Description:
Indid subtype of Pakistan and Northwestern India, often associated with ancient Indo-Aryan migrations from the North. Common in Punjab, where it is typified by the Sikh and Punjabi and upper/warrior castes of the Doab. Also in Rajputs, Patharns, in Kashmir and the Hindu Kush. Extends to Southern India, where a similar Toda variety exists. In the North it is transitional to Indo Nordic.Physical Traits:
Light to medium brown skin, straight or wavy, brown or black hair. Tall, mesoskelic, ectomorph. Dolichocephalic, mildly hypsicranic, rather large-headed. Leptorrhine, long and often convex nose. Face high and narrow, lips relatively thick compared to other Indids, beard and body hair is stronger. The chin is weak.Literature:
Eickstedt (1920, 1934) defined it as Type 2 / North Indid (German: Nordindid) . Lundman (1967), Bernhard (1993) and Knussmann (1996) kept the name. Deniker (1900) and Vallois (1971) called it Indo-Afghan, Risley (1915) and Sarkar (1961) Indo-Aryan. Biasutti (1967) defined it as Indid proper, Hooton (1946) as a darker variant of Indo-Nordic. Some combined it with Iranid (Cole, 1965 and Vogel, 1974: Irano-Afghan; Cheboksarov, 1951: Indo-Pamirian).
