Caste produced a physically stunted populace, contradicting any eugenic value.

Evidence

A tree should be judged by the fruits it yields. If caste is eugenic, what sort of a race of men should it have produced? Physically speaking the Hindus are a C3 people. They are a race of pygmies and dwarfs, stunted in stature and wanting in stamina. It is a nation nine-tenths of which is declared to be unfit for military service. This shows that the caste system does not embody the eugenics of modern scientists. It is a social system which embodies the arrogance and selfishness of a perverse section of the Hindus who were superior enough in social status to set it in fashion, and who had the authority to force it on their inferiors. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 870

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• SHARE: The ‘nine-tenths unfit for military service’ statistic would interest anyone working on colonial-era racialized fitness assessments of Indians.