Aryan and Dravidian Races

The idea of Aryan and Dravidians races is the product of an unscientific culturally biased form of thinking that saw race in terms of color. There are, scientifically speaking, no such things as Aryan or Dravidian races. The three primary races are the Caucasian, the Mongolian and the Negroid.

Both the Aryans and Dravidians are related branches of the Caucasian race, generally placed in the same Mediterranean subbranch. The difference between the so-called Aryans of the north and Dravidians of the south is a difference in skin color, but this is not a racial division. 

Biologically both the North and South Indians are of the same Caucasian race, only when closer to the equator the skin becomes darker, and under the influence of constant heat the bodily frame tends to become a little smaller. 

While we can speak of some ethnic differences between North and South Indian peoples, they are only secondary.

For example, if we take a typical person from Punjab, an other from Maharashtra, and a third from Tamil Nadu we will find that the Maharashtrians generally fall in between the other two in terms of build and skin color. We see a gradual shift of characteristics form north to south, but no real different race. 

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