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I will try again. Which scholarly work anywhere on the planet talks about an "Indian ethnicity" as you claimed? Is it a lie when I correctly state that India (the modern-day 73 year old entity) is one of the most ethnically, racially and linguistically diverse areas of the planet home to literally 100's of distinct ethnic groups?
The difference between say an Indian from Tamil Nadu and an Indian from Rajahstan is far greater than any difference in the Middle East, let alone the Arab world. Or the Mongoloid Northeastern provinces of India. India, in terms of ethnic and linguistic diversity, is a continent of its own. There is no similarly between Pakistan, which is composed of 4 main native ethnic groups, Bangladesh (1 main ethnic group = Bengalis), Nepalis or Sri Lankans (Sinhalese, Tamils and the Moors who claim Arab ancestry and supposedly are a mixture of Arab merchants/settlers and Tamils).
Muslims of Northern India are not a unified or even an ethnic group. They are a cultural/religious group. Hence your talk about culture and cuisine (lol). Those people belonged to a huge variety of ethnic groups etc. before they adopted the Muslim identity. Later they adopted Urdu/Hindi which is also heavily influenced by foreign tongues not native to Northern India that I already explained.
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From what I have read about this topic and my interaction with Pakistanis and Indians, there is no such thing as an "Urdu ethnicity" as @Naofumi is falsely claiming. For instance after speaking with some Pakistani users about this topic, in connection to another topic about Arabs in Deccan, Gujarat and Hyderabad etc., I was told by them that the Urdu-speaking Mohajirs of Pakistan have a very varied origin. Spanning from the Deccan, Bihar and many other areas of India. By no means where they ever an "ethnic group", more of a Muslim community that spoke/adopted Urdu.
I would appreciate if you could elaborate on that and explain why this individual is trying to turn Punjabis and Sindhis into "Indians".
You continue your drivel while posting maps of entire language families as your only counter? Is that all you got as a reply to my post above?
How abut you counter what I wrote instead of posting maps of entire freaking language families? I repeat, which every scholarly work on this topic confirms as well, there is no such thing as an "Indian ethnicity". Never was and never will be. It is a modern 73 year old nationality. There are 100's of vastly different ethnic and linguistic groups in India and in terms of diversity India is comparable to Sub-Saharan Africa.
North Indian Muslims, mostly low caste Hindu converts to Islam in the past 5 centuries (since the time of the Mughal empire) do not constitute an ethnic group and never did. Them adopting Urdu, in many ways a foreign language, does not turn them into some non-existing "Urdu" ethnicity. Urdu is a recent constructed language.
They are a cultural and religious group (Indian Muslims - even though Indian Muslims are as diverse as Hindu Indians - Muslims of Hyderabad and Bihar are very different people ethnically and racially), no doubt about that, but an ethnic group they are not!
My last post about this topic. You can continue posting maps of entire language families (LOL) and talk about some shared cuisine.
Next you will claim that English speaking Jamaicans who eat English Breakfast are the same as English speaking Brits who eat their English breakfast.
Hindus of every caste use it uniformly too in that orange region. Or ask Saudi university.
Why don't you prove this?
Speaking about universities, you would probably struggle to find even a single university in India that claims that a non-existent "Indian" ethnicity exists or ever existed, lol. Let alone universities from across the world. That is all that matters.