Monday, September 5, 2011

classification of race in india


1.       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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