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The Rig Veda says: "Blowing away with supernatural might from earth and from the heavens the swarthy skin which Indra hates." This ancient collection of Sanskrit poetry contains a number of racially charged passages. Is this a description of the world's earliest recorded racial conflict?

by /u/Smash_all_States in /r/AskHistorians

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