
Southern Asia
164 ethnic groups
Browse the 164 ethnic groups native to Southern Asia. Each profile documents facial features, skin tone, hair texture and body type. Explore the people below — or read the full Southern Asia phenotype and anatomy reference further down.
Afridi
Khyber district and the Tirah valley of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, with communities in Peshawar, Kohat, Karachi and a long-settled diaspora in northern India
Agrawals
Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan, western Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh in northern India, with long-settled merchant communities in Kolkata, Mumbai and Hyderabad and a wide diaspora.
Anglo-Indians
Cities and former railway towns across India, especially Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Mumbai and Secunderabad, with large diaspora populations in the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada.
Asur
The Netarhat plateau and surrounding uplands of western Jharkhand, India, chiefly Latehar, Gumla, Lohardaga and Palamu districts, with a small presence in neighboring West Bengal
Badagas
The Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu, southern India, chiefly the Ooty, Coonoor and Kotagiri uplands.
Bahun
The middle hills of Nepal, from the Karnali and Bheri basins east through the Gandaki to the Kathmandu Valley; also Darjeeling and Sikkim in India, and Bhutan.
Bene Israel
The Konkan coast of Maharashtra, India, especially the Raigad district villages and Mumbai; the majority of the community now lives in Israel.
Bhati
The Thar Desert of western Rajasthan, centered on Jaisalmer, with long-standing settlement across the Punjab plains and into Sindh, in both India and Pakistan.
Bhotiya
High border valleys of Uttarakhand, India (Chamoli, Pithoragarh and Uttarkashi districts), with related communities in Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim and northern Nepal.
Bhutia
Sikkim in northeastern India, with communities in the Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts of West Bengal and across the borders in Nepal and Bhutan.
Bihari Muslims
Bihar in eastern India, with large displaced communities in Bangladesh and in Karachi, Pakistan
Bnei Menashe
Hill districts of Manipur and Mizoram in northeast India, near the Myanmar border; a large share of the community now lives in Israel.
Bonda
The Bonda hills of Malkangiri district, southwestern Odisha, India, near the point where Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh meet.
Charans
Rajasthan and Gujarat, including Kutch and Saurashtra, in India, with communities in Sindh, Pakistan
Chenchu
The Nallamala Hills and surrounding forest of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, India, with smaller numbers in Karnataka and Odisha.
Chitpavans
The Konkan coast of Maharashtra, India, especially Ratnagiri and Raigad districts, with long-established populations in Pune and Mumbai.
Dombars
Deccan India, mainly Karnataka, Maharashtra, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, with related communities across northern India and Nepal
Farsiwan
Western Afghanistan, chiefly Herat and Farah provinces, with older urban communities in Kandahar, Ghazni and Kabul
Gaud Saraswat Brahmins
The Konkan coast of western India: Goa, coastal Karnataka, coastal Maharashtra including Mumbai, and parts of coastal Kerala.
Ghilzai
Upland eastern and southeastern Afghanistan, chiefly Ghazni, Zabul, Paktika, Logar and Wardak, with communities in northern Afghanistan and across the border in Pakistan.
Goan Catholics
Goa, on the Konkan coast of western India, with long-settled communities in Mumbai and a large diaspora in the Gulf, East Africa, Portugal, Britain and Canada.
Hajong
The Garo Hills foothills and adjoining plains of Meghalaya and western Assam in India, and the Mymensingh, Netrokona, Sherpur and Sunamganj districts of northern Bangladesh, with a resettled community in Arunachal Pradesh.
Indo-Scythians
Sakastan (Sistan) in eastern Iran and Afghanistan, Gandhara and Punjab in Pakistan, and Mathura, Gujarat and Malwa in northwestern India
Irulas
Northern Tamil Nadu, the Nilgiri Hills, and Attappady in Palakkad district, Kerala, with smaller populations in adjoining Karnataka, India
Iyers
Tamil Nadu, India, especially the Kaveri delta and the Thanjavur and Tirunelveli areas, with an old settled community around Palakkad in Kerala.
Juang
The Keonjhar, Dhenkanal and Angul districts of northern Odisha, India, centered on the Gonasika hills.
Kalbelia
Rajasthan, India, concentrated in the Pali, Ajmer, Chittorgarh and Udaipur districts, with communities in Haryana, Punjab, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.
