"[The racial theory of caste] not only runs counter to the results of anthropometry, but it also finds very little support from such facts as we know about the ethnology of India. That the people of India were once organized on tribal basis is well-known, and although the tribes have become castes, the tribal organisation still remains intact."
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BR AMBEDKAR. The Untouchables, 1948, Writings and speeches vol 7. p. 303, and in Elst, K. (2010). The saffron swastika: The notion of "Hindu fascism". Chapter 3. I.252
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