April 20th, 2009 
Aman 
Since the fifteenth century a considerable , originating from unions of Portuguese, English and other European with Indian women, has grown up, which forms an important element in the population of the great cities, the Bombay Konkan, and the settlements on the lower Himalayan ranges.
The Jews, Parsis, Armenians and certain other small foreign communities maintain their isolation so strictly that they hardly affect the racial character of the general population.
Sanskrit, with its derivative vernaculars; the old Persian, or Zend language; Greek, Latin, German, English and many other European tongues, form a well-defined group or families of languages which is designated either as Indo-Germanic or as Aryan. Many authors have shown a tendency must be of Aryan race, connected one with the other more or less closely by ties of blood. That assumption is wholly unwarranted. Community of language is no proof of community of blood. The population of India, as we have seen, comprises extremely various elements, descended from all sorts of people who formerly spoke all sorts of languages. In the north, for instance, no trace remains of the central Asian tongues spoken by the diverse tribes comprised under the terms Saka, Huna, or Yueh-Chi. The descendants of those people now speak Hindi and other languages closely related to Sanskrit. Similar cases maybe observed all over the world. Languages become extinct and are replaced by others spoken by races whose position gives them an advantage. Thus in Great Britain, the Cornish language is absolutely extinct, and the Cornish people, who are of different race from the English, now speak nothing and English.
Aryan ideas and institution have shown marvelous power and vitality in all parts of india. But the proportion of Aryan blood in the veins of the population which is small almost everywhere. In nonexistent in some provinces.
The most important family of the Indian language the indo Aryan comprises all the principal languages of norhter and wester india: hindi, Bengali, Marathi, gujrati and many others decending from ancient vernaculars or prakrits closely akin both to the vedic and to the later literary forms of Sanskrit.
The family or group of tounges second in importance is Dravidian in peninsula comprises tamil, telegu, malayam, kanarese and tulu, besides some minor toungue. Both tamil and telegu have rich literature. The tamil is the principal and perhaps the oldest language of the group. The grammer and the structure of the Dravidian speech differ wholly from Aryan type. The most ancient tamil literature dating from the early century for the chritian era or even earlier was composed on Dravidian lines and independent of Sanskrit model. The later literature in all the languages has been largely influenced by Brahmanical ideas and diction. The linguistic family is called Dravidian because dravida was the ancient name of the tamil country in the far south. In fact tamil is really the same word as the adjective dravida.
Three other families of language namely munda, the monkhumer and the tibeto Chinese are represented on the Indian soil, but as the poses little or no literature and are mostly spoken by rude savage or half civilized tribes it is unnecessary to discuss their peculiarities. The speakers of those toungue have had a small influence on course of history.
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