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Bold part: I was talking about the first few thousands of years when the supremacist Aryans made the local their virtual slaves, but mated with their women. The off springs were not allowed the status of their fathers, but were given that of their mothers, who were slaves.
This polygamy, mating and fathering continued for a few millenniums, when this phenomenon alarmed the Aryan masters. They were eager to maintain their purity. So, they imposed full restrictions on unequal marriages.
Only at this juncture, the caste system was introduced.
The Vedic people established cultural & political dominance over the locals of the Indus, there was no slavery. I haven't heard of any source that indicates that women were enslaved for labor or any other purpose. They may have been taken as wives or concubines, but that's not slavery. It's quite common for elites to marry women from among those they rule over, & the data I have read indicates that any child born to an upper caste father would belong to his or her father's caste.
There is no doubt the Aryans were eager to preserve their race. Preserving race isn't an issue, but the method they used to preserve it (the caste system) wasn't just. The caste system focuses on occupations, but there is no denying it had a slight racial reason for its existence. As I stated earlier, the Vedic people assigned themselves the positions of higher castes to consolidate their power.