Previous literature, however, has focused largely on [44] Renfrew and Bahn conclude that several scenarios are compatible with the data, and that "the linguistic jury is still very much out. A comprehensive description of Parpola's work until 1994 is given in his book Deciphering the Indus Script. Anybody can answer that the color of the skin has nothing to do with one's intelligence, nor with the goodness of their hearts. Divorce vs. Talaq: What's the difference? Apparently all the forms were in use dialectally in Proto-Dravidian. [45] Nowadays, Tamils, Malayalis, Telugus and Kannadigas make up around 20% of India's population. We don't know any better! The word 'Dravid" implies to a person who is the knower(drasta) of knowledge (Vidya), or a person from whom the knowledge flows. It was impossible to cross, however, Vindhya had great respect for the Muni, he agreed to lower its heights to allow them to cross, and further agreed that he would stay at that height to allow them to return when the task is completed. If the historians had stopped at creating the invaders, it would have been accepted as normal event, as there were other intruders into India as well. Now the people decided to express gratitude to God, and started to build the Tower of Babel. A C Bouquet in Comparative Religion - They were people very much the type of our Scandinavian fore-fathers, hard-fighting, heavy-drinking folk. There was scarcity of white women, too, resulted in the traffic in women. The people of India, only 200 million in 1835, fully justified both words, and so confirmed by Lord Macaulay's statement to the British Parliament on Feb 2, 1835 (see elsewhere). [40] There are also hundreds of Dravidian loanwords in Indo-Aryan languages, and vice versa. The present population is greatly affected by the D & R Policy, the main basis being the AIT. Its modern conception is based solely on reconstruction. There are many interesting points raised in your letter, perhaps some others may help us with those. To-date, as the proverb goes - Truth is one, lies are many - not a single story has turned out with any substance. (Ref: Rigveda, Book ii, Hymn 41, Verses 16/17; Bk vii, 36/6; 95/1 to 6, 96/1). The changing conditions for survival in the last 175 years, brought self-interest in the fore-front, in turn created protective societies, that came to be known as 'caste system, which is a sickness in the body 'Hinduism'. White skinned people of the world are late comers. [8] South Dravidian I (including pre-Tamil) and South Dravidian II (including pre-Telugu) split around the eleventh century BCE, with the other major branches splitting off at around the same time. A C Bouquet, in his book, Comparative Religion (Pub. [31] Epigraphic evidence of an ethnic group termed as such is found in ancient India where a number of inscriptions have come to light datable from the 6th to the 5th century BCE mentioning Damela or Dameda persons. The study further showed that the native South Asians, north and south, form a unique group distinct from "Australo-Melanesians". No one, in fact, no historian has a right to indulge in guess-work about the country, to which they do not belong. Aryan and Dravidian are English words, concocted by the British rulers and their historians, to describe the ancient people of India. The largest Dravidian ethnic groups are the Telugus from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, the Tamils from Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Singapore, the Kannadigas from Karnataka, the Malayalis from Kerala, and the Tulu people from Karnataka. 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. However, their position was not dis-similar to that of the great king Akbar, who had a surprise waiting for him, when he saw one of his ministers, Birbal, cooking Khichdi, in a pot hung 6 ft. high above the fire! Dravidians have a different set of ethnic beliefs. David Frawley, a historian, too, expressed his amazement at the 'changing scenario' in the following words: 'There is a vast literature without archeology or even geography (home) for the Vedic Aryans, where as, vast archeology without literature for the literate Harrappans! Dr S R Rao, formerly the head of the Archaeological Survey of India, was free of the narrow vision of the past Indo-logists. The cattle from Eurasia, popular names being Longhorn and Hereford, have more or less plain back. The name Dravida is the name of the people speaking a The debate over the Aryan-Dravidian Distinction: Aryan Invasion and Migration Theory: This theory which has been floated by the British has attributed to the Aryan- Dravidian distinction and has been always been contested by the political class. In History of the World, edited by W N Weech (Odhams Press- Pub. [110] In the Sangam literature, there is an elaborate description of the rites performed by the Kurava priestess in the shrine Palamutircholai. This sari consists of a cloth wrapped around the waist and draped over the shoulder. [103] The king was 'the representative of God on earth' and lived in a "koyil", which means the "residence of a god". The SUN is the culprit providing darker skin to the people, living along the equatorial belt,to be able to tolerate the stronger rays. There may not be any archaeological proofs (none what so ever)which testifies the historicity of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana but that India was completely a tribal country can be easily be proved by the remains of the numerous prehistoric tribal megaliths that is scattered all over the country. [71] Knorozov's suggestion was preceded by the work of Henry Heras, who suggested several readings of signs based on a proto-Dravidian assumption. Natural justice demands that the blacks of the world should unite, form an International Draviodian League and regain the rule of the world. Moorjani et al. 