Abstract
THIS book, we are told in the preface, was intended to provide “a monograph on the origin of the Bengali people,” a useful project which has been supported by the newly founded Varendra Research Society. But his “notes,” as the author modestly terms them, have developed into a series of essays on the religion, history, and ethnology of Ancient India. All that is provided as part of the original project is a short series of head measurements, published without commentary, which is intended to settle the question whether certain groups of Bengali Brahmans are, or are not, descendants of a few Brahmans imported from Kanauj. So far as we can judge from these scanty statistics the legend is without foundation; but the subject demands much more careful treatment before it can be finally settled.
The Indo-Aryan Races. A Study of the Origin of Indo-Aryan People and Institutions.
By Ramaprasad Chanda. Part i. Pp. xiii + 274. (Rajshahi: The Varendra Research Society, 1916.) Price Rs.6 8a.
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The Indo-Aryan Races A Study of the Origin of Indo-Aryan People and Institutions . Nature 98, 227 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/098227b0
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