ABSTRACT
This cultural heritage and biological diversity have been culprits in the relentless exploration and exploitation of India. Cultural diversity contributed to the tendency to isolate and subjugate subordinated communities, rather than absorb them, whenever different peoples at different times came in search of India's biological wealth, while biological diversity has nurtured exploration and exploitation of the country's ecological regimes. Of importance here is the structure of human populations, with variable levels of inbreeding, large families, large numbers of rare genetic mutations and disorders, and so forth.
