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The traditions of different ethnic groups in South Asia have diverged, influenced by external cultures, especially in the northwestern parts of South Asia and also in the border regions and busy ports, where there are greater levels of contact with external cultures. There is also a lot of genetic diversity within the region.
South Indian communities (3 C, 139 P) T. Tribes of India (13 C, 34 P) ... Vellalar clans (12 P) Σ. Indian ethnic group stubs (389 P) Pages in category "Ethnic groups ...
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The process of post-Harappan/Dravidian influences on southern India has tentatively been called "Dravidianization", [74] and is reflected in the post-Harappan mixture of IVC and Ancient Ancestral South Indian people. [75] Yet, according to Krishnamurti, Dravidian languages may have reached south India before Indo-Aryan migrations. [53]
South Indian culture refers to the cultural region typically covering the South Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana.The idea of South India is closely linked to the Dravidian ethnic and linguistic identity and therefore it can also refer to groups in central India such as the Gondi and the Kui.
The medieval south Indian mathematician Mahāvīra lived in the Rashtrakuta dynasty and was the first Indian mathematician who separated astrology from mathematics and who wrote the earliest Indian text entirely devoted to mathematics. [45] The greatest maritime empire of the medieval Indians was the Chola dynasty.
South India, also known as Southern India or Peninsular India, is the southern part of the Deccan Peninsula in India encompassing the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry, occupying 19.31% of India's area (635,780 km 2 or 245,480 sq mi) and 20% of India's population.
The Romani people ( or ), also known as the Roma (: Rom), are an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin who traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle. Linguistic and genetic evidence suggests that the Roma originated in the Indian subcontinent, in particular the region of Rajasthan. Their first wave of westward migration is believed to have ...