[[cxiii]]

NAME OF CASTE OR TRIBE—SAYYID.

Number. Height of Vertex. Height of Trunk. Span. Left Foot. Left Middle Finger. Right Ear Height. Round Head. Inion to Glabella. Tragus to Tragus. Vertex to Chin. Antero­posterior Diameter. Maximum Transverse Diameter. Minimum Frontal Diameter. Bizygomatic Diameter. Cephalic Index. General Index. Frontal Index.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
1 1,724 846 1,775 269 110 64 520 333 338 216 185 134 108 130 72·4 166 80·6
2 1,602 797 1,607 246 102 58 520 328 330 200 183 139 114 129 75·9 155 82·0
3 1,691 851 1,734 254 102 56 530 356 343 218 189 138 125 138 73·0 158 90·6
4 1,645 889 1,587 241 107 66 520 330 343 221 185 133 117 135 71·8 164 87·9
5 1,582 795 1,633 249 102 64 513 317 330 188 182 132 105 127 72·5 148 79·5
6 1,709 858 1,795 262 110 71 538 358 360 218 195 140 109 130 71·8 168 77·9
7 1,700 890 1,710 252 112 59 537 344 347 203 181 150 105 141 82·8 144 70·0
8 1,645 810 1,711 250 113 57 545 323 336 210 181 140 101 133 77·3 158 72·1
9 1,727 892 1,724 250 106 67 555 360 359 228 192 140 103 136 72·8 168 73·6[[cxiv]]
10 1,683 895 1,683 240 110 60 539 358 350 204 182 147 99 130 80·8 157 67·4
11 1,803 905 1,852 266 130 65 530 338 339 191 190 133 104 138 70·0 138 78·1
12 1,612 825 1,576 234 104 55 520 330 330 193 182 132 93 122 72·5 158 70·5
13 1,700 870 1,762 256 107 57 515 337 335 205 178 135 104 135 75·8 152 77·4
14 1,620 820 1,724 241 100 57 534 325 350 210 183 138 107 127 75·4 165 77·5
15 1,690 840 1,765 266 117 60 553 365 360 216 187 132 102 132 70·6 163 77·3
16 1,670 850 1,772 262 110 63 540 330 335 185 178 138 107 137 77·5 135 77·5
17 1,615 815 1,699 260 110 63 538 350 330 204 179 132 97 130 73·7 157 73·5
18 1,675 820 1,610 251 104 62 540 350 350 192 186 145 110 131 78·0 147 75·9
19 1,650 855 1,700 253 112 60 545 330 335 214 187 134 105 127 71·7 169 78·4[[cxv]]
20 1,600 807 1,685 250 107 59 534 350 340 196 182 137 102 130 75·3 151 74·5
21 1,590 825 1,625 251 114 62 537 335 330 195 180 137 107 135 76·1 144 78·1
22 1,575 825 1,680 236 102 62 524 330 331 200 181 130 95 126 71·8 159 73·1
23 1,590 780 1,652 251 110 57 540 354 360 212 189 137 103 127 72·5 167 75·2
24 1,550 820 1,580 240 112 57 527 334 329 206 184 130 105 127 70·7 162 80·8
25 1,600 815 1,675 250 115 58 560 360 370 209 186 130 108 132 69·9 158 83·1
26 1,650 830 1,725 252 115 56 530 360 360 185 185 135 97 125 73·0 148 71·9
27 1,730 865 1,780 278 120 62 540 360 360 189 185 135 110 130 73·0 145 81·5
28 1,720 885 1,760 256 115 58 560 350 360 212 185 135 110 125 73·0 170 81·5
29 1,632 820 1,720 225 105 56 530 350 330 182 179 130 100 127 72·6 143 76·9
30 1,650 815 1,745 257 115 61 560 370 360 193 190 135 110 133 71·1 145 81·5
31 1,740 865 1,795 260 115 52 550 330 330 196 184 130 110 130 70·7 151 84·6
32 1,652 850 1,750 238 115 63 550 375 350 197 190 138 110 125 73·2 158 79·7
33 1,640 835 1,790 252 120 56 570 380 375 219 197 134 108 134 68·0 164 80·6
Average 1,653 838 1,709 252 111 60 537 345 345 203 184 136 106 131 73·2 157 77·6

[[cxvi]]

NAME OF CASTE OR TRIBE—NAT.

