Which is the oldest race in India?

Negritoes: This is the correct option. The Negritoes are thought to be India's ancient residents. They may have been the first racial tribe to arrive in India.
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Who were the first humans in India?

The earliest modern human fossil in the region is from the Sri Lankan cave of Fa Hien, dated to 33,000-30,000 years ago. (Sri Lanka was then linked to the Indian landmass, as sea levels were lower). In India too, there is abundant evidence of microlithic tools from around the same time.
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Which race is native to India?

Asian: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.
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Where did the first Indian come from?

The ancestors of living Native Americans arrived in what is now the United States at least 15,000 years ago, possibly much earlier, from Asia via Beringia. A vast variety of peoples, societies and cultures subsequently developed.
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Who is Aryan in India?

Aryan, name originally given to a people who were said to speak an archaic Indo-European language and who were thought to have settled in prehistoric times in ancient Iran and the northern Indian subcontinent.
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How old is India?

India: 2500 BC. Vietnam: 4000 Years Old.
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What race are Tamils?

The Tamil people, also known as Tamilar (Tamil: தமிழர், romanized: Tamiḻar, pronounced [t̪amiɻaɾ] in the singular or தமிழர்கள், Tamiḻarkaḷ, [t̪amiɻaɾɣaɭ] in the plural), or simply Tamils (/ˈtæmɪls/), are a Dravidian ethno-linguistic group who trace their ancestry mainly to India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, union ...
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Are Dravidians indigenous to India?

The origins of the Dravidians are a "very complex subject of research and debate." They may have been indigenous to the Indian subcontinent, but origins in, or influence from, western Asia have also been proposed.
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Who is first born in India?

The first person in India was Manu.
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When did Arya come in India?

The Arya were central Asian Steppe pastoralists who arrived in India between roughly 2000 BCE and 1500 BCE, and brought Indo-European languages to the subcontinent.
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Who ruled India before Mughals?

The Ghaznavid Empire gradually moved in and conquered India and later the Delhi Sultanate, a Delhi-based Muslim kingdom that stretched over large parts of India from 1206–1526, the fall of which eventually led to the Mughal rule in the country.
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Are Dravidians not Hindu?

The early Dravidian religion constituted a non-Vedic form of Hinduism in that they were either historically or are at present Āgamic. The Agamas are non-vedic in origin and have been dated either as post-Vedic texts or as pre-Vedic compositions.
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Is Krishna a Dravidian?

According to Vedas, Lord Krishna is a dark-skinned Dravidian god.
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Are Rajputs Aryans?

Vaidya and R.B.Singh write that the Rajputs had originated from the Vedic Aryan Kshatriyas of the epics - Ramayana and Mahabharata. Vaidya bases this theory on certain attributes - such as bravery and "physical strength" of Draupadi and Kausalya and the bravery of the Rajputs.
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Which is the sweetest language in the world?

If a message circulating on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook is to be believed, Bengali has been voted the sweetest language in the world. Conducted by Unesco, the vote ranks Spanish and Dutch as the second and third sweetest tongues respectively.
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Who created Tamil?

According to Hindu legend, Tamil or in personification form Tamil Thāi (Mother Tamil) was created by Lord Shiva.
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Are Tamils from Africa?

Tamil people form the majority of Indian immigrants who came from India to Natal, South Africa, from 1860 onwards.
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Are Sri Lankans Indian?

They are two different countries.

Although India offers a large selection of different curries, Sri Lanka has their own unique curries as well that are specific to the island.
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Who started Hinduism?

Unlike other religions, Hinduism has no one founder but is instead a fusion of various beliefs. Around 1500 B.C., the Indo-Aryan people migrated to the Indus Valley, and their language and culture blended with that of the indigenous people living in the region.
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Who found India?

Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama becomes the first European to reach India via the Atlantic Ocean when he arrives at Calicut on the Malabar Coast. Da Gama sailed from Lisbon, Portugal, in July 1497, rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and anchored at Malindi on the east coast of Africa.
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Who first invaded India?

The first group to invade India were the Aryans, who came out of the north in about 1500 BC. The Aryans brought with them strong cultural traditions that, miraculously, still remain in force today. They spoke and wrote in a language called Sanskrit, which was later used in the first documentation of the Vedas.
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Is Shiva an Aryan God?

Shiva was a non-Aryan god and was worshipped by the ancient Indians before the advent of the Aryans. Shiva, however, soon found a place in the Aryan pantheon. He is mentioned in the Vedas as Rudra, becoming known later as Shiva or Mahadeva (Great God).
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