The dataset on Pakistan and adjacent Indian regions combines two anthropological studies, an earlier one from the 1880s and a later one from the 1970s. Both document heights in the Kashmir and north-western Himalaya region. Social selectivity is not present (anthropological sampling), but there is strong regional selectivity due to concentrating in the north-east of Pakistan and the north-west of India. The periods covered in this dataset are the birth decades from the 1840s to the 1900s. The latter dataset is small.