1 “Deccan, Hind, Dakhin, Dakhan; dakkina, the Prakr. form of Sskt. dakshina, ‘the south.’ The southern part of India, the Peninsula, and especially the table-land between the Eastern and Western Ghauts.” Yule and Burnell, Hobson-Jobson.
2 History of Creation.
3 Malay Archipelago, 1890.
4 See article Kādir.
5 Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula, 1906.
6 Globus, 1899.
7 Madras Museum Bull., II, 3, 1899.
8 Op. cit.
9 Yule and Burnell, Hobson-Jobson.
10 Mem. Asiat. Soc., Bengal, Miscellanea Ethnographica, 1, 1906.
11 Manual of the Geology of India, 2nd edition, 1893.
12 Anatomy of Vertebrated Animals, 1871.
13 See Annual Report, Archæological Survey of India, 1902–03.
14 Bull, Museum d’Histoire Naturelle, 1905.
15 Introduction to the Study of Mammals, living and extinct, 1891.
16 Anthropology. Translation, 1894.
17 I have only seen one individual with woolly hair in Southern India, and he was of mixed Tamil and African parentage.
18 See article Maravan.
19 Op. cit.
20 Ethnology, 1896.
21 Proc. R. Soc. N. S. Wales, XXIII, part III.
22 “It is evident that, during much of the tertiary period, Ceylon and South India were bounded on the north by a considerable extent of sea, and probably formed part of an extensive southern continent or great island. The very numerous and remarkable cases of affinity with Malaya require, however, some closer approximation to these islands, which probably occurred at a later period.” Wallace. Geographical Distribution of Animals, 1876.
23 See Breeks, Primitive Tribes and Monuments of the Nilgiris; Phillips, Tumuli of the Salem district; Rea, Prehistoric Burial Places in Southern India; R. Bruce Foote, Catalogues of the Prehistoric Antiquities in the Madras Museum, etc.
24 Contributions to the Craniology of the People of the Empire of India, Part II. The aborigines of Chūta Nāgpur, and of the Central Provinces, the People of Orissa, Veddahs and Negritos, 1900.
25 Other cranial characters are compared by Sir William Turner, for which I would refer the reader to the original article.
26 The People of India, 1908.
27 Contemporary Science Series.
28 Madras Museum Bull., II, 3, 1899.
29 The cephalic indices of various Brāhman classes in the Bombay Presidency, supplied by Sir H. Risley, are as follows:—Dēsastha, 76.9; Kokanasth, 77.3; Sheni or Saraswat, 79; Nagar, 79.7.
30 Measured by Mr. F. Fawcett.
31 The Pattar Brāhmans are Tamil Brāhmans, settled in Malabar.
32 According to the Brāhman chronology, Mayūra Varma reigned from 455 to 445 B.C., but his probable date was about 750 A.D. See Fleet, Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency, 1882–86.
33 Histoire générale des Races Humaines, 1889.
34 Les Nègres d’Asie, et la race Nègre en général. Revue Scientifique, VI July, 1906.
35 Tribes and Castes of Bengal, 1891.
36 Linguistic Survey of India, IV, 1906.
37 Manual of the South Canara district.
38 The Todas, 1906.
39 Madras Journ., Lit. and Sci., V., 1837.
40 Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Languages. 2nd Ed., 1875.
41 Outlines of the Toda Grammar appended to Marshall’s Phrenologist among the Todas.
42 Madras Census Report, 1901.