Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Douglas, Thanks for looking. There are three very different sets of genes at work in that part of India, one is the typical plains Indian, the next is the equally typical mongoloid from Tibet/Ladakh and thirdly there are those that can pass off comfortably as European or Central Asian; and you are right, it probably is because all sorts of races have been going back and forth over this area since ancient times. The other theory, also possible, is that these people with European features are descendants of soldiers from Alexander the Great's army, who stayed back in India when he returned to Macedonia. Cheers Jayanand On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Douglas Barry<imra at iol.ie> wrote: > > "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote > >> I had been for a week's holiday to the town of Manali in the Himalayan >> foothills in mid June. This is the area where the ancient trading >> route from Tibet to the India passes through, from the Hindu valley of > > Snip >> >> photographs, all taken in Manali town are here: >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Manali/ > > Some interesting images there Jayanand and the colour works well. Looking > at > some of the people (priest, vegetable seller, etc.) it appears that they > don't look typically Indian, so I take it that's a legacy of the fact > Manali > is an historic crossroads for trade? > > Douglas > _________ > Douglas Barry > Bray, Co. Wicklow > Republic of Ireland > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >