Thomas Trautmann on Historical definitions of races in India

“The image of the "dark-skinned savage" is only imposed on the Vedic evidence with a considerable amount of text-torturing.”

“That the racial theory of Indian civilization still lingers is a miracle of faith. Is it not time we did away with it? The first effort to find direct evidence of the physical features of the Indian aborigines in the Sanskrit texts dating from the time of the Big Bang that brought Indian civilization into existence... boiled down to a matter of noses.”