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. MEETING OP DIFFERENT CULTURES IN ANCIENT ASAM 15 Gujarat, the Kayastifas of Bengal and the Khos of Chitral represent the purest form of Alpino people. The Alpine Immigration into India took place during the third mill- lennium B.C. They were "brachycephals with leptorhine noses" and are believed to have had some mutation at least with the Avestie Aryana about the Tranion tableland if not with the common Nordic forefathers of both the Vedie and Avestic Aryans. One branch of them come to the western coast of India and must have passed through the Indus valley, as at least one Alpine skull has been discovered at Mahenjo Daro, the other branch to Eastern India laying their foundation in these places. So the Kimarüpf Brahmans of the Nidhanpur charter like the Nagar Brihmans of Guxerat must be the descendants of the Alpine prints, Long before the Alpines there came to India "a short statured dolicephalic strain with high cranial vault and medium lips", another race of people whom Hutton calls Mediterraneans, probably thinking, like R D. Banerj! (Pre-Historie and Hindu India), that they lived about the Mediterranean sea before this immigration, where they also must have had a mutation with the Indo-European Nordics. Guha also opines that the Mediterraneans originally belonged to the same stock as the Nordics, whose immigration into India is dated the second millen- mium B.C., but were bifurcated pretly long ago. He things that the Pode of Bengal, the Telegu Brlihumans, the Oriya Brahmans, the Kana. rese Brahmans, the Saraswat Brahmins, the Chippavan Brlimans and the Derastha Brahmans are descendants of Mediterraneans. And Hutton opines that though anthropometric measurements were not made here, Kalltás occupying a high position in Assamese society and usually passing for Aryans, may have really been descendants of the Mediterraneans. Mediteraneans, earlier styled a Dravidians, are thought to be responsible for the Indus valley civilization, whence they become either Identical or allied with the Haragans. But A. S. Altelar, identifies the Penis of the Rg Vedn, who were bitter enemies of the Aryans, with the Harappans (Address of the Gerieral President, Indian History Congress, 22nd Seaslon, pp. 8-94). Are we then to equate the Danis of the R Veda with the Mediterraneans? Hutton thinks that "the Alpines were not a warlike race and that peaceful penetration was their forte". So they may not be bought in to have any rival claim with the Medi. terrancans who are identified with the Penis of the Re Veds to be deadly focs of the Vedic Aryans. Similarly about the Kalites of Asam, Hutton identifies them with the Mediterraneans, and Kanak Barut connects them with Alpines or Vrätyas through Narakasur who was installed on the throne of Kima-