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Their numbers were but small when compared with the colored multitudes about them. They came slowly from their homeland in the northwest where. in spite of later mixtures with blacks and yellows. we yet find Afghans and Persians who are fundamentally Aryan. While all the darker strains of India may not be traced to the influence of the blood of the Asiatic branch of the Negro race. which at an early time was widely distributed on the Asiatic mainland and which now has many representatives in the islands south of the continent. yet the blood of the Negro is evident in certain of the races of India. Speaking of the race types of India. Madison Grant says: "The Aryanized Afghan and Hindu of northern India speak languages derived from old Sanskrit and are closely related to the Mediterranean race. Aside from common dolichocephaly. these peoples are entirely distinct from the Dravidians of south India. whose speech is agglutinative and who show strong evidence of profound mixture with the ancient Negrito substratum of southern Asia. Everywhere throughout the Asiatic portion of its range the Mediterranean race overlies an even more ancient negroid race. These negroids still have representatives among the preDravidians of India. the Veddabs of Ceylon. the Sakal of the Malay Peninsula. and the natives of the Andaman Islands." The all but complete disappearance of the blood of the white civilizers of India is well expressed by the same authority. who says: "The Hindu today speaks a very ancient form of the Aryan language. but there remains not one recognizable trace of the white conquerors who poured in through the passage of the northwest. The boast of the modern Indian that he is of the same race as his English ruler is entirely without basis in fact. and the little swarthy native lives among the monuments of a departed grandeur. professing the religion and speaking the tongue of his longforgotten Nordic conquerors without the slightest claim to blood kinship.