ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the lower tribes, an obscure people, who, in the absence of a race-name of their own, may be called the non-Aryans or Aborigines. In the Sanskrit epic which narrates the advance of the Aryans into Southern India, a non-Aryan chief describes his race as 'of fearful swiftness, unyielding in battle, in colour like a dark-blue cloud.' The non-Aryan hill races, who appear from Vedic times down- Predatory raccs wards as marauders, have at length ceased to be a disturbing element in India. The Kandh system of tillage represented a stage half-way Kandh between the migratory cultivation of the ruder non-Aryan tribes and the settled agriculture of the Hindus. The Juangs are an isolated non-Aryan remnant among an Aryan and Uriya-speaking population. In front of the far-stretching background of the early Metal and Stone Ages, we see the so-called Aborigines being beaten down by the newly-arrived Aryan race.
