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Rh India are Aryan in their ring and there were free marital relations between them and the Aryan dynasties of North India.

The attitude of Caldwell towards the problem of the affiliation of the Dravidian languages is puzzling to a degree. He appears to bave made up his mind with regard to the Sythian theory, and although he is fair enough to take notice of Indo-European affinities, he would brush them aside and hunt after the Scythian languages for light and would fain make use of such far-fetched scraps of analogies as he would get at. There is not a detail discussed in his Grammar to which he cannot find an analogy in the Indo-European tongues, and yet he cannot bring his mind to acknowlegeacknowledge [sic] it. And yet from very early times the writers of Dravidian Grammar have perceived some sort of connection between Sanskrit and the Southern Indian languages and have called