Thomas Callan Hodson

Thomas Callan Hodson (1871–1953) was the first William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, where he was a Fellow of St Catharine's College, notable for his writings on Indian anthropology and for coining the term sociolinguistics.

On one of his first assignments, he served as the personal assistant to Henry Cotton, then the Chief Commissioner of Assam.

This migration was followed by an immigration of more civilised Mediterraneans from the Persian Gulf (ultimately from eastern Europe).

All these immigrants were of the dolichocephalic type, but the Indus valley people had a mixed brachycephalic element coming from the Anatolian plateau, in the form of the Armenoid branch of the Alpine race.

Later, a brachycephalic race speaking perhaps an Indo-European language of the "Pisacha or Dardic family", migrated to India from the Iranian plateau and the Pamirs.