Judging from the physical appearance, Indians have dark skin.

Judging from this appearance, many people think that Indians are black people.

However, in addition to skin color, hair shape, facial features and other characteristics, there are many other main basis for classifying human race, such as bones.

Different bones, different races.

Taking the skull as an example, those with a nearly oval-shaped skull are Caucasians; those with a triangular-shaped skull are yellow; and those with a nearly square skull are black.

The circumference of the Indian skull is approximately oval.

Judging from this main basis of distinction, although Indians have dark skin, they are not black, but white.

Classification introduction 1.

Negritos.

It is characterized by short stature, dark brown skin, black hair, wide nose, thick lips, narrow shoulders, short legs, little beard and body hair, and long arms.

According to relevant scholars, these people are the earliest residents of India.

Today's Andamanese, the Kadars and Palains in coastal areas of India, and some indigenous people in the mountains of Bihar are their descendants.

2.

Primitive Australians, also known as Vader types.

The physical characteristics of Australia's Aboriginals and primitive Australians are very similar, hence the name.

Some scholars believe that this kind of people entered India earlier than the Dravidians, so they are also called "pre-Dravidians".

The characteristics and body characteristics of primitive Australians are: long hairstyle, short stature, dark and curly hair, wide nose and thick lips, and brown skin color. Most of the indigenous tribesmen in central India belong to this category. They are also found in southern India, such as the Bhil people,

Jiejiu people, Mengda people, Orang people, Huo people, Gond people, Konde people and so on.

3.

Dravidians, or Mediterranean Caucasian race.

This race is found from Spain and Morocco to India.

According to the research of relevant anthropologists, it is divided into several branches, which entered India at different times earlier than the Aryans.

The characteristics of this kind of person are: long face, medium build, light brown curly hair, thin lips, and light brown skin.

Speaking Dravidian languages ??and using pictorial characters, this race created the Indus Valley Civilization.

Dravidians account for 21.6% of India's total population and are mainly distributed in South India.

There are different opinions on whether the Dravidians are the original indigenous people of India.

It is generally believed that after the Aryans entered India in ancient times, they drove the Dravidians from western and northern India to southern India, and the Dravidians became the original inhabitants of southern India.

Therefore, some scholars say that the Dravidians are the indigenous people of India.

And some scholars have found out the earlier name of the Dravidian race from ancient Indian books, which was called Nishada.

There is also a theory that the earliest Aboriginal people in India were of the same ancestry as the original Australians.

This original Australian people were originally from Asia, and later a group of people were transplanted into Australians.

Some Western scholars believe that there used to be a large country south of the equator, reaching Java in the east and Africa in the west. This country was called "Lemauria" and was the place where the Dravidians first lived.

Change, most of it was flooded.

This statement is also recorded in Tamil literature.

One of the five great epics in Tamil, Shirbhatikarma and Madurastra Brarang, contains records of the flooding of South Madurai.

In any case, it was the Dravidians who developed the Mohenshdaro and Harappan cultures in northwest India. The so-called Indus Valley Civilization actually refers to the civilization of the Dravidians, who made great contributions to Indian culture.

made considerable contributions.

This race is also differentiated and has formed many branches, as well as many mixed races.

Their characteristics are: dark skin, long heads, long upper arms, flat noses, and short stature. The Santals in West Bengal are now pure Dravidians.

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Indo-Aryans.

They were originally of the same species as the European Aryans. To distinguish them from the European Aryans, they were called Indo-Aryans.

Around 2500 BC, the Aryans took advantage of the trend of racial migration in the world and moved in two directions: east and west. One group entered Europe from Central Asia and became the ancestors of today's Europeans; the other group moved eastward from Central Asia.

, crossed the Hindu Kush and Karakoram plateaus, lived in the Iranian plateau and India, and became the ancestors of Iranians and Indians.

The Aryans were warlike nomads. After entering India, they often had fierce battles with the Dravidians living here, and later gradually conquered them.

Most of the Dravidians were driven south, and some were reduced to slavery.

The Aryans began to occupy the Punjab area on the upper reaches of the Indus River in northwest India.

Later, it gradually developed eastward to the upper reaches of the Ganges River.

They found that the land here was fertile and rich in resources, so more and more immigrants moved in, forming the Aryan race in India.

The Aryans were originally Caucasians, and their appearance clearly has European characteristics, such as tall stature, long heads, many beards, thin and high nose bridges, wide foreheads and fair skin.

Today, many Indians are their descendants, or are their mixed race. People with purer blood can also be found today, such as Rajputs, Chhats, etc., mainly distributed in places such as Punjab and Rajasthan.

5.

Mongoloid race.

Northern and northeastern India are connected to the interior of Asia. Due to various geographical and historical reasons, Asian Mongols entered the South Asian subcontinent from the north and northeast around the middle of the first millennium BC, forming the Mongoloid component.

Due to its backward culture, it played little role in ancient Indian history.

Their skin color is yellow or brown, their faces are flat, their jaws are protruding, their noses are small, their lips are thick, their shoulders are broad, and they have little beard and body hair.

Mongolians are divided into two types: long-headed and broad-headed.