"The racial interpretation of the of the notions light/white and dark/black... must be considered dubious. Where there is sufficient context for interpretation, we find that the notions can at least equally well be read as an ‘ideological’ distinction between the ‘dark/black’ world of the dāsas/dasyus and the ‘light/white’ world of the āryas.”"
January 1, 1970
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Historical_definitions_of_races_in_India