"If anthropometry is a science which can be depended upon to determine the race of a people ... [then its] measurements establish that the Brahmins and the Untouchables belong to the same race. From this it follows that if the Brahmins are Aryans the Untouchables are also Aryans. If the Brahmins are Dravidians, the Untouchables are also Dravidians"
— B. R. Ambedkar

January 1, 1970

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B.R. Ambedkar, Writings and Speeches (Bombay: Education Department, Government of Maharashtra, 1986-1990), Vol. 7, p.85 and 302-303 quoted in Koenraad Elst’s Indigenous Indians — Agastya to Ambedkar (New Delhi: Voice of India, 1993), p.410- 411. and quoted in quoted in Danino, M. (2009). A BRIEF NOTE ON THE ARYAN INVASION THEORY. PRAGATI| April-June 2009