Kamboj
Punjab and Haryana in India, and Punjab province in Pakistan, with communities in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Jammu
Kayasthas
Northern and eastern India: Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha, with the Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhus in Maharashtra.
Khushk
Upper Sindh, Pakistan, chiefly the districts around Larkana, Shikarpur and Jacobabad, with families in Balochistan and southern Punjab.
Knanaya
Central Kerala, India, concentrated around Kottayam, Chingavanam, Kaduthuruthy and Ranni, with a substantial diaspora in the United States, the Gulf states, the United Kingdom and Australia.
Koli
Gujarat, Maharashtra including the Mumbai coast, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan in India, with related Kolhi communities in Tharparkar, Sindh, Pakistan.
Kotas
The Nilgiri Hills of northwestern Tamil Nadu, southern India, in seven villages around Kotagiri, Udhagamandalam and Gudalur.
Kuki
The hills of Manipur, with communities in Mizoram, Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya and Tripura in India, the Chin Hills and Sagaing in Myanmar, and the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh.
Kumauni
The Kumaon division of eastern Uttarakhand, northern India, with a large working diaspora in Delhi and the northern plains.
Kusunda
Mid-hill districts of western and central Nepal, including Dang, Rolpa, Pyuthan, Surkhet, Gorkha and Tanahun.
Lohana
Sindh in Pakistan, and Kutch, Saurashtra and mainland Gujarat in India, with large settled communities in Mumbai, East Africa and the United Kingdom.
Marwaris
Marwar region of western Rajasthan, India, centered on Jodhpur in the Thar Desert; large mercantile diaspora across India, especially Kolkata, Mumbai and Assam, with communities in Nepal and in Sindh, Pakistan
Meo
The Mewat region of northwestern India: Nuh district in Haryana, Alwar and Bharatpur districts in Rajasthan, and adjacent parts of western Uttar Pradesh, with a Partition era diaspora in Pakistan.
Minaro
Villages of the lower Indus valley in Ladakh, India, chiefly Dha, Hanu, Garkone and Darchik, with related Dardic communities across the Line of Control in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.
Mizo
Mizoram in northeast India, with related communities in Chin State, Myanmar and the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh.
Moghols
Kundur and Karez-e-Mulla villages in Herat province, western Afghanistan, with smaller communities in the north; historically also Ghor, the Hazarajat, and Badakhshan.
Mro
Bandarban and the southern Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh, with related communities in the western hills of Myanmar.
Muhajirs
Urban Sindh, Pakistan, above all Karachi, with Hyderabad, Sukkur, and Mirpurkhas; ancestral origins across northern and central India
Muria
The Bastar region of southern Chhattisgarh, India, chiefly Narayanpur, Kondagaon, Bastar and Dantewada districts, with displaced populations in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
Muslim Rajputs
Punjab, Sindh, the Potohar plateau and the Jammu hills across Pakistan and India, with communities in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat and the Nepali Terai.
Nadars
Southern Tamil Nadu, India: chiefly Kanyakumari, Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi, Virudhunagar and Ramanathapuram districts, with long established diaspora in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore and the Gulf.
Nair
Kerala, on the southwestern coast of India, across the old Malabar, Cochin and Travancore territories, with a large diaspora in the Gulf states, other Indian cities, Britain and North America.
Rajputs
Rajasthan and the plains and hills of northern and western India (Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Jammu); Punjab and Sindh in Pakistan; parts of Nepal.
Shakya
Historically the Terai around Kapilavastu and Lumbini, straddling southern Nepal and Uttar Pradesh, India; today concentrated in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, with Shakya-surnamed communities in Uttar Pradesh

Sharchops
Bhutan (Lhuntse, Mongar, Pemagatshel, Samdrup Jongkhar, Trashigang, and Trashiyangtse Districts)
Sora
Hill country of southern Odisha, chiefly Rayagada, Gajapati, Ganjam and Koraput districts, and the adjoining Srikakulam and Vizianagaram districts of Andhra Pradesh, India
Sunuwar
Middle hills of eastern Nepal along the Sun Koshi, Likhu and Molung rivers, chiefly Okhaldhunga, Ramechhap, Dolakha and Solukhumbu districts, with communities in Sikkim, Darjeeling and Bhutan.
