[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958) › c8.198 # Shudras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c8.198 Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 c8.198 - **Language:** English ### [c8.198](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c8.198) ¹ The Dahae may have been closely allied in race and language with the Iranians, but this is not very clearly proved. (VI, i, 357, fn. 20). Zimmer calls the Daoi or Daai of Herodotus, i, 126, a Turanian tribe. (Ibid.) - [Previous: c8.197](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c8.197) - [Next: c8.199](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c8.199) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c8.198](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c8.198) · Pramāṇa