Indid race

2021-06-14T11:50:23Z

2405:204:560F:FDCD:B48C:A1CA:A864:414D: Austronesian confused for Dravidian. False souce cited.

[[File:Portret van een onbekende handelaar uit Lahore Khatris. Hindoo traders. Lahore (titel op object), RP-F-2001-7-1122D-51.jpg|thumb|A [[Khatri]] man from the city of [[Lahore]] in [[colonial India]] (1859)]]
The '''Indid race''' is an obsolete term for the physical type most common among populations native to the [[Indian subcontinent]].<ref name="SP2007">{{cite book |title=Man in India, Volumes 87-88 |date=2007 |publisher=Serials Publications |page=401 |language=English |quote=The Indid group mostly comprises the Hindu castes and the Muslims, who may be considered as Caucasoid in origin.}}</ref><ref name="Iyer1995">{{cite book |last1=Iyer |first1=L. A. Krishna |title=Man in Kerala: Twelve Anthropological Essays Selected from Writings of (Padma Bushan) L.A. Krishna Iyer (also Incorporating Five Appendices) |date=1995 |publisher=Centre for Training and Research in Anthropology & Management |page=136 |language=English |quote=By number and expansion, the most important race of the population of the Indian sub-continent is the Indid race.}}</ref> The Indid type was classified as belonging to the greater [[Caucasian race|Caucasoid]] race in 19th and 20th century anthropological literature.<ref name="SP2007"/><ref name="McMahon2019"/>

== Physiognomy ==
American anthropologist [[Carleton S. Coon]] described the Indid race as occupying the [[Indian subcontinent]], beginning from the [[Khyber Pass]].<ref name="Carleton1939">{{cite book|author=[[Carleton S. Coon]] |title=The Races of Europe |date=1939 |publisher=Dalcassian Publishing Company |page=287 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kCjHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA287&dq=%22Indid%22+Coon+Carleton&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiIr5iJlLPtAhVFHc0KHRrBDJUQ6AEwAHoECAMQAg#v=onepage&q=%22Indid%22%20Coon%20Carleton&f=false |language=English}}</ref> Coon wrote that "India is the easternmost outpost of the Caucasian racial region."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Coon |first1=Carleton Stevens |last2=Hunt |first2=Edward E. |title=The Living Races of Man |date=1966 |publisher=Cape |page=207 |language=English}}</ref> [[Indologist]]s, such as those in the All-India Oriental Conference, described in 1941 the Indid type to constitute a standard set of features:<ref name="AIOC1941">{{cite book |title=Proceedings and Transactions of the All-India Oriental Conference, Volume 10 |date=1941 |publisher=All-India Oriental Conference |page=485 |language=English}}</ref>
{{quotation|Indid: Consisting of the main body of the people of India: slim, graceful body, thin bones, medium height, long head, long face, brown skin, black wavy hair, protruding narrow forehead, triangular nose, weak chin.<ref name="AIOC1941"/>}}
The Royal Society of Letters at Lund likewise stated in 1946 that the Indid type possessed a narrow forehead and large eye sockets.<ref>{{cite book |title=Årsberättelse - Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskapssamfundet i Lund: Bulletin de la Société Royale Des Lettres de Lund |date=1946 |publisher=CWK Gleerup |page=47 |language=English}}</ref> [[John Montgomery Cooper]], an American ethnologist and [[Roman Catholic]] priest, on 26 April 1945 in a hearing before the [[United States Senate]] "To Permit all people from India residing in the United States to be Naturalized" recorded:<ref name="Cooper1945">{{cite book |title=To Permit All People from India Residing in the United States to be Naturalized: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Immigration, United States Senate, Seventy-ninth Congress, First Session, on S. 236. April 26, 1945 |date=26 April 1945 |publisher=[[United States Senate Committee on Immigration]] |pages=5–6 |language=English}}</ref>
{{quotation|The people of India are predominantly Caucasoid. Their features, hair texture, hairiness, the shape of the nose, mouth, and so on, are all distinctly Caucasoid. It is only in some of the far, out-of-the-way places of India, as in this country, that you find certain traces of other races.<ref name="Cooper1945"/>}}

