Western confusion over India

[Guest guest]

Refer to CIA "fact book", a product of no doubt much "intelligence

gathering"

 

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

 

 

Under ethnic categories for India, it gives . Indo-Aryan 72%,

Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% (2000)

 

For Pakistan , it is Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashtun (Pathan), Baloch,

Muhajir (immigrants from India at the time of partition and their

descendants) .

 

For Bangladesh, the breakdown is Bengali 98%, tribal groups, non-

Bengali Muslims (1998) .

 

For Srilanka, it is Sinhalese 74%, Tamil 18%, Moor 7%, Burgher,

Malay, and Vedda 1%

 

For Nepal, the figures are Brahman, Chetri, Newar, Gurung, Magar,

Tamang, Rai, Limbu, Sherpa, Tharu, and others (1995)

 

 

In spite all warnings from Indologists to the contrary that "indo-

aryan" and "dravidian" are language families, CIA thinks it is

ethnic categories; presumably so does the US Govt. But it happens

only for India. In other countries , ethnic category is based on

mother tongue

 

But a Tamil speaker in Srilanka is only a Tamil,but if he is India,

his ethnic category changes to Dravidian. So an Indian Tamil has

more in common with a Telugu speaking Christian in Rayalaseema by

virtue of being a Dravidian than with a Tamil in Jaffna, who is not

a Dravidian. A Bengali Muslim in Calcutta is an "Indo-aryan"

ethnic, ,and presumably he has more in common with a Gujarati Hindu

than he has with a Bengali Muslim in Bangladesh who is merely a

Bengali. A UP Muslim is an Indo-aryan, while a Sindhi Hindu in

Pakistan is not an Indo-aryan .

 

In the case of Nepal, ethnic categories are based neither on

language or linguistic group , but caste and tribal affliations

 

 

It is obvious , it is a CIA book of fantasies than facts