Historical definitions of races in India

Various attempts have been made, under the British Raj and since, to classify the population of India according to a racial typology.

Quotes

• The distinction between Aryan and un-Aryan on which so much has been built seems on the mass of evidence to indicate a cultural rather than a racial difference.
  • Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda (1971), quoted in E. F. Bryant, The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture (Oxford University Press, 2001), ch. 2