Thirteen million Indian aborigines remained uncivilized despite thousands of years of Hindu civilization

Evidence

The recent discussion about the excluded and partially excluded61 areas has served to draw attention to the position of what are called the aboriginal tribes in India. They number about thirteen million, if not more. Apart from the question of whether their exclusion from the new Constitution63 is proper or improper, the fact still remains that these aborigines have remained in their primitive uncivilised state64 in a land which boasts of a civilisation thousands of years old. Not only are they not civilised, but some of them follow pursuits which have led to their being classified as criminals. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 882