RACIAL DIVERSITY IN INDIA September 6, 2015 iasguru RACIAL DIVERSITY RACIAL DIVERSITY Favourable physiography and prevailing climate condition of the country has been the cause of influx of population streams majorly from central Asia along with Australia and Tanzania thus the resultant racial diversity in India. It is the long temporal influx of these people that marks the development of India as the example of multiracial country. The validity of racial categorization have been discarded in context of strong intermixing among the racial communities .It is census report 1991 that thus avails the data for the general spatial categorization and analysis of racial diversity in India. The prominent racial group recognized in the country is Caucasoid with the division of Dravidian and Aryans as peninsular and extra peninsular dwellers. The Dravidian population incorporates two major racial groups identified as Negrittos and Paleo Mediterranean. 1.Negritto racial group is especially applicable to Andaman – Nicobar Islands however also incorporate the tribal communities of southern hills in the peninsular interiors.They are referred to be the black short heightened people and possibly the first influx of population stream in the analysis of racial diversity in India. 2.Paleo Mediterranean racial group are referred as true Dravidian .They are correlated to initiation of agriculture activities in the peninsula. Proto Australoid: are the central Indian dwellers in the analysis of racial diversity in India. They form the transitional racial belt between True Dravidian and true Aryans. This racial group have been related to the Indus valley civilization and thereby the cultural significance of inducing agrarian and urban characteristics in the cultural advancement of the country. Mongoloid racial group: marked the second phase of dominating population influx in the temporal sequence .They are applicable majorly to the northern mountain wall where in North-Western Himalayas denotes the dominance of Paleo Mongoloids whereas for North-Eastern states racial category is dominated as Tibeto-Mongoloid . The true Aryans extra peninsular dwellers incorporates 3 sub racial divides Dinaric Caucasoid typical to western India True Mediterranean East Indian dwellers Dominating Aryan race Nordics in near total northern plains of country. Proto - Australoids or Austrics Pro-Australoids or Austrics These groups were the next to come to this subcontinent after the Negritos. They are believed to have arrived in India some 5000 years ago . They are people with wavy hair lavishly distributed all over their brown bodies, long headed with low foreheads and prominent eye ridges, noses with low and broad roots, thick jaws, large palates and teeth and small chins. The Austrics of India represent a race of medium height, dark complexion with long heads and rather flat noses but otherwise of regular features. 6 The Austrics laid the foundation of Indian civilization The Austrics laid the foundation of Indian civilization. They cultivated rice and vegetables and made sugar from sugarcane. Now these people are found in some parts of India, Myanmar and the islands of South East Asia. Their languages have survived in the Central and Eastern India. 7 Characteristics Skin colour: Black Hair: wavy hair long head Arms & legs: long and spindly 8 Mediterranean or Dravidian They have been believed to come before the Aryans. They have different sub-groups like the Paleo-Mediterranean, the true Mediterranean, and the Oriental Mediterranean. They appear to be people of the same stock as the peoples of Asia Minor and Crete and pre- Hellenic Aegean's of Greece. They are reputed to have built up the city civilization of the Indus valley, whose remains have been found at Mohenjo- daro and Harappa and other Indus cities. 9 Western Brachycephals These include the Alpinoids, Dinarics and Armenoids. The Parsis and Kodavas also fall in this category. They are the broad headed people living mainly on the western side of the country such as the Ganga Valley and the delta, parts of Kashmir, Kathiawar, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. 10 Nordics or the Indo-Aryans This group were the last one to immigrate to India. They came to India somewhere between 2000 and 1500 B.C. They are now mainly found in the northern and central part of India.

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