Ethnicity and Religious Heritage

Author(s): T U Mehta
Publisher: T U Mehta

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Pre-Historical Beginning of Culture in India
The fundamental basis of Indian civilization on material side, is the gift of Austric speaking ProtoAustraloid people. Discuss.
To which family of languages do the Kola, Munda and non-Khmer species of India belong?
All these questions are inter-related and have reference to Proto-Australoid race which migrated to India. These people are believed to have come to India from the west after the Negritos. People of this race have spread over the vast area covered from Madagaskar, Vindhya mountains in India and Eastern Islands of Pacific Ocean. Before and after entering India they would have come in contact of various other races such as Negritos and Mongloids and Dravidians. Dr. Sunitikumar Chatterji has expressed a view in April, 1954 AD in his article on "Indo-Asian Culture" that Mongoloids had established themselves in India during Indus Valley Culture which shows the signs of Kirats, the name by which this race of mongoloids was known to the later Aryans.
Some scholars such as Shri Ratnaswami of Annamalay University in his book "India from the Dawn" and Dr. Nilkanth Shastri in his book "A History