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"If this country has to be governed by aborigines,
all the offices must necessarily be filled by the original inhabitants—the Chamars,
the Kurumbas, the Bhils, the Panchamas, etc." (quoted in Irschick, 1971, 154). As far
as some in the South were concerned, it was a "misrepresentation to say that the Brahmins
belong to the same Indian nation as the non-Brahmins while the English are
aliens. . . . Indian Brahmins are more alien to us than Englishmen" (Raghavan, quoted
in Irschick, 1971, 158).
In short, although the excesses of Aryan ideology in Europe would be hard to surpass,
the Indians themselves were not averse to attempting to extract political mileage
from the Aryan theme to support their own agendas. Indeed, in about 1920, one Visnu
Sakharam Pandit filed an immigration court case in America, claiming to be a European.
Since immigration was closed to Asiatics at that time, the ingenious fellow said
he could prove that he was a Brahman and therefore a fellow Aryan. The argument was
even entertained for a while, until a California court ruled that the Aryan invasion theory
was precisely that: just a theory, and therefore not citable as credible proof for immigration
purposes"
