( 1 ) INDIA is a land of religious and temples. The Anthropological Survey of India published the series "peoples of India" describing the Indian society, culture and traditions. Some of the main conclusions of the survey is as under: (i) Ours is one of the most diverse countries in the World. There are 4,635 ethnic communities in our country, each with its own hereditary features, language, dress, religious, customs, food habits, family relations and marriage rites. The basic lifestyles of these communities comprise the mainstream of the lives of our country's people; (ii) The people of India have emerged from miscegenation of several races like Proto-Australoid, Paleo-Mediterranean, caucasoid, Negroid and Mongoloid. Various nationalities involved are: Aryans, Persians, Greek, Huns, Arabs, Turks, africans, Mongolians and Europeans. There has been so much intermingling that nowhere can one find a 'pure' specimen of any nationality; (iii) It has been observed that difference in colour, height and build and other hereditary features are much more pronounced between members of the same community, as compared to those between members of different community; (iv) One of the biggest sour

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