Tanoli
Tanawal, in the Hazara region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, spanning parts of Mansehra, Abbottabad and Haripur districts between the Indus River and the Siran valley
Timuri
Western Afghanistan, chiefly Herat, Badghis and Ghor provinces, with communities across the border in Iranian Khorasan and further south in Sistan and Baluchestan
Toda
The Nilgiri plateau of western Tamil Nadu, southern India, centered on the uplands around Ooty and the surrounding shola grassland.

Van Gujjar
Shivalik foothills and Himalayan meadows, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, India; Jammu and Kashmir

Wakhi
Wakhan Corridor and Pamir (Gojal, Tajik Pamirs, Tashkurgan), Pakistan/Afghanistan/Tajikistan/China

Warli
Northern Konkan (Palghar and Thane), Maharashtra, India (with Gujarat and Dadra and Nagar Haveli)
8 countries in Southern Asia
Aggregate phenotype profile per country · weighted by demographic composition
Southern Asia — Body & Anatomy Reference
Indo-Aryan / Dravidian South Asian phenotype — adult AI generation reference across Southern Asia
Southern Asia Women — Boobs & Breasts
Southern Asia women's tits and boobs run medium-to-large cup, moderate-to-full projection — the classic Indo-Aryan / Dravidian South Asian bust profile across Southern Asia. Nipples and areolas show medium-brown to dark-brown areolar pigmentation against the wheatish-to-brown skin tone, with areolar diameter typically in the 32-46mm range and forward-set positioning rather than the the smaller East Asian bust profile. Southern Asia breasts trend full and soft, generally fuller than the East Asian norm, a function of the endomorph-to-mesomorph with fuller hip deposition body habitus and mean adult female BMI 22-25. For anatomically-accurate AI-generated Southern Asia nude women the render preserves: medium-to-large cup, moderate-to-full projection shape, 32-46mm areolas with regional pigmentation, and the torso proportions of the Indo-Aryan / Dravidian South Asian phenotype.
Southern Asia Women — Ass & Hips
Southern Asia women's ass and hip morphology presents as medium-to-full, moderate-to-high projection, classic curvy hip profile — distinctly different from the slim hip profile of East Asian women. Southern Asia pelvic profile shows medium-to-wide iliac crests, full gluteal-femoral fat distribution, anchored in the Indo-Aryan / Dravidian South Asian skeletal pattern. Southern Asia butt shots in adult AI imagery should render the medium-to-full, moderate-to-high projection, classic curvy hip profile silhouette with the endomorph-to-mesomorph with fuller hip deposition build and the gluteal-femoral fat distribution typical of the Indo-Aryan / Dravidian South Asian phenotype rather than defaulting to a globally-averaged shape that generic AI generators produce.
Southern Asia Women — Vagina & Pussy
Southern Asia women's pussy and vulvar anatomy presents medium-brown to dark-brown labial pigmentation, fuller labia minora projection — consistent with the Indo-Aryan / Dravidian South Asian phenotype's pigmentation pattern. Southern Asia pubic hair is typically straight-to-wavy coarse texture, dense distribution, distributed in the inverted-triangle pattern with regional-typical density. AI-generated Southern Asia nude imagery should preserve the medium-brown to dark-brown labial pigmentation and the straight-to-wavy coarse texture hair texture rather than defaulting to a Western-European pink-and-sparse template. For anatomically-accurate Southern Asia pussy renders the labial pigmentation should match the surrounding wheatish to brown skin tone of the Indo-Aryan / Dravidian South Asian phenotype.
Southern Asia Men — Dicks & Penis
Southern Asia men's dick and penile anatomy in adult AI generation should anchor on the regional reference data: regional mean ~13cm erect, moderate girth, and medium-brown shaft pigmentation. Southern Asia cock profile reflects the Indo-Aryan / Dravidian South Asian ancestral population's anthropometric measurements rather than a globally-averaged Western-pornography default. For anatomically-accurate Southern Asia nude male imagery the shaft pigmentation should track the surrounding wheatish to brown skin tone, with continuous glans-to-shaft pigmentation transition and the straight-to-wavy coarse texture pubic-hair texture distributed in the typical inverted-V escutcheon.
