2. Race

You might have seen in the movies or the tourists from abroad visiting our country. They are distinct from us both physically and culturally. Even within the country, we can spot such differences. People from China are mostly shorter than Indians, compared to that of Europeans, who are naturally tall in appearance.

The most widely found human racial types are based on visual attributes such as head shape, facial features, nose shape, eye shape and colour, skin colour, stature, blood groups etc.,

It is also known as the Caucasian race. People those having light to fair skin are traditionally classified as Causasoid. It is a European race generally found in Eurasia.

 

  

The term is used for people from Sub-Saharan Africa. They are living in different parts of Africa.

 

  

The mongoloid race is generally known as the Asian-American race. The Mongoloid race is found in Asia and the arctic region. It is subdivided into several smaller races: North Asiatic, Arctic, South Asiatic, Far East, and American.

 

 

The Australoid is a racial classification that is used in reference to the people of Southeast Asia, South Asia, Melanesia, Australia, and other regions in East Asia.

 

 

India has a diverse population and known to be one of the cradle lands of human civilisation. Ancient Indus valley civilisation was believed to have been of Dravidian origin in northern India. On the advent of Indo-Aryan and the conflicts between the two races, Dravidians were pushed to the south. 

 

South India was dominated by the three mighty Dravidian kingdoms, the Chera, the Cholas, and the Pandyas. The Dravidian languages are Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Tulu. Almost all the Dravidians live in the southern part of India.