Number. Height of Vertex. Height of Trunk. Span. Left Foot. Left Middle Finger. Right Ear Height. Round Head. Inion to Glabella. Tragus to Tragus. Vertex to Chin. Antero­posterior Diameter. Maximum Transverse Diameter. Minimum Frontal Diameter. Bizygomatic Diameter. Cephalic Index. General Index. Frontal Index.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
1 1,574 782 1,668 246 102 64 549 338 330 198 198 143 116 131 72·2 151 81·1
2 1,777 886 1,823 262 107 66 541 345 353 208 194 144 120 137 74·2 152 83·3
3 1,633 858 1,678 249 102 61 536 343 348 193 188 146 114 123 77·7 156 78·1
4 1,663 876 1,719 257 110 51 523 330 348 211 184 138 123 139 75·0 153 89·1
5 1,600 841 1,633 241 102 58 523 330 348 218 185 135 118 132 73·0 165 87·4
6 1,645 858 1,739 262 117 61 541 338 356 221 193 139 117 139 72·0 159 84·2
7 1,541 772 1,546 224 102 53 536 345 335 206 190 137 119 133 72·1 155 86·9
8 1,739 876 1,793 272 122 64 552 358 361 216 190 151 124 150 79·5 144 82·6
9 1,617 843 1,681 249 112 61 564 358 353 200 202 146 124 140 72·3 144 84·9
10 1,612 770 1,698 245 106 62 553 356 355 219 192 142 110 132 73·9 166 77·5[[cxvii]]
11 1,667 830 1,745 250 110 65 548 362 365 217 190 137 108 138 72·1 157 78·8
12 1,654 810 1,712 253 108 64 514 320 336 203 181 136 108 132 75·1 154 79·4
13 1,603 830 1,628 245 104 65 520 320 320 196 177 133 114 132 75·1 148 85·7
14 1,545 818 1,480 225 96 51 540 330 340 197 188 140 114 138 74·5 143 81·4
15 1,780 896 1,795 278 118 58 528 334 342 218 190 134 109 129 70·5 169 81·3
16 1,658 840 1,700 279 111 61 548 340 364 215 194 145 115 141 74·7 152 79·3
17 1,675 855 1,750 268 115 65 555 362 380 226 195 143 117 134 73·3 169 81·8
18 1,706 874 1,743 265 120 57 539 345 354 202 191 138 100 130 72·3 155 72·5
19 1,661 826 1,685 252 112 57 532 334 335 201 185 130 102 123 75·7 163 78·5
20 1,690 865 1,757 270 112 60 517 330 334 201 180 140 97 139 77·8 145 69·3
21 1,606 785 1,665 239 107 61 518 340 339 191 179 133 91 127 74·3 150 68·4
22 1,590 814 1,653 247 104 51 510 319 330 202 178 133 102 130 74·7 155 76·7
23 1,608 815 1,695 244 100 57 539 350 349 100 182 143 107 136 78·6 147 74·8
24 1,572 800 1,620 246 99 60 530 332 335 185 184 140 103 131 76·1 141 73·5
25 1,640 845 1,650 257 105 59 518 331 340 195 181 137 102 132 75·7 148 74·5
26 1,620 835 1,710 232 110 60 534 320 334 196 181 138 105 137 76·2 143 76·1
27 1,520 770 1,585 230 98 56 514 335 336 196 185 135 107 128 73·0 153 79·3[[cxviii]]
28 1,684 845 1,765 242 121 59 544 360 330 204 190 136 102 133 71·6 153 75·0
29 1,580 800 1,650 256 112 59 521 323 325 183 180 130 102 126 72·2 145 78·5
30 1,620 842 1,684 258 113 58 562 351 345 219 196 140 110 136 71·4 161 78·6
31 1,562 830 1,584 220 111 61 536 348 338 186 188 134 100 128 71·3 145 74·6
32 1,642 840 1,726 240 113 55 528 334 338 199 185 136 100 130 73·5 153 73·5
33 1,540 760 1,636 225 107 53 524 342 324 193 178 130 103 129 73·5 150 79·2
34 1,594 819 1,674 233 112 54 500 323 320 185 176 130 100 125 73·8 148 76·9
35 1,552 811 1,623 228 110 57 532 328 329 208 180 142 100 130 78·9 160 70·4
Average 1,627 830 1,681 260 109 59 534 342 345 202 187 138 109 133 73·9 153 78·7

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Anthropometry. 15. The result then of anthropometry as applied to caste appears to be that there is no good ground for disputing the fact that the present races of Northern India are practically one people. The figures prepared by Mr. Risley have been subjected to a close analysis by Mr. C. J. O’Donnell in the Bengal Census Report for 1891; and no account of the matter would be complete without reproducing his remarks.

16. “It is difficult to trace, in the introduction to The Castes and Tribes of Bengal, how far Mr. Risley recognises the influence of intermarriage between Aryans and Aboriginals, but he unquestionably denies the functional origin of caste, and seems to define it as ‘an institution, evolved by the Aryans in the attempt to preserve the purity of their own stock, and afterwards expanded and adapted, by the influence of a series of fictions, to fit an endless variety of social, religious and industrial conditions.’ With much originality he has sought to find a new guide to the ethnic composition of India in the science of anthropometry.

“ ‘Nowhere else,’ he writes, ‘in the world do we find the population of a large continent broken up into an infinite number of mutually exclusive aggregates, the members of which are forbidden by an inexorable social law to marry outside of the group to which they themselves belong. Whatever may have been the origin and the earlier developments of the caste system, this absolute prohibition of mixed marriages stands forth at the present day as its essential and most prominent characteristic. [[cxx]]In a society thus organised—a society sacrificing everything to pride of blood and the idea of social purity—it seemed that differences of physical type, however produced in past time, might be expected to manifest a high degree of persistence, and that the science which seeks to trace and express such differences would find a peculiarly favourable field for its operations. In Europe anthropometry has to confess itself hindered, if not baffled, by the constant intermixture of races, which tends to obscure and confuse the data arrived at by measurement. In a country where such intermixture is to a large extent eliminated, there were grounds for believing that divergent types would reveal themselves more clearly and that their characteristics would furnish some clue to their original race affinities.’