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The fourth major group were the Shudras, non-Aryan servants and peasants who were denied the opportunity to read or listen to Vedic hymns and accounted for more than half the population.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Elements of the Mahabharata indicate that a blending of cultures was taking place between Aryan and non-Aryan peoples.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

After the Austrian Anschluss, Franz began to feel Nazi pressure because of his non-Aryan wife, quietly abdicated because he was getting "too old."

From Time Magazine Archive

As it does not appear in the earliest literature, it has been supposed to have come into Aryan worship from non-Aryan tribes.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris

Taonla.—A small non-Aryan caste of the Uriya States.

From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)