Monday, 14 November 2016

ETHNIC BACKGROUND OF INDIAN PEOPLE.

India is a fascinating country where people of many different communities and religions live together in unity. Indian population in polygenetic and is an amazing amalgamation of various races and cultures.

It is impossible to find out the exact origin of indian people. The species known as Ramapithecus was found in the Siwalik Foothills of North Western Himalayas. The species believed to be the first in the line of huminids, known as human family lived some 14 million years ago. Researchers have found that a species resembling the Austrapithecus lived in india some 2 million years ago. Even the dscovery leaves an evolutionary gap of as much as 12 million years since Ramapithecus.


There are many diverse ethnic groups among the people of India. Negrito, Proto- Australoids or Austrics, Mongoloids, Mediterranean or Dravidian, Western Brachycephals ans Nordic Aryans are the six main ethnic groups of Indian people.


WRITTEN  BY : KASVINI 

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