[olde north church]

Technically, Indians are of the "Caucasian" race. Those with lighter skin are descendants of Bactrian Greeks. Another term for caste is "varna", color.

[ZULU]

"Technically, Indians are of the "Caucasian" race. Those with lighter skin are descendants of Bactrian Greeks."

I thought that the darker skinned Indians were descendents of the Draviadian people like the modern Sri Lanakans. The lighter skinned higher castes are descedent from the Indo-Iranian Sanskrit invaders who took over India millenia ago.

Also, there was a western Islamic element under the Moguls much later. MOdern India is pretty much a hodge-podge of ethnic groups intermixed with the lower castes generally darker than the upper ones.