German physical anthropologist [[Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt]] (1892–1965) made two subdivisions of the Indid race: (1) the North Indid type, which he stated was typified by people such as the [[Toda people|Todas]] of the [[Nilgiri Mountains]] and [[Rajput]]s from [[Rajasthan]]; and (2) the Gracile Indid type, which he stated was represented by people such as the [[Bengali people|Bengalis]].<ref name="MalhotraVasulu2019">{{cite journal |last1=Malhotra |first1=K.C. |last2=Vasulu |first2=T.C. |title=Development of typological classification and its relationship to microdifferentiation in ethnic India |journal=[[Journal of Biosciences]] |date=2019 |volume=44 |issue=64 |page=64 |language=English}}</ref><ref name="Sharma1997">{{cite book |last1=Sharma |first1=Ram Nath |last2=Sharma |first2=Rajendra K. |title=Anthropology |date=1997 |publisher=Atlantic Publishers |isbn=978-81-7156-673-0 |page=122 |language=English}}</ref> The [[Romani people]], being among the oldest members of the [[Indian diaspora]], were classified as being of the Indid type.<ref name="Wolf1971">{{cite book |last1=Wolf |first1=Josef |title=Integral Anthropology: An Introduction to the Study of Man, Culture and Society |date=1971 |publisher=Statni Pedagogicke Nakladatelstvi |page=200 |language=English |quote=The gypsies, who are actually of Indian origin and come from the North-West India region, are also akin to this Indid type.}}</ref>

The theory propounded by German comparative philologists in the 1840s and 1850s "maintained that the speakers of Indo-European languages in India, Persia, and Europe were of the same culture and race."<ref name="Veer2014"/> This led to a distinction between the majority [[Indo-Aryan peoples]] of [[northern India]] and the less populous [[Dravidian peoples|speakers of Dravidian languages]], located mostly in [[southern India]] with pockets in the [[Baluchistan (Chief Commissioner's Province)|Baluchistan Province]] in the northwest.<ref name="Veer2014">{{cite book |last1=Veer |first1=Peter van der |title=Conversion to Modernities |date=14 January 2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-66183-9 |page=130 |language=English |quote=Caldwell's articulation of the racial and historical basis of the Aryan-Dravidian divide was, in fact, perhaps the first European valorization of the Dravidian category cast specifically in racial terms, though he admitted the likelihood of considerable racial intermixture. At the same time, Caldwell was merely modifying conventional wisdom in his uncritical acceptance of an Aryan theory of race, in which Dravidians were seen as pre-Aryan inhabitants of India. The Aryan theory of race, based as it was on William Jones's well-known "discovery" of the Indo-Aryan family of languages, had been developed by German comparative philologists in the 1840s and 1850s. It maintained that the speakers of Indo-European languages in India, Persia, and Europe were of the same culture and race.}}</ref> Notwithstanding, Dravidians came to be classified as belonging to the Caucasian race by 19th and 20th-century anthropologists.

In 1929, the editor of ''[[Vreme]]'' in discussing the [[Miss Yugoslavia|Miss Yugoslavia Competition]] wrote that the [[Yugoslavs]] were a heterogeneous group, "defined by blond hair and blue eyes, with admixtures of northern Asian and Indid races, Slav tribes, and old Balkan races such as the Thracians."<ref name="McMahon2019">{{cite book |last1=McMahon |first1=Richard |title=National Races: Transnational Power Struggles in the Sciences and Politics of Human Diversity, 1840-1945 |date=2019 |publisher=[[University of Nebraska Press]] |isbn=978-1-4962-0582-7 |page=315 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JxieDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA315&dq=%22Yugoslav+racial+beauty+drew+its+strength,+he+wrote,+from+its+heterogeneity,+combining+the+attributes+of+the+Slavic+race,+defined+by+blond+hair+and+blue+eyes,+with+admixtures+of+northern+Asian+and+Indid+races,+Slav+tribes,+and+old+Balkan+races%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjD9fzBorPtAhXMPM0KHZB1C9gQ6AEwAHoECAAQAg#v=onepage&q=%22Yugoslav%20racial%20beauty%20drew%20its%20strength%2C%20he%20wrote%2C%20from%20its%20heterogeneity%2C%20combining%20the%20attributes%20of%20the%20Slavic%20race%2C%20defined%20by%20blond%20hair%20and%20blue%20eyes%2C%20with%20admixtures%20of%20northern%20Asian%20and%20Indid%20races%2C%20Slav%20tribes%2C%20and%20old%20Balkan%20races%22&f=false |language=en}}</ref>

== See also ==
*[[Historical definitions of races in India]]
*[[Aryavarta]]
*[[Iranid race]]

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