India’s diverse culture all starts in its’ history. India’s long history starts off with the Indus Valley Civilization. Then the Harrapan Civilization conquered, and ruled. From the Harrapan Civilization to the British rule, there were many rulers, and empires that influenced India’s diversity.  We find in India diversity of various sorts. Some of its important forms are the following: racial, linguistic, religious and caste-based. Racial Diversity Herbert Risley had classified the people of India into seven racial types. These are (i) Turko-Iranian, (ii) Indo-Aryan, (iii) Scytho-Dravidian, (iv) AryoDravidian, (v) Mongolo-Dravidian, (vi) Mongoloid, and (vii) Dravidian. These seven racial types can be reduced to three basic types-the Indo-Aryan, the Mongolian and the Dravidian. B.S. Guha (1952) has identified six racial types (1) the Negrito, (2) the Proto Australoid, (3) the Mongoloid, (4) the Mediterranean, (5) the Western Brachycephals, and (6) the Nordic. NEGRITOS are the people who belong to the black racial stock as found in Africa. They have black skin colour, frizzle hair, thick lips, etc.  The Proto-Australoid races consist of an ethnic group, which includes the Australian aborigines and other peoples of southern Asia and Pacific Islands.  The Mongoloids are a major racial stock native to Asia, including the peoples of northern and eastern Asia. In India, the North Eastern regions have tribes of brachycephalic Mongoloid strain. A slightly different kind of Mongoloid racial stock is found in the Brahmputra Valley.  The Mediterranean races relate to the caucasian physical type, i.e., the white Unity and Diversity race.  The Western Brachycephals are divided into the following three sub-groups:  (i) The Alpenoid are characterised by broad head, medium stature and light skin, found amongst Bania castes of Gujarat, the Kayasthas of Bengal, etc.  (ii) (ii) The Dinaric- They are characterised by broad head, long nose, tall stature and dark skin colour, found amongst the Brahmin of Bengal, the non-Brahmin of Karnataka, (iii)  (iii) The Armenoid- They are characterised by features similar to Dinaric. The Armenoid have a more marked shape of the back of head, a prominent and narrow nose. The Parsi of Bombay show the typical characteristics of the Armenoid race   Finally, the Nordic races belong to the physical type characterised by tall stature, long head, light skin and hair, and blue eyes. In India, they are found in different parts of north of the country, especially in Punjab and Rajputana.   Linguistic Diversity This linguistic diversity notwithstanding, we have always had a sort of link language, though it has varied from age to age. In ancient times it was Sanskrit, in medieval age it was Arabic or Persian and in modern times we have Hindi and English as OFFICIAL languages. In the 1971 census on the other hand, reported 1652 languages in India which are spoken as mother tongue. Not all these languages are, however, equally widespread. Many of them are tribal speeches and these are spoken by less than one percent of the total population. Only 22 languages are listed in Schedule VIII of the Indian Constitution. Religious Diversity India is a land of multiple religions. We find here followers of various faiths, particularly of Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, among others. While Hindu and Muslim are found in almost all parts of India, the remaining minority religions have their pockets of concentration. Christians have their strongholds in the three southern states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh and in the north-eastern states like Nagaland and MEGHALAYA. Sikhs are concentrated largely in Punjab, BUDDHISTS in Maharashtra, and Jains are mainly spread over Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Gujarat, but ALSO found in most urban centres throughout the country. Explanation: