GK
INDIAS HERITAGE
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Question
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Nishad
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Kirat
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Nordic
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Australoids entered India from South East Asia. They had dark skin tone with a broad head, flat nose, and short height. Tribes like Kol, Munda, Khasi, tribes of Nicobar and Myanmar have similar origins to the Australoids. The Aryans called them ‘Nishad’.
Detailed explanation-2: -Period of the settlement of Aryans in India is 2000-1500 BC. Aryans first settled in the regions of Sindh and Punjab.
Detailed explanation-3: -Huxley (1870) described Australioids as dolichocephalic; their hair as usually silky, black and wavy or curly, with large, heavy jaws and prognathism, with skin the color of chocolate and irises which are dark brown or black.
Detailed explanation-4: -They said that Dravidians are the original inhabitants of the country, and they lived in all parts of the country till Aryans arrived in the country from the north and pushed Dravidians downwards in the country so that they remained confined in the south while the Aryans dominated the north and central India.