acute student of ethnic studies has noted in the eyes and features of the Tamils a certain brightness and alterness due to a suffusion of superior intelligence which is naturally denied to others.
