Is Indian one race?

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[–]TheJamesRocket 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Indians are most certainly NOT a single race. There is a very obvious difference between north and south Indians. The south Indians have much darker skin, and different facial structure: They are the 'untouchables' who live in poverty and squalor.

[–]PeddaKondappa 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

South India is significantly richer and more developed than North India, as a whole. Only the Delhi capital region and the areas around it are at a comparable level of development to South India. Here is a map showing the distribution of GDP per capita by state: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/NSDP_Per_Capita_of_Indian_States_and_UT%27s%2C_2018-19.png

Even dark-skinned Tamils are significantly richer than North Indians and Pakistanis.

[–]TheJamesRocket 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Question: Do you consider Mumbai to be part of south India, or north India?

[–]PeddaKondappa 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In modern history, the city of Mumbai is much more similar to North India, due to heavy immigration from North India and the use of Hindi as the predominant spoken language in the city. But Maharashtra as a whole is culturally more similar to South Indian states like Karnataka and Telangana than to North India.