DISTRIBUTION OF MORPHOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIOURAL TRAITS AMONG FOUR ENDOGAMOUS GROUPS OF HARYANA

Indian population consists of around 4000 endogamous groups which are divided into castes and tribes providing excellent scope for genetic studies (Bhasin et al. 1992). Singh (1994) has identified 82 communities in Haryana. Although these communities are quite widely distributed yet only sporadic studies are available with regard to the distribution of ABO and Rh (D) blood groups in different endogamous groups of Haryana (Malik et al. 1998, Yadav et al. 1992, 1994a,b, 1997a,b,c, 1998, 2000, 2001, Yadav et al. 1992, Yadav et al. 2002, Yadav et al. 2008, Chhikara et al. 2011, Jain et al. 2013a,b, Yadav et al. 2013a,b, Jaggi et al. 2014). in the present investigation, an attempt has been made to study distribution of morphological and behavioural traits among five endogamous groups viz. Mallah, Kumhar, Banjara and Saini of Haryana as there was limited systematic study on them.