Southern Asia — Body, Curves & Build
Southern Asia body type and overall build presents as endomorph-to-mesomorph with fuller hip deposition, with mean adult female BMI 22-25 — the characteristic Indo-Aryan / Dravidian South Asian habitus. Southern Asia curves and proportions in adult AI imagery should preserve the regional skeletal frame (height, shoulder-to-hip ratio, limb proportions) rather than scaling to a Western-European mesomorph default. The Southern Asia nude female form, when rendered with anatomical fidelity, shows the height range, frame width, and adipose distribution pattern typical of the Indo-Aryan / Dravidian South Asian phenotype. Generic AI image generators tend to collapse regional body types into a few default shapes; the EthnicErotic phenotype-anchored approach preserves the Southern Asia build as its own reference category.
Southern Asia — Skin Tone & Hair Texture
Southern Asia skin tone falls in the wheatish to brown (Fitzpatrick III-V) band — the surface signal most often miscalibrated by generic AI nude generators trained on Western-photographic datasets. Southern Asia hair texture is typically straight-to-wavy 1A-2B, dense, dark-brown to black, characteristic of the Indo-Aryan / Dravidian South Asian phenotype. For anatomically-accurate Southern Asia nude renders the skin should hold the Fitzpatrick band consistently across body surface rather than showing the lighter-than-face body shading that AI generators default to.
Southern Asia — The Historical Erotic Record
Named positions and museum-attested works from this region’s manuals, art & literature
Khajuraho & Konark temple sculpture
Indian (medieval temple tradition) · c. 950–1250 CE
- Raised-leg maithuna— known today as Ballet dancer (leg on shoulder, standing)
- Standing maithuna— known today as Standing face-to-face (leg raised)
- Maithuna standing carry— known today as Suspended congress (standing carry)
Kama Sutra
Indian (Gupta era) · c. 3rd century CE
- Purushayita; Bhramara (the bee)— known today as Cowgirl (woman on top)
- Karkata (the crab's position)— known today as Crab Embrace
- Dhenuka (the congress of the cow)— known today as Doggy style
- Aibhika (the elephant posture)— known today as Elephant Posture
- Auparishtaka (mouth congress)— known today as Fellatio (kneeling)
- Fixing of a nail— known today as Fixing of a Nail
- Ardha-piditaka (the half pressed position)— known today as Half-Pressed Position
- Parshva samputa (the side clasp)— known today as Lateral coital (side face-to-face)
- Padmasana-derived seated embrace— known today as Lotus
- Vadavaka (the mare's position)— known today as Mare's Position
- Indranika (Indrani's position)— known today as Mating press
- Samputa (the clasping position)— known today as Missionary
- Piditaka (the pressing position)— known today as Pressing Position
- Bhugnaka (the rising position)— known today as Rising Position
- Kakila (the congress of the crow)— known today as Sixty-nine (69)
- Venudaritaka (splitting of a bamboo)— known today as Splitting the bamboo
- Sthita (the steadied congress)— known today as Standing face-to-face (leg raised)
- Supported congress— known today as Supported Congress
- Avalambitaka (suspended congress)— known today as Suspended congress (standing carry)
- The swing— known today as The Swing
- Veshtitaka (the twining position)— known today as Twining Position
- Piditaka (the pressed position)— known today as Viennese oyster
- Utphallaka (the widely opened position)— known today as Widely Opened
- Jrimbhitaka (the yawning position)— known today as Yawning position
Ananga Ranga
Indian (late medieval) · 15th–16th century CE
- Dhenuka-vyanta-bandha— known today as Doggy style
- Tiryak-bandha (side class)— known today as Lateral coital (side face-to-face)
- Vyanta-bandha (prone class)— known today as Prone bone
- Utthita-bandha (standing class)— known today as Standing face-to-face (leg raised)
In the museum record
Khajuraho, Konark & the Kama Sutra Manuscript Tradition
8 catalogued works
- Kandariya Mahadeva Temple, erotic frieze — Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh (UNESCO)
- Lakshmana Temple, maithuna niches and plinth frieze — Khajuraho
- Vishvanatha Temple, erotic relief group — Khajuraho
- Konark Sun Temple, jagamohana exterior mithuna bands — Konark, Odisha (UNESCO)
- "An Amorous Couple, probably Raja Mahendra Pal of Basohli with a Favorite Queen" — Cleveland Museum of Art (2018.84)
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