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    The document summarizes the major ethnic groups in India. It states that the main ethnic sub-groups are Indo-Aryan at 72% and Dravidian at 25%, with various other minor groups making up the remaining 3%. It outlines that India has over 2000 ethnic groups representing Negritos, Proto-Australoids, Mongoloids, Mediterranean peoples, Alphinoids, Dinarics, Armenoids, and Nordics who have settled in different regions of India at different points in history.

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    The document summarizes the major ethnic groups in India. It states that the main ethnic sub-groups are Indo-Aryan at 72% and Dravidian at 25%, with various other minor groups making up the remaining 3%. It outlines that India has over 2000 ethnic groups representing Negritos, Proto-Australoids, Mongoloids, Mediterranean peoples, Alphinoids, Dinarics, Armenoids, and Nordics who have settled in different regions of India at different points in history.

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    The document summarizes the major ethnic groups in India. It states that the main ethnic sub-groups are Indo-Aryan at 72% and Dravidian at 25%, with various other minor groups making up the remaining 3%. It outlines that India has over 2000 ethnic groups representing Negritos, Proto-Australoids, Mongoloids, Mediterranean peoples, Alphinoids, Dinarics, Armenoids, and Nordics who have settled in different regions of India at different points in history.

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     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.

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