The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c10.120

c10.120

Thus we see again the isolation and diversification of various ethnic groups within the physical regions. Yet this continuous contact and miscegenation of the various racial groups in the country has helped the process of the emergence of an essentially Indian type. To quote Cohn, "In summary and to push the data to its furthest conclusion, we might say that, even though historically and contemporaneously there is a tremendous diversity physically, in India, there is, roughly speaking, a physical type which is Indian".