India Plate

[Paleophyte]

Thank you. Yeah, I know I'm crazy but, what puzzles me is the vast cultural and ethnic differences between the two plates which I don't need to prove.

No real puzzle. There's a big damned mountain range isolating them from the rest of the world. They might as well be an island in the middle of the Pacific.

Have a look at this map of the Indo-Aryan languages:



It's no coincidence that they all stop at the Himalya. The Indo-Aryan languages are a sub-group of the Indo-Iranian languages, which do span the Himalya. Shown here in blue, they're spoken throughout a broad portion of the Middle-East.



Those in turn belong to the Indo-European family of languages, shown in the map above in all the other lovely colours and spoken from Iceland through to the eastern coast of Russia. What they aren't related to is anything from Africa. By tracing the language you can show that the cultures in India are not related to those in Africa. They're much more closely related to Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran.

Yes the ocean floor became the Himalayas which is a huge divide. But, it appears these peoples where already there on both sides with the ability of complex language.

No, they weren't. They most likely migrated in from the fertile crescent (modern day Iran and Iraq) long after India had docked with Asia and the Himalya had been thrown up.