[1] Dravidian speakers form the majority of the population of South India and are natively found in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan,[2] Bangladesh,[3] the Maldives, Nepal,[4] Bhutan[5] and Sri Lanka. [25] They were preceded by a mixture of AASI (Ancient Ancestral South Indian, i.e. [14][15][16][17][18] According to Narasimhan et al. [73] Parpola led a Finnish team in investigating the inscriptions using computer analysis. Both southern and northern groups are most similar to each other, but also show deep relations to populations of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The French Egyptologist, Jean Francois Champollion, armed with the long inscription in three scripts, one of them being known - Greek - he managed to decipher the hieroglyphic script of Egypt. Gandhari was from Gandhar (Afghanistan), Madri was from Madrid (Spain); Muni Pulestin went to the area now known as Palestine and Rishi Tamas settled on the banks of the river Thames; Russia was Rishi-alaya, and America was Amarice-puri; the river Mekong was Ma Ganga, and river Nile was Nil Ganga; the scriptures clearly, have indicated that the Sapt-Rishis went to every corner of the world to transmit knowledge and help the communities. WebCommis in tamilnadu: play regional divisive h@te politics propaganda of Tamil vs non Tamil But worship foreign philosophers like Marx, Stalin Create false narrative about Aryan vs Dravidian Brainwash generations and isolate Tamilnadu from rest Aryans were fair skinned, tall, and spoke a different language from Dravidians who were dark, short and spoke Dravidian language. "[10] The most noteworthy scholar making such claims is Asko Parpola,[18] who did extensive research on the IVC-scripts. The subject for discussion -Aryan vs Dravidian- has special significance for the Europeans, that is further highlighted by the last Text Book Revision conducted by the CA Educational Authority. Thus, to render the phrase he is a gentleman in Telugu, one combines yana he + peddamanii a gentleman; Telugu has no verb corresponding to to be in English. Original Sanskrit scriptures are only found in India. But, now, the termite infested cupboard was falling apart. The changes were made to the education system - to replace the old and ancient system of education and her culture, thus break the very backbone of this nation as Lord Macaulay predicted. Proto-Dravidian may have been spoken in the Indus civilization, suggesting a "tentative date of Proto-Dravidian around the early part of the third millennium",[7] after which it branched into various Dravidian languages. The native Indians had been conquered without great difficulty by the war-like Aryans, and there-after, the Aryans had been the rulers and masters of tens of millions of docile little brown men'. Revision - Guess-work needs to be discarded and correct history needs to be taught in schools. What meaning would you derive from these information? There were two numbers in Proto-Dravidian, singular and plural. In Prof. M Witzel has shown great courage in agreeing this change. Dravidian is a regional race from the south of India. There are around 14 Aboriginal tribes mentioned in ancient texts, one of them being Dravidas. The historian, Van Loon,wasn't the only one to have indulged in tracing the journey of this magical race, who in the end got the name Aryan. A C Bouquet, in his book, Comparative Religion (Pub. The authors found that the respective amounts of those ancestries varied significantly between individuals, and concluded that more samples are needed to get the full picture of Indian population history. Re. Apparently all the forms were in use dialectally in Proto-Dravidian. [30] Another inscription of about the same time in Nagarjunakonda seems to refer to a Damila. One of the events mentioned in the Mahabharat is Lord Krishna's instructions to his Sarthi, to go to Dwarika to inform the citizens, of the imminent submergence of the city due to rise in sea-level. In this particular case, the horse was injured in the rib-cage, and the instructions are being given to the expert - vaidya, to treat the 34 ribs with care for its recovery. All other higher numerals are borrowed from Sanskrit. Telugu has a nativelike form wyi 1,000, but its etymology is uncertain. [51], Recent studies have shown that the proto-Dravidians were descendants of neolithic farmers, who are suggested to have migrated from the Zagros Mountains in modern-day Iran to northern South Asia some 10,000 years ago. In History of the World, edited by W N Weech (Odhams Press- Pub. Many genetecists and other scientists including Inians deny the theory of Aryan invasion in India.The author opinion is based on 19 century tradition of British imperial science.Read Out of eaden by Oppenheimer. I must inform you, Ben, that Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT), has become part of the subject 'history', and is being taught to children all over the world. In the Buddhist Jataka story known as Akiti Jataka there is a mention to Damila-rattha (Tamil dynasty). [25] According to Narasimhan et al., this mixed population, which probably was native to the Indus Valley Civilisation, contributed significantly to both the ANI and ASI, the formation of which took shape during the 2nd millennium BCE. Such cattle are named Zebu (Bos Indicus). [14][15][16][17][18] Their origins are often viewed as being