What is Veddoid type ?

[EvilDave]

What are their features ? and where is most common ?

[GeistFaust]

They tend to be a more archaic form of the Indid merged with a heavy Australoid component. There are two types of Weddoid types one which is the Western variant and the other is an Eastern variant which is merged with an Asiatic component(Mongoloid) making it the Melanesid type. They are usually found in the more Southern parts of India and even as far north as the periphery of Central India. Here are some pictures to illustrate what they look like.

[HungAryan]

They don't look Indian to me at all.
They look Sub-Saharan African (Negroid), to be honest, at least to me.

[GeistFaust]

They don't look Indian to me at all.
They look Sub-Saharan African (Negroid), to be honest, at least to me.

Then you better start on reading up on the racial variation of India because its very diverse. Its sort of ignorant to say they look Sub-Saharan when they look nothing like it. These are not the darkest and most Negroid looking of the Indian anthropological variants. The Negritos and other related people that occupy the far Southern reaches of Southern India, Adaman, and Nicobar Islands are much darker and Negroid looking. The Melanesid type seems to have a slight Paleo-Mongoloid variant infused in it and they call this type the East-Weddoid.

[Sikeliot]

They look more Australoid than Negroid by far. I don't see any similarity to Sub-Saharan Africans except the skin color.

[GeistFaust]

They look more Australoid than Negroid by far. I don't see any similarity to Sub-Saharan Africans except the skin color.

That is because they are basically an Australoidcized Indid. There is a difference between Australoids and Negroid types which are variant. Australoids can look generically like an extension of Negroid variants but this is not so.

[Agrippa]

Weddoid/Veddoid is in my opinion a race on its own, with genetic relations both to Europoid and Mongoloids, but which remained on the status of the more archaic jungle-inhabitants of South Asia, to put it that way, while having different types and transitions in all directions (transitional types to Europoid, to Mongoloid, to Negritid-Melanesid) and progressive as well as infantile developmental tendencies. The are not Negroid, but closest to the Australoid racial spectrum with some traits, while having, like mentioned, tendencies on their own, as well as regional and type/subtype relations to Europoid or Mongoloid.

Today, India is their centre, though they were and still are, just in a mixed form and lower frequency, very widespread.

In India they are more common in the lower castes and Central-Eastern-Southern tribals.

One of the main types of Weddoid, if you want so the moderate central type, is Gondid, this type can be seen in this examples of more typical Gondids from the Gondi people:

[Bakura]

It's maybe offtopic, but I'll ask... Are Gypsies Veddoid or Europid race or some blend between these racial types?

[Agrippa]

It's maybe offtopic, but I'll ask... Are Gypsies Veddoid or Europid race or some blend between these racial types?

They are mostly Europid (Nordindid, Indobrachid, Armenoid and different European influences), but have Weddoid admixture.

The more pure Gypsy clans, especially some, for example in Slovakia, have higher rates, while others have almost nothing.

So (Roma-Indian) Gypsies have significant Weddoid admixture, but it depends on the region, clan and individual in question, how much and whether it is significant in them.

I saw Gypsy families which were 50+ percent Weddoid and others which seemed to have close to zero.

Considering that many clans mixed significantly with Europeans and Near Easterners, this is an additional argument for saying they came from a more Southern and/or lower caste, rather than being high caste refugees like some claim.

Because the more pure-extreme Gypsy clans have quite often much more Weddoid than high caste Northern Indians.

[HungAryan]

Then you better start on reading up on the racial variation of India because its very diverse. Its sort of ignorant to say they look Sub-Saharan when they look nothing like it. These are not the darkest and most Negroid looking of the Indian anthropological variants. The Negritos and other related people that occupy the far Southern reaches of Southern India, Adaman, and Nicobar Islands are much darker and Negroid looking. The Melanesid type seems to have a slight Paleo-Mongoloid variant infused in it and they call this type the East-Weddoid.

I know that it's ignorant of me, but anyone with THAT dark skin looks Negroid to me.
And it's not just the skin colour. They also have wide noses, like negroes.


This one could easily pass for African American or something like that:


And this one could easily pass for Ethiopian or Somali: