Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. Asian
6. South Asian
7. Indian (South Asian)

Anotations

Scope note:

The styles and cultures of various indigenous tribal populations located within the Indian subcontinent and retaining their ancient African/Austric languages, generally limited to those whose ancestral presence in the area precedes the Dravidian settlement of ca. 2000 BCE and various Aryan (Indo-European) invasions ca. 1500 BCE. In the constitution of India, in 1950 most of these groups were listed as Scheduled Tribes, targeted for social and economic development; used as the general term for the Indian scheduled tribes, who are usually descendents of these people.