Free ranging dogs of India (Canis sp.)

This healthy specimen was sleeping on a warm road near the beach.
Slim, white through yellow to dark brown. Up to one metre long and up to 0.7 metres tall.
They are found everywhere in fringe urban, rural areas.. always near human activity.
The dogs near the beach had developed a clever trick of digging a deep hollow in the sand to sleep in at night. In the mornings you can see hundreds of them. Luckily the beach was very wide around this area.
The free-ranging dogs of India seemed to me to have some of the characteristics of Australian dingo. Something in the way they move, fold, lie down, howl in big groups, and their colour and proportions and sleek head shape. They may have a recent common ancestor..... ?
"In India, the local landrace, known as the Indian pariah dog, has been estimated to have existed for perhaps 14,000 years or more. Part of the urban population consists of mongrels or mix-breeds–descended from pure-breed dogs that have been allowed to interbreed with pariahs. Urban India has two features which create and sustain street dog populations: Large amounts of exposed garbage, which provide an abundant source of food, and a huge population of slum and street-dwellers whose way of life includes keeping the dogs as free-roaming pets. For example, Mumbai has over 12 million human residents, of whom over half are slum-dwellers. At least 500 tons of garbage remain uncollected daily. Therefore, conditions are perfect for supporting a particularly large population of stray dogs. " - Wikipedia