Ethnic

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. 

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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.

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The main weaker section of India are Scheduled class, scheduled tribes and Other Backward class.