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"India is for the author [of the History of Mankind, Ratzel], a region where races have been broken up pulverized, kneaded by conquerors. Doubtless a pre-Dravidian negroid type came first, of low stature and mean physique, though these same are, in India, the result of poor social and economic conditions.
Usually, people in different regions respect each other's cultures and traditions. According to local sources, unity in diversity has been growing in India, making the country more tolerant. [2] In 2013, World Values Survey reported 43.5% of Indians responded that they would prefer not to have neighbors of a different race.
A number of cities in India had a population between a quarter-million and half-million people, [40] with larger cities including Agra (in Agra Subah) with up to 800,000 people [45] and Dhaka (in Bengal Subah) with over 1 million people. [46] Mughal India also had a large number of villages, with 455,698 villages by the time of Aurangzeb ...
While the demonym "Indian" applies to people originating from the present-day India, it was also used as the identifying term for people originating from what is now Pakistan and Bangladesh prior to the Partition of India in 1947. [37] [38] In 2022, the population of India stood at 1.4 billion people, of various ethnic groups.
Guha is best known for his work on classification of the Indian people into racial groups Although the concept of race has been rejected by the evolutionary scientists, Guha's theories are of historical interest.In the later part of his life Guha, however strongly opined that purity of race is a myth and mixture of human populations is the reality.So, nations built up on the basis of so-called ...
Pages in category "Ethnic groups in India" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 325 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Risley's interpretation of the nasal index went beyond investigation of the two-race theory. He believed that the variations shown between the extremes of those races of India were indicative of various positions within the caste system, [25] saying that generally "the social position of a caste varies inversely as its nasal index."
The 2000 and 2010 U.S. Census Bureau definition of the Asian race is: "people having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent (for example, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam)". [29]