Indian people can be divided into six main ethnic groups. These include, Mongoloid, Proto Australiods, Mediterranean, Negrito, Western Brachycephalics and Nordic Aryans.
Mongoloids found in the North-Eastern part of India in the States of Assam, Nagaland, Mizomram, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, and Tripura and in Northern parts of West Bangal, Sikkim, and Ladakh are people with yellow complexion, oblique eyes, high cheekbones, sparse hair and medium height.
Proto Australoids or Austrics were the next to come to India after the Negritos. They are people with wavy hair lavishly distributed all over their brown bodies. Long headed with low foreheads and prominent eye ridges, noses with low and broad roots, thick jaws, large palates and teeth and small chins.
Mediterranean or Dravidians are the people of South India. They have been believed to come before the Aryans. They are reputed to have built up the city civilization of the Indus valley.
The Negritos from Africa were the earliest people to have come to India. They have survived in their original habitant in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The Jarawas, Onges, Sentinelese and the Great Andamanese are some of the examples. Some hill tribes like Irulas, Kodars, Paniyans and Kurumbas are found in some patches in Southern part of mainland India.
Western Brachycephalics include the broad headed people living mainly on the Western side of the country such as the Ganga valley and the delta, parts of Kashmir, Kathiawar, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The Parsis and Kodavas also fall in this category.
The Austrics of India represent a race of medium height, dark complexion with long heads and rather flat noses but otherwise of regular features. Miscegenation with the earlier Negroids may be the reason for the dark or black pigmentation of the skin and flat noses. The Austrics laid the foundation of Indian Civilisation. They cultivated rice and vegetables and made sugar from sugarcane. Now these people are found in some parts of India, Myanmar and the islands of south-East Asia. Their languages have survived in the Central and Eastern India.
Nordics points were the last one to immigrate to India. They came to India somewhere between 2000 and 1500 BC. They are now mainly found in the Northern and Central part of India.
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