The point of the entire discussion was that Aryan and Dravidian are language categories, not races.
And it took you 506 messages to find out.
There are many who are claiming otherwise here. Even now.
You would be infinitely better off reading and improving your knowledge than ticking off boxes.
You are right. I am doing precisely that.
Got myself a book last weekend and reading through that.
One of the thing that struck me from the book is the very precise "markers" of the Indian leftist historians (who have had a completely free run of the academia and discourse so far), their motives, their pet peeves etc. This was also aligned to my own observations from the field.
I was talking of those tick boxes here.
As an example, one of the eye opener for me was when I saw the extremely vitriolic reaction to Rajiv Malhotra's initiative to write about Indian contributions to Science. You would think that should be innocuous and could not harm anyone and should not invite the kind of reaction it did.
That it did so should tell us about the agendas at work.
Then we can see the extreme vitriol (many times it is just so absurd and comes out of nowhere) against "Hindu fanatics", "Hindu fundamentalists", "Brahmins" that is just amazing and seems almost unhinged.
I find it amazing that a person with such great scholarship (that I can never hope to match) should allow himself to be driven by such agendas and by such extreme vitriol.