South Asia: Peoples |
| Dravidian peoples are among the earliest citizens of the Indus Valley civilization (flourished circa
2500 B.C.). |
| Aryans arrive (ca. 1500 B.C.)
from central Asia destroying the Indus Valley civilization and driving
the inhabitants of that culture out (probably the Dravidians). |
| Peoples from Western Asia
(Arabian Peninsula, Iran) and central Asia arrive and settle from ca.
A.D. 1000 |
| Sino-Tibetan peoples live
in northeast India and in the Himalayas |
| Many tribal groups live in
remote hills and forests. |
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