Well I never told anyone to embrace anyone or anything, or championed any cause or the other. I am simply presenting history. That the people who built the Indus valley civilizations are relations of the central and south African San and Khoi Khoi; that their descendants and the descendants of millions of other African slaves and migrants who went to India are these very Dalits or Untouchables; and that they suffer under very similar racist and oppressive systems as Africans elsewhere in the Diaspora. While you say that these people do not see themselves as Africans, that may be a generalization as there certainly are groups of Dalits with a strong political presence who are quite forceful about their African origins, and they have no problem seeing themselves as such.

Their situation is indeed complex as not only are they surrounded by a hostile anti- black majority with a caste system tied to religion that renders them inferior, but the history of their origins has been greatly obscured by the anti-black Hindu majority. However like those in the Caribbean and the Americas etc African surivalisms do remain even among those who were not isolated from the rest of the population. But for many of the tribal black Indians, their African origins are marked in their culture and not only in their phenotype.

It may appear that blacks in the Caribbean, Latin America and modern Africans may have much in common due to a common and recent colonial history, but as far as I see tribal black Indians who were isolated from the rest of the society, like those in the Andaman islands, in Fiji and in Papua New Guinea have more in common with indigenous African ways of life.

I live in a country with a significant Indian presence including some Indians who would have been from the Sudra caste and also some of these black Indian Untouchables. Indeed many of them do not consider themselves African by any stretch of the imagination, but they are certainly aware of the prejudice they receive from their fellow Indians based on their black skin and low caste origins. As far as I see, whether they see themselves as Africans or not matters little. What matters is making sure information is available for anyone who wishes to be better informed, including these Indians who suffer under the racist oppression of caste but in truth may know very little about their own origins.