Ethnic Groups of South Asia (In Pictures)

[Shah-Jehan]

Himachali people

Himachali refers to the native inhabitants of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. They speak the Western Pahari languages of Dogri-Kangri. Most people of Himachal Pradesh profess Hinduism, but there are substantial minorities of Sikhs, Muslims, Buddhists, Jains and Christians. Kenji-Aryan is a very famous native from Himachal Pradesh

[Squall Leonhart]

They don't look close to Afghans. The only groups I have seen in this thread that have *some * people who look like Afghans are kashmiris, burusho, and kalash.

Many Afghans I have seen can easily pass as Punjabi.



^Put a turban on him and replace his name with Singh, yeah you get the idea.

[Shah-Jehan]

Santhal people

The Santal or Saontal (also spelled as Santal,Sontal or Sonthal), are a scheduled tribe of people indigenous to Terai of Nepal and India, who live mainly in Nepal and the Indian States of Jharkhand, West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Assam (part of the Tea Tribes). There is also a significant Santhal minority in neighboring Bangladesh, and a small population in Nepal (known as Satar in Nepal). They are one of the largest tribal communities in India. The Santals mostly speak Santali, a member of the Munda language family. They are one of the prime 'Adivasi' or aboriginal groups of the subcontinent.

[Shah-Jehan]

Kumauni people

Kumauni or Kumaoni are people from Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, India. In colloquial language, people of Kumaon are also referred to as "Pahari" though that is not a specific reference. They include all those who speak the Kumaoni language or any of its numerous dialects, living in the Almora, Bageshwar, Champawat, Pithoragarh, Nainital, Dehradun, Udham Singh Nagar, districts of Uttarakhand, India. Significant populations of Kumauni people exist in Uttar Pradesh especially in Lucknow, Allahabad, Bijnor, Kanpur, Assam, Bihar, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh; Maharashtra, the Punjab, and some regions of Himachal Pradesh like Solan and Nahan. Pahari Rajput/Kumauni people are also in Nepal and North eastern India (Sikkim, West Bengal, Assam and Manipur).

[Shah-Jehan]

Nyishi people

The Nyishi are one of the principal inhabitants of Arunachal Pradesh in north-eastern India. Nyi refers to "a man" and the word shi denotes "a being", which collectively means a civilized human being. They are spread across six districts of Arunachal Pradesh viz., Papum Pare, part of Lower Subansiri, Kurung Kumey, East Kameng, parts of Upper Subansiri, the recently created district Kra Dadi and are also found in the Sonitpur and North Lakhimpur districts of the neighbouring state of Assam. Their population of around 300,000 makes them the most populous tribe of Arunachal Pradesh, closely followed by the combined tribes of the Adis and the Galos who were the most populous in the 2001 census. The Nyishi language belongs to the Sino-Tibetan family, however, the origin is disputed.

[Shah-Jehan]

Kutchi people

The Kutchi people (Gujarati: કચ્છી) traditionally hail from the Kachchh/Kutch Region of the western Indian state of Gujarat. The Kutchi language is regarded as a dialect of Sindhi, but is written in the Gujarati script due to Kutch being a part of modern-day Gujarat. Kutchi people are prominent as merchants, and their presence as a business community is seen all over the Indian Subcontinent as well as abroad. Culturally, Kutchis are an intermediary population between the Gujaratis and the Sindhis,
and the members of the ethnic group are Hindu, Muslim and Jains. The Kutchi community is found in both India and Pakistan, as well as abroad in Africa, North America,
the Near East And Europe.

[Kamal900]

Sindhi people

This guy can easily pass for Arabian

He looks very Syrian or Druze to me.

As a group, they look very Levantine(the girl on the right looks more Iranian but can pass).

[Thambi]

wow amazing collection. I wonder why this shah jehan guy isn't active anymore.

The Tamil people (/ˈtæmɪl/; Tamil: தமிழர், tamiẓhar (singular) ? [t̪ɐmɪɻɐɾ], or Tamil: தமிழர்கள், tamiẓarkaḷ (plural) ? [t̪ɐmɪɻɐɾxɐɭ]), also known as Tamilar, Tamilans or simply Tamils, are an ethnic group who speak the language Tamil as their mother tongue and trace their ancestry to southern India and northern Sri Lanka.[6] Tamils, with a population of around 76 million and with a documented history stretching back over 2,000 years, are one of the largest and oldest extant ethnolinguistic groups in the modern world.[7] Tamils constitute 5.9% of the population in India, 15.3%[note 1] in Sri Lanka, 6% in Mauritius,[14] approximately 7% in Malaysia and 5% in Singapore.

Tamil People

[Borealis]

wow amazing collection. I wonder why this shah jehan guy isn't active anymore.



Tamil People

Would I pass here easily

[Thambi]

Would I pass here easily

just as a brahmin or muslim. not regular castes.