Description
The aboriginal tribes, we read, were for the most part vanquished and reduced to serfdom, and formed the servile and impurer castes of the Hindu community, amalgamating either wholly or partially with their conquerors. But there were those who did not submit, who fought and receded till they reached parts of the country where the conquerors did not care to seek for them; and there is no reason to doubt that the dark wild tribes of the interior hills and jungles of India, who differ so widely from the inhabitants of the plains, are the remnants of the stubborn Dasyas that did not yield. The chief abode of the aboriginal races to be described is the centre of the peninsula—namely, the Vindhya mountains, which run east and west, from the Ganges to Guzerat, und the broad forest-tract extending north and south from the neighbourhood of Allahabad to the banks of the Godavery; but they are not necessarily the aborigines of the places they now occupy.
