Telingan, or Indian race, was a term in British Victorian racial science, now discredited, referring a subset of the inhabitants of "the eastern parts of India, especially about Calcutta, several isolated spots in other parts of India, and the east coast of Madagascar" with "dark complexion, (best imitated by a mixture of red and black) the skin is soft, the features are like those of Europeans, hair straight and fine, and the beard copious":