I heard that brahmins who live in south asia were caucasians.Do they belong to the european ancestory?

Question

I have also noted that most of the brahmin people are white in color.

Answer 1

The Brahmins show quite a bit of Indo European ancestry. You get the odd blond kid in the higher castes even now, although it's very uncommon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2okSX2al...

The population movement is traceable from Iran and the countries slightly to the North and East of Iran, into Pakistan and Northern India/Pakistan.

Answer 2

The Brahmins moved into India from Kashmir and many are lighter in color than average Indians.  Farther back, all the Europeans, East Asians and Native Americans have their genetic roots in Central Asia, and still further back, all Asians and Australian Aborigines have their genetic roots in a tribe of African bush men.  So who's to say who's "Caucasian" and who's not?

Answer 3

Brahman is not about race or caste. There are many groups who call themselves Brahmans. There were occasions, when great acharyas like Prasuram, Ramanujacharya, Subramanya Bharati who made groups of the people from the lower castes into Brahmans for various reasons. There fore it is difficult to say that Brahmans are from the South Asia. May be you are referring to the theory that Aryans had come from Caucasian race or from the Europe etc. Brahmans do follow the Aryan tradition as a matter ritualistic practise and cultural tradition throughout India and racially they are not pure Aryans. For that matter, no group in India can claim racial purity.

Answer 4

India is often seperated into two ethnic origins Dravidians and indo-euroasian. This would suggest that two migrating groups of homo sapiens entered India at seperate times. And I think that this also reflexs the spread of religions in India, so yes northern hindus are caucasian in the broad sense of the word, that caucasians covers peoples from Europe, Western Asia, parts of the Indian Subcontinent and parts of North Africa.  But this is just one theory of historical migration and to try and divide human groups into simple categories does not give justice to the complex mix of groups that exists.

Answer 5

Well, Caucasian is a very loose term. It covers the  peoples of Europe,North Africa and the Asia from Turkey to Afghanistan.

South Asians belong to the Indian geographic race further divided into Indo-Aryan(70%) and Dravidian (25%) populations.

Some people do not consider Indians as Caucasian while

Some consider only Indo-Aryans (brahmins+nonbrahmins) as caucasian.

Brahmins are the uppermost caste in Hindu society and generally it is seen that skin colour is fairer in upper castes.

But this depends on which part of India you are in and due to intercaste marriages such divisions are becoming fainter.

The idea of European ancestry is too fanciful and racist.