Gulf arabs and indias?

Good question and I am not really sure. I can usually tell them apart but they can look similar. Some Indians are much darker than the Arabs but with some of the people in this video it is hard to tell them apart. I wonder if there was some degree of intermixing during the Arab invasions of India or if there is pre-Islamic connections in the past. If the Greeks traded with the Indians in antiquity then you know the Arabs also traded with them. Maybe you could research this and let us all know what you have found.

According to Y-DNA Arabs from the south are more distant from Indians apart from some from Qatar region who have some Haplogroup L.   They just look a little similar do having Caucasiod features and been dark, Arabs from the south like Yemen and Oman tend to look a little more similar to North Africans.

Originally posted by balochii ^ but uae, qatar, eastern saudis look very similar to indians, i lived there and i myself got confused, here in canada there are so many saudi students but they totally get confused with indians all the time They also have (straight hair) like indians, instead of the afro hair north africans have.

Saudis genetically slightly differ from Yemen and Oman, becuase they also mixed with Mesopotamians people.  Also Arabs were known to take many slaves and girls from their raids.  

Like I said, they have Caucasiod features and are dark.