Kâyasth | 78·2|| | || | ||Tanti | 76·2||Brâhman | 73·0 Brâhman | 78·7|| | || | ||Birhor | 76·6||Bhuînhâr | 73·3 | || | || | || | ||Kurmi | 73·3 | || | || | || | ||Bhar | 73·5 | || | || | || | ||Thâru | 73·9 | || | || | || | ||Musahar | 74·1 | || | || | || | ||Kanjar | 74·7 | || | || | || | ||Dom | 74·8 ==============+=======++===================+=======++==============+=======++==============+=======++==============+======= “In the above table the great cephalic similarity between the Kâyasth and the Chandâl in Bengal, between the Brâhman and the Bind in Bihâr, and between the Bâbhan and the Bhar in the North-Western Provinces, seems to prove beyond question how very similar must have been the racial origin of all. In fact the medium or mesaticephalic head is the most common in the plains of Bengal and Bihâr, being the result of interbreeding between the round-headed Mongol and the long-headed Drâvir, the Aryan having little to do with the physiognomy of their offspring, except in Upper India. “Mr. Risley’s comment on these statistics is as follows:— ‘All along the Eastern and Northern frontier of Bengal we meet with a fringe of compact tribes of the short-headed or brachycephalic type, who are beyond question Mongolian. Starting from this area, and travelling up the plains of India north-westward towards the frontier of the Panjab, we observe a gradual but steady increase of the dolichocephalic type of head, which Herr Penka claims as one of the chief characteristics of the original Aryans. Bengal itself is mostly mesaticephalic, and dolichocephaly only appears in some of the Dravidian tribes. In Bihâr dolichocephalic averages are more numerous; in Oudh and the North-Western Provinces this type is universal, and it reaches its maximum in the Panjab. Assuming that Herr Penka has correctly determined the original Aryan type to be dolichocephalic, and that the theory of caste propounded above is the true one, these are just the results which might be looked for. According to the French anthropologists, the shape of the head is the most persistent of race characters, and the one which offers the greatest resistance to the levelling influence of crossing.