 In India the major ethnic sub groups are as follow-

 Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and

other 3% (2000)
 The ethno- linguistic composition of the population
of South Asia, that is the nations of India, Pakistan ,
Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives and Sri lanka,
as well as sometimes Afghanistan, mostly falls
within two large groups, Dravidian and Indo Aryan.
 India has more than two thousand ethnic groups.
 Negritos from Africa, are now represented by
tribal population in some interior jungles of
South India and Andamans.
 Proto-Australoids, original builders of the Indus

valley civilization, settled in hilly and forest

tracts of Central and Southern India and in
lower strata of North India.
 Mongoloids coming from China settled mostly

in Ladakh, Sikkim, Arunachal, Assam and North

Eastern States.
 Mediterranean coming from Southwest Asia around
2000 BC and believed to be the bearers of earliest
form of Hinduism and the architects of later Indus
Valley Civilization, have been pushed to Ganga
plain and Central and South India. Today they
constitute the bulk of population in South India and
bulk of scheduled castes in North, including Punjab.
 Alphinoids, Dinarics and Armenoids came from
South Europe, now known as Coorgis and the
Parsis.
 Nordics came to India around 2000 BC. They now
live in Northwest India and are supposed to be the
upper castes of North India.
 The main weaker section of India are
Scheduled class, scheduled tribes and Other
Backward class.