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Barren Island, a possession of India in the Andaman Sea about 135 km NE of Port Blair in the Andaman Islands, is the only historically active volcano along the N-S-trending volcanic arc extending between Sumatra and Burma (Myanmar). The 354-m-high island is the emergent summit of a volcano that rises from a depth of about 2250 m.

The Dravidians, the Aryans and the Mangolians were the three major racial elements which came together to form the Bengalee race.

Shashanka's capital Karnasuvarna is now known as Murshidabad

Sir Herbert Risley was the first to trace the relation of round head of Bengali people with Mongoloid characteristics. He considered these people as a common descendants of Dravidians and Mangoloid people.