connected with the Indus Valley civilisation,[10][18][19] hence people and language spread east and southwards after the demise of the Indus Valley Civilisation in the early second millennium BCE,[20][21] some propose not long before the arrival of Indo-Aryan speakers,[22] with whom they intensively interacted. These conquerors were not builders. The dhoti is generally white in colour, and occasionally has a border of red, green or gold. Early Dravidian influence accounts for several of the innovative traits in Indic better than any internal explanation that has been proposed. It is pointed out that 'the word Aryans was brutally used by Hitler during world war second to attain exclusion of Jews and other ethnicities (2nd para). Therefore, every person of the Aryadesh had a right to be an arya person. The lungi consists of a colourful checked cotton cloth. [9], The origins of the Dravidians are a "very complex subject of research and debate. Dravidian languages use subjectobjectverb (SOV) word order; the verb occupies the final position in a sentence, a characteristic that is also true of the Indo-Aryan languages. The corruption is an outright mismanagement of the nation's business. Up, Drowsy Driving vs. [74], Paleoclimatologists believe the fall of the Indus Valley Civilisation and eastward migration during the late Harappan period was due to climate change in the region, with a 200-year long drought being the major factor. This designation is not restricted by the shade of the skin, knowledge, wisdom, wealth, profession nor sex. Tens of thousands of hand-written Sanskrit scripts were collected from all over India and sent to various European locations for study. However Raghavan and Bulbeck et al., while noting the distinct differences of South Asian from Andamanese and Australoid crania, explain that this is not in conflict with genetic evidence showing a partial common ancestry and genetic affinity between South Asians and the native Andamanese, stating that "the differences may be in part due the greater craniometric specialisation of South Asians compared to Andamanese". However, these invaders (AIT), in addition to carrying out destruction and creating slavery, have provided Vedic history and culture and Vedic language Sanskrit, with a Caste System as the 'Jewel in the Crown'. Aryans are Indo-European, but Dravidians are not. As these tribals may have moved away from the concerned places thousands of years earlier or may have been Hinduised by adopting HIndu religion and names, the phenomenon is barely understood today. Each of the major Dravidian languages has its own film industry like Kollywood (Tamil), Tollywood (Telugu), Sandalwood (Kannada), Mollywood (Malayalam). It must be, because we are Aryans the Barbarians, and Dravidians the Squat Creatures! Dravidian grammatical impact on the structure and syntax of Indo-Aryan languages is considered far greater than the Indo-Aryan grammatical impact on Dravidian. The word 'caste' needs to be explained further. (2009) principally reflects gene flow from Iran and the Middle East". Stupid me, they were from a planet out in space! [96] Sivan was also seen as the supreme God. [17] It is one of the earliest sites with evidence of farming and herding in South Asia. Many villagers have only a lungi as their article of clothing. These languages are Telugu, Malayali, Kannada and Tamil. Many literary works were composed in Carnatic style and it soon spread wide in the Dravidian regions. The obvious questions would be, whether the river was live and flowing as described in the Rigveda in 1000 BC, or even when the Aryans descended upon India in 1500 BC? [44] Renfrew and Bahn conclude that several scenarios are compatible with the data, and that "the linguistic jury is still very much out. My response is based on today not the past. Past is where we came from but we live today and tomorrow. Other than the languages spoken, fundamental India was chiefly aboriginal prior to the Aryanisation of India. Kanakadasa is another notable Carnatic musician who was Purandaradasa's contemporary. [24], According to a large craniometric study (Raghavan and Bulbeck et al. The British adopted different tactics, resulted in the now famous policy of Divide and Rule. The final element (predicate) in a sentence can be verbal or nominal. They were fond of horse-racing, chariot-racing, dancing, gambling and wrestling. [15][41] In the 1990s, Renfrew and Cavalli-Sforza have also argued that Proto-Dravidian was brought to India by farmers from the Iranian part of the Fertile Crescent,[14][42][43][note 1] but more recently Heggerty and Renfrew noted that "McAlpin's analysis of the language data, and thus his claims, remain far from orthodoxy", adding that Fuller finds no relation of Dravidian language with other languages, and thus assumes it to be native to India. The Dravidian languages have a decimal system. The study further showed that the native South Asians, north and south, form a unique group distinct from "Australo-Melanesians". The author misses out on the tribal factor for reasons better known to him. One should be proud of one's province and be respectful to the people of other provinces. Rig-veda, Book 1, Hymn 162, Verse 18 - Ashwamedh Yagna, to honor a horse, after serving the ruler, was being carried out. [30] In the Sanskrit tradition the word drvia was also used to denote the geographical