Most Ancient Aryan Society

Author(s): Ram Chandra Jain
Publisher: Institute of Bharatalogical Research Sriganganagar Rajasthan

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come from the Mediterranean region. These peasant-farming communities had as their neighbour the remarkable Urban civilization of the Punjab-Sind regions watered by the Saraswati system. They must have belonged to the Mediterranean racial stock; of course, carrying with them the ethnic influences of the proto-Austroloids of the midregions due to social inter-mixtures. Thus it becomes farily certain that the people who migrated to West Asia from Bhārata before the advent of the West Asian peasant-potters belong to the pure proto-Austroloid stock.
It is wrong to assume that the skulls excavated at Mohenjodaro show distinct Mediterranean or proto-Austroloid 3. Ethnic features. D. N. Majumdar maintains that
Evidence 'most of the skulls out of the skulls belonging to Mohenjodaro) can be traced to a mixture between these racial types, the proto-Austroloid and the Mediterranean. The proto-Austroloid is normally dolichocephalic,' and concludes, “That the earliest inhabitants of India were the protoÀustroloids who had assimilated or had been assimilated by an early Mediterranean stock, and here and there with a brachycephalic elements.”}] The great ethnologist, Hutten, suggests that the Aryans had their conflicts with the tribes of proto-Austroloid affinities.1a It appears that the mediterranean and the proto-Austroloid stocks commingled together for centuries and exchanged mutual influences. The people of Asia Minor and the adjoining regions preserved their predominantly Mediterranean features and so did the people of Bhārata their predominating proto-Austroloid features.
The Indus script has not so far been satisfactorily deciphered. Father Heras has read Cen-temiz or old Tamil Proto-Brahmi of Circa 500 A. D. in the Indus script but Script
his reading lacks all sound philological methods. This script, called Sindh-Punjab script by S. K
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