Why do Indians look so different from each other?

Question

Okay I'm talking about East Indians(not Native Americans).

Some Indians have light skin and almost look like Caucasians while some Indians have very dark skin and almost look like Black people.

Why do Indian people look so different if they evolved within the same region?

Answer 1

there are mainly two races in india. Indo-aryans in the north, and dravidians in the south. dravidians are dark. aryans are lighter skinned. then in the northeast there is a lot of asian mixing so people have a distinct look. and the people in the northwest have a distinct look due to the arab empires.

these regions, till today, have rarely mixed and married amongst each other.

Answer 2

yeah pretty much, and how much u stay out in the sun.

Answer 3

I don't think it has to do with the region in which they evolved because their are East Indians all over the world who look different from one another. As far as I can tell, the Indian race has the widest varying skin tones and hair textures. It has to do with genetics and alot of other scientific stuff.

Answer 4

While there are two "main" racesin India, there has actually  been quite a bit of mixing within the regions. While you may not see modern marriages between people from different regions, it is pretty evident that there was mixing in the past. Starting from the southest point in tamil nadu, where there is the largest population of dravidians, you have the darkest indians. As you go north from the south, you see the quite evident signs of mixing as skin tones get lighter and features of both races become evident. When you get the north, punjab, kashmir, again you see quintessential indo aryans who lack many of the dravidian characteristics.  But since india is such a large country, that has been known for many migrational shifts within it, there have been times where large portions of mixing of races of occured to create unique distinct looks in each different part of india, which is why you have people who can tell a typical punjabi person(north) from a tamil (south).

Answer 5

India is a county having all types of whithers depends on the whither each persons skin differ