Classification of Giufrida-Ruggeri (1921):
Subsequent to Risley’s attempt many other anthropologists tried to analyze Indian people. Giufrida- Ruggeri made the following six-fold ethnic classification for the people of India:
1. Negrito: Veddas and some South Indian jungle tribes.
2. Pre-Dravidian orAustraloid Veddic: Santals, Oraons, Mundas, etc.
3. Dravidian: Tamil and Telugu speaking people.
4. Tall dolichocephalic element: Toda.
5. Dolichocephalic Aryan : (Homo dolichomorphus): Indo-Afghans, IndoIranians, etc.
6. brachycephalic leucoderm – (Homo Indo-European brachymorphus)- Armenians, Georgeanus, etc.
In contrast to H.H. Risley, Giufrida-Ruggeri had mentioned the Veddas and some South Indian forest dwelling tribes as possessing the Negrito element. He categorized the Indo-Afghans, Indo- Iranians, etc. under dolichocephalic Aryans. In his consideration, the brachycephalic leucoderms was a type, which included the Armenians and the peoples of Pamir and Georgia. He was inspired by the language based racial classification of his predecessor Sir H. H. Risley. But Giufrida-Ruggeri’s classification was too short to denote the enormous variation of physical types that exist among the peoples of India.