"It was already in the middle of the former century that Christian Lassen qualified the opposition of arya and dasyu or dasa as a contrast between different religions expressed by the age-old symbolism of black opposed to white and not as a contrast of dark complexioned to white coloured men."
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Maria Schetelich, in Visva-bharati Annals,new Series 3. THE PROBLEM OF THE ‘‘DARK SKIN” (KRSNA TVAC) IN THE RGVEDA
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