region of South India. Dravidian languages are considered to be distinct from those defined as Aryan. WebThe features of the people of this race are a broad head? The numerals 1 to 5 and 8 to 10 consist of one of several roots plus one of three fused neuter morphemes, *t, *tt, or *k, thus *on-tu (roots *r/*or-, *on-) 1; *ir-a-u (*r/*ir-V) 2; *muH-n-tu/*m-n-tu (*muH-/*m-) 3; *nl-n(kk)u (*nl/*nal-V-) 4; *caym-tu (*cay-) 5; *e-u (*e-) 8; *paH-tu (*paH-) 10. WebWith the Aryan race concept was contrasted the idea of what was called the Dravidian race equally erroneous as a racial term. [30] In Amaravati in present-day Andhra Pradesh there is an inscription referring to a Dhamila-vaniya (Tamil trader) datable to the 3rd century CE. [94], Chola-style temples consist almost invariably of the three following parts, arranged in differing manners, but differing in themselves only according to the age in which they were executed:[121], Besides these, a south Indian temple usually has a tank called the Kalyani or Pushkarni to be used for sacred purposes or the convenience of the priests dwellings for all the grades of the priesthood are attached to it, and other buildings for state or convenience. You probably have umpteen nice things in you. Medieval Tamil guilds and trading organisations like the Ayyavole and Manigramam played an important role in the southeast Asia trade. It is suggested that the language was spoken in the 4th millennium BCE, and started disintegrating into various branches around 3rd millennium BCE. The Religion of the Agamas. The name Dravida is the name of the people speaking a At the most,the word refers to group of people who have similar societal way of living, in contrast to the opponents, who were called 'Anarya'. They are also found in large numbers in Middle East countries, the Americas and Australia. Other gods mentioned were Mayyon and Vaali, now identified with Krishna and Balarama, who are all major deities in Hinduism today. The megaliths of Hanamsagar, Vibhulitihalli in Karnataka, Asota in Pakistan, Pankri Barwadih and Rola in Jharkhand confirm that on contrary to popular notions these sciences were known to the tribals thousand of years prior to the Brahmin astronomers who built these primitive megalithic observatories to observe the transits of the celestial bodies as the sun much in the line of the World Heritage megaliths of Stonehenge, Newgrange and Callanish in UK (these too were erected for the same purpose). However, because Aryans were not able to force the evacuation of all Dravidians to Southern India, some became slaves of Aryans and still reside in Northern India. According to Narasimhan et al. He had no intention nor interest to take any further steps. The information below may be of some help to understand better. It also mentions that the league of Tamil kingdoms had been in existence for 113 years by that time. gamaprmya of Ymuncrya, Issue 160 of Gaekwad's Oriental Series. There are many different styles of sari draping varying across regions and communities. Max Muller and the historians were tied up in knots with the Christian chronology. The melting of the ice created lakes and filled the rivers, in turn, the water was emptied in the sea, raising the sea level. Thank you, Mr Shah, for appreciating. Even though, the the system originally was flexible, based upon one's inclinations (varna), it has in the last 175 years, crystallized into an inflexible system (by birth). Medieval South Indian guilds and trading organisations like the "Ayyavole of Karnataka and Manigramam" played an important role in the Southeast Asia trade,[27] and the cultural Indianisation of the region. Perhaps, you may like to answer, presently, why people of the same color are fighting and killing each other in the Middle East, Africa and Eurasia? All rights reserved Originally saris were worn bare, but during the Victorian era, women began wearing blouse (called a ravike) along with sari. These people, who invaded India and destroyed cities, now turned out to be a simple migratory one, settling down peacefully, in fact, what seemed to be destruction by the invading Aryans, turned out to be a simple act of nature - flooding. The British and the historians had interests, to rule India, as well as, to convert the Indians to Christianity. The sculpture dating from the Chola period has become notable as a symbol of Hinduism. HYDERABAD: The great Indian divide along north-south lines now stands blurred. Aryans and Dravidians have different accents. How can we blame anyone but ourselves, for the present situation, prevailing in the Indian societies - provincialism, caste and corruption? We don't know any better! These elements were incorporated later into Hinduism like the legendary marriage of Shiva to Queen Mntchi who ruled Madurai or Wanji-ko, a god who later merged into Indra. [45] Nowadays, Tamils, Malayalis, Telugus and Kannadigas make up around 20% of India's population. In the plural, South Dravidian languages have generalized the meaning of *aw-ar to human (men, men and women, or women), thus restricting the meaning of *aw-ay to nonhuman (nonhuman animates and things). All of them put their heads together and created a truly Indian Wild West story - From the West came the fair-skinned Aryans, riding in their chariots, whipping the dark-skinned Dravidians, pushing them further South, and occupying the vacant land.