History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v3.c33.32

v3.c33.32

"The complexions of the people are dark in the eastern country, black in the southern, whitish (Pāndu) in the western and white in the northern. In poetical descriptions there is not much difference between the dark and the black complexions and the fair and the white. But the speciality is that in the eastern country the complexion of Rājput women and others may be fair or white; so also in the southern".