The racial idea reached yet more ridiculous proportions. 

Vedic passages speaking of their enemies (mainly demons) as without nose (anasa), were interpreted as a racial slur against the snub-nosed Dravidians. Now Dravidians are not snub-nosed or low-nosed people, and many Dravidians have as prominent noses as anyone in the North of India. The same Vedic demons are also described as footless (apada). Where is such a footless and nose less race and what does it have to do with the Dravidians? 

Moreover Vedic Gods like Agni (fire), who are called Aryans, are described as footless and headless (apada, ashirsha). Where are such headless and footless Aryans? Yet such"scholarship" can be found in prominent Western books on the history of India, some published in India, some published in India and used in schools in India and used in schools in India to the present day.

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