Homo sapiens arrived first in the subcontinent about 65,000-50,000 years ago, and would have found the region already inhabited by other humans (likely Denisovan,who I would call human not simply hominin). ...Genetic scientists say that, today, almost all people in South Asia carry this ‘First South Asians’ ancestry in their genomes to varying degrees, with tribal groups possessing more of it than others.
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)00462-3
