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‎Austramiatic

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This article is an extract from
CENSUS OF INDIA, 1931
Report by
J. H. HUTTON, C.I.E., D..."

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 to Polynesia, and this may indeed be the true interpretation of facts, but there
 are certain features of its Indian distribution which appear to point in the other
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 direction. Square-shouldered adzes abound in the Irrawadi valley ; specimens are
 found very rarely in the Santal Parganas and the Madras Agency tracts, and
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 generally, and which may be correlated to the copper and bronze types
 of Mohenjodaro which are all unshouldered, In the Chota Nagpur area, however, shouldered copper celts are obtained, generally, it seems, from
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 pre-historic burials, and these must be associated with the shouldered
 stone ones, as must the shouldered iron hoes still used by the Khasis
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 and by some Nagas in Assam, as by Sawaras and other Munda tribes in India
 proper. These hoes are as pronounced in type and as distinctive from fhe hoes in
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 distribution of the shouldered adze and hoe in stone and metal is not coextensive
 with that of the Munda language and is not reported from the Nicobars, and the
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 inference is that it is either an intrusion from Oceania or a development which
 started in eastern India and thence spread to the islands. One rather curious
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 feature in this case is the sporadic appearance of the true shouldered adze of the
 Irrawadi type in India, accompanied by a very common prevalence of a roughly
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 Shouldered adzes have involved a digression from the matter of language,
 but it is difficult to consider the question of the Munda languages entirely apart
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 from any cultural features which form part of the same complex. Although
 shouldered hoes of chert are clearly depicted (Hall and Woolley, al-Ubaid, plate
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 Indeed in a paper in the Royal Asiatic Society's Journal in 1931 he derives the name
 of Varuna as well as the Hittite Aruna from a Sumerian root and an Austroasiatic
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 god of the sea, Baru. and holds that there is no reason to suppose that Varuna was
 ever anything other than a sea god. This seems on the face of it an unnecessarily
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 By an
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 ingenious equation of these tribes with the Padaei of Herodotus, Przyluski
 associates these Munda-speakers with the Melanesians through the practice of
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 who have retained their Austroasiatic speech, while the stories of aged-relative..
 eating have a distribution corresponding roughly with that of Munda languages
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 to-day, attributing the practice to hill tribes of Chhattisgarh and the Amarkantak
 tableland, to the Birhors of Chota Nagpur, to hill tribes in Assam, to some

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 established themselves in India precisely as they did in Babylon, as barbarian
 rulers of more cultured peoples.
 ==Indo-European==
 With the advent in India of the Indo-European we come at

Census India 1931: Language - Revision history

Pdewan at 22:07, 25 July 2016

Pdewan: /* Austramiatic */

Pdewan: Created page with "{| class="wikitable" |- |colspan="0"| This article is an extract from CENSUS OF INDIA, 1931 Report by J. H. HUTTON, C.I.E., D..."

Pdewan: Created page with "{| class="wikitable" |- |colspan="0"|
This article is an extract from
CENSUS OF INDIA, 1931
Report by
J. H. HUTTON, C.I.E., D..."