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Huttons's Classification


J.II. Hutton has also based his racial classification of India on the Census findings. However, he does not recognise India as the cradle land of humanity and holds that all the races of India are constituted by foreign immigrants. On the basis of chronological order, he has recognised the following seven races in India:


 

1. The Negritoes2. The Proto-Australoids3. The Early Mediterraneans4. The Advanced Mediterranean5. The Alpines or the Pre-Vedic Aryans6. The Nordics or the Vedic Aryans1. The Negritoes2. Proto-Australoids3. Mongoloids4. The Mediterraneans