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http://dialogue.hubpages.com/hub/Classification-of-Indian-Race
- Herbert Hope Risley was a British ethnographer and entered the Indian Civil Service in 1873. In 1890, he attempted the racial classification of India and conducted the study on the basis of Anthropomorphic Technique
- report in 1915 in 'The Peoples of India'. Risley classified Indian population into seven racial types.
- Turko - Iranian Type
- broad head, medium nose
- fairly tall
- Plentiful hair on the face
- eyes are generally dark
- fair complexion
- Baluchistan Province.
- represented by Baluchis and Afghans.
- Indo - Aryan Type:
- long head
- long nose,
- Fair complexion and have dark coloured eyes
- live in the regions of Rajasthan, Patna, Punjab and the valley of Kashmir
- Scythio - Dravidian Type
- medium to broad head
- nose is medium
- Fair complexion.
- Scanty hair on the face and body.
- Stature is medium.
- larger heads, flatter faces, higher noses and shorter stature.
- Gujarat and Coorg regions.
- Aryo - Dravidian Type
- long heads with tendency towards medium
- Skin colour varies from light brown to dark
- Nose is medium but broad
- shorter and dark nose.
- Uttar-Pradesh, Rajputna, Bihar.
- inter-mixture of male Aryans and female Dravidians.
- broad head with tendency towards medium
- Mongolo - Dravidian or Bengali Type
- nose is medium.
- skin colour is dark.
- plentiful facial hair.
- Stature is medium and short sometimes.
- broad heads.
- Mongolian Type:
- broad head and nose varies from fine to broad
- Stature is short or below medium
- Oblique eyes showing epicanthic fold
- skin color is dark
- Scanty body with hair on the face
- in and around Assam Nepal and Burma.
- Dravidian Type
- short statured people.
- Long head and Nose is broad
- depression seen at the root of nose
- Skin colour is very dark and dark coloured eyes
- true aborigines of India
- Hair is dark in colour and tends to curl.
- from ceylon to ganges covering whole south-eastern India
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