| cm. | |
| English | 170.8 |
| Eurasians | 166.6 |
| Muhammadans | 164.5 |
| Brāhmans | 162.5 |
| Pallis | 162.5 |
| Vellālas | 162.4 |
| Paraiyans | 161.9 |
The height, as might be expected, comes between that of the two parent stocks, European and Native, and had, in the cases examined, the wide range of 30.8 cm., the difference between a maximum of 183.8 cm. (6 feet) and a minimum of 153 cm. (5 feet).
The average length of the head was 18.6 cm. and the breadth 14.1 cm. And it is to be noted that, in 63 per cent. of the cases examined, the breadth exceeded 14 cm.:—
| Length. | Breadth. | Index. | |
| cm. | cm. | ||
| Brāhmans | 18.6 | 14.2 | 76.5 |
| Eurasians | 18.6 | 14.1 | 76 |
| Muhammadans | 18.7 | 13.9 | 76.1 |
| Vellālas | 18.6 | 13.8 | 74.1 |
| Paraiyans | 18.6 | 13.7 | 73.6 |
| Pallis | 18.6 | 13.6 | 73 |
The breadth of the head is very clearly brought out by the following analysis of forty subjects belonging to each of the above six classes, which shows at a glance the preponderance of heads exceeding 14 cm. in breadth in Eurasians, Brāhmans, and (to a less extent) in Muhammadans:—
| 12–13 | 13–14 | 14–15 | 15–16 | |
| cm. | cm. | cm. | cm. | |
| Eurasians | ... | 11 | 27 | 2 |
| Brāhmans | 1 | 9 | 27 | 3 |
| Muhammadans | 2 | 17 | 21 | ... |
| Vellālas | ... | 24 | 16 | ... |
| Paraiyans | ... | 27 | 13 | ... |
| Pallis | 3 | 30 | 7 | ... |
The head of a cross-breed, it has been said, generally takes after the father, and the breadth of the Eurasian head is a persisting result of European male influence. The effect of this influence is clearly demonstrated in the following cases, all the result of re-crossing between British men and Eurasian women:—
| Length. | Breadth. | |
| cm. | cm. | |
| 19 | 14.5 | |
| 18.4 | 14.2 | |
| 19.2 | 14.2 | |
| 20.2 | 14.6 | |
| 19 | 14.6 | |
| 19.4 | 14.3 | |
| —— | —— | |
| Average | 19.2 | 14.4 |
| Eurasian average | 18.6 | 14.1 |
The character of the nose is, as those who have studied ethnology in India will appreciate, a most important factor in the differentiation of race, tribe, and class, and in the determination of pedigree. “No one,” Mr. Risley writes,[10] “can have glanced at the literature of the subject, and in particular, at the Védic accounts of the Aryan advance, without being struck by the frequent references to the noses of the people whom the Aryans found in possession of the plains of India. So impressed were the Aryans with the shortcomings of their enemies’ noses that they often spoke of them as ‘the noseless ones,’ and their keen perception of the importance of this feature seems almost to anticipate the opinion of Dr. Collignon that the nasal index ranks higher as a distinctive character than the stature or even the cephalic index itself.”