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actually, there are those who believe the lower caste Indians are Austrailoid and Negroid as well as Caucazoid...likewise Himalayan Indians are obviously at least part Mongoloid

You mean the tribals in India are Negroid and Australoid -- I was reading a good book on the various movements in ancient times -- and on the chapter on India it does note that the Negroids/Australoids who would have first populated the Indian continent were destroyed by the Dravidians (the people of the Harappan civilisation) -- their remnants are the tribals who are basically out of the caste system -- just like non-Indians today are not considered part of the caste system. The only remnants the tribals can be found in isolated jungle tracts and in the Andaman islands where their Stone-Age culture is preserved by the Indian government.

Himalayan Indians seem definitely part Mongoloid -- but then the entire boundary betwen India and CHina - like Indo-China, Tibet etc. seem a mix of Mongoloid and Caucasoid peoples.