And there are Hindus who have similar features too. That wouldn't be the case if they were descendents of foreigners. India's social caste norms would have kept them out.
An Indian girl from Kashmir
Another actress from the south of the country
And there are Hindus who have similar features too. That wouldn't be the case if they were descendents of foreigners. India's social caste norms would have kept them out.
An Indian girl from Kashmir
Another actress from the south of the country
...and here I thought Indians all look like those guys from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
Nice pics, but you really have no idea what other races have entered into the child and the woman’s bloodlines. India was occupied by the British for a long time.
Races is probably the wrong word, but you know what I mean. :)
They’re called “Indo-European Languages” for a reason.
The ancestors of the northern Indians and the ancestors of the native Indo-European language speakers in Europe (which is everybody but Basques, Finns, Hungarians and new immigrant arrivals) both started somewhere in north central Asia. Some went west and became the Europeans. Some went south and became the Indians and Persians. The languages are related, and the people are genetically related. That’s why Sanskrit and ancient Greek are close, but neither is related to the intervening Hebrew.
Incidentally, the proper term for the original Indo-Europeans is...Aryans (meaning “Owners” in Sanskrit). The REAL Aryan race were the originators of ALL of the Europeans AND the northern, light-skinned Indians.
And the Iranians. In fact, Iran only got its name in the age of Hitler. It was always Persia (or Parthia, or Media, et al) before that. The Persians, proud to not be ARABS or anything like the Turkic peoples who surround them to the north, glommed onto the racialist theories coming out of Europe, especially Germany, at the time. And so they named the country “Aryan”. That is what “Iran” is, and means. “Iran” is Farsi for “Aryan”. Persia consciously renamed itself “Aryan”, to specifically identify the race of its people. And Farsi is indeed related to English, in the same genetic tree. But Turkish and Arabic are not.
Many Indians have a LOT of English and Scots blood in them from the long period the Brits ruled India (or tried to).