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. It is the truth, when the praise comes from an enemy. The Dravidian languages have a decimal system. The origins of the Dravidians are a "very complex subject of research and debate." The linguists did not achieve success until Napoleon Bonaparte came along and conquered Egypt in 1779, brought home, a Rosetta Stone, that enabled the linguists to decipher the Egyptian script. Re. The subject matter was, by a simple stroke of pen, changed from Annihilation to Assimilation. In the Telugu phrase (superscript numbers denote matching Telugu and English words) rmayya1 pulin2 campu3 Ramayya1 killed3 a tiger2 can be shifted to create a nonfinite relative clause rmayya1campina2 puli 3 the tiger3 that Ramayya1 killed2, or pulini1 campina2 rmayya3 Ramayya3 who killed2 the tiger1.. The only matter, these historians are sure of, is that they belong to their race. that is " they come from south russia through iran" not "from iran", persians are a semitic people, original aryans were probabely an Ural-Altaic people since if u study the history u will see that almost every white immigration has begun from that vicinity, the mahabratara (or what ever is its name!) Khorne is quite right in stating the ethnicity of the Iranians. Telugu of South-Central Dravidian and Kurukh-Malto of North Dravidian have preserved the Proto-Dravidian gender in the singular but independently extended the meaning of *aw-ar to human as happened in South Dravidian. Relative clauses can be formed by changing the verb to a tensed participle and by shifting the noun that it qualifies to the following position. The linguistic evidence for Dravidian impact grows increasingly strong as we move from the Samhitas down through the later Vedic works and into the classical post-Vedic literature. All that the other three did not do! In the Buddhist Jataka story known as Akiti Jataka there is a mention to Damila-rattha (Tamil dynasty). WebThe most important characteristic features of this type are broad-head, dark complexion with yellowish tinge and scanty hair on face and body. To-day, the population of India has reached a billion mark. The third century BCE onwards saw the development of many great empires in South India like Pandya, Chola, Pallava, Satavahana, Chalukya, Kakatiya and Rashtrakuta. [23], The Dravidian language influenced the Indo-Aryan languages. Stupid me, they were from a planet out in space! [61] They further noted that "the direct lineal descendants of the Neolithic inhabitants of Mehrgarh are to be found to the south and the east of Mehrgarh, in northwestern India and the western edge of the Deccan plateau", with neolithic Mehrgarh showing greater affinity with chalocolithic Inamgaon, south of Mehrgarh, than with chalcolithic Mehrgarh.[61]. Most of the names of hills, rivers, villages and towns particularly in North India are austric (Mundaric/tribal)in origin and not in Indo-Aryan languages. [25] They were preceded by a mixture of AASI (Ancient Ancestral South Indian, i.e. Srinivasa They also set the caste system in India consisting of 4 general tribes of priests, businessmen and aristocrats and scheduled castes. The participants being the Jews, Christians Muslims and the Hindus, it was decided, with the agreement of more than 50 well known historians, that the Aryan Invasion Theory be called the Aryan Migration Theory. Thus, my arya friends, you are not only the provider of zero-based decimal system, but also, the alphabets of the world. There were two numbers in Proto-Dravidian, singular and plural. According to Max Muller, the Mahabharat war took place in 1200BC. Even in the last 2000 years, the Jews, Christians, Parsis, Agakhanis, and recently, the Tibetans have come to India to settle. Other gods mentioned were Mayyon and Vaali, now identified with Krishna and Balarama, who are all major deities in Hinduism today. The British and the historians had interests, to rule India, as well as, to convert the Indians to Christianity. I guess, the writers or speakers of the IVC script rode horses at the Indus. During the Ice-Age, northern half of the Northern Hemisphere was under ice, including inland seas and lakes. 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 [93] The Agamas are Tamil and Sanskrit scriptures chiefly constituting the methods of temple construction and creation of murti, worship means of deities, philosophical doctrines, meditative practices, attainment of sixfold desires and four kinds of yoga. It must be, because we are Aryans the Barbarians, and Dravidians the Squat Creatures! Why is it that no steps have been taken to correct the history of India since Independence? Early Dravidian influence accounts for several of the innovative traits in Indic better than any internal explanation that has been proposed. 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. I am, perhaps, missing the point, Ben, that you are trying to make, please clarify. Tolkappiyam mentions that each of these thinai had an associated deity such as Seyyon in Kurinji (hills), Thirumaal in Mullai (forests), and Kotravai in Marutham (plains), and Wanji-ko in the Neithal (coasts and seas). Weech (History of the World) opines that 'the **** type ssems early to have passed from Africa to South India', where as Bouquet (Comparative Religion) has not ruled out 'sea-borne invasion'. The temple is built in Dravidian style and occupies an area of 156 acres (631,000 m2).[28]. Whether, one considered the area of origin around the Caspian Sea, or the foothills of the Caucasus, or any part of Russia or Europe, most of the areas were depopulated because of ice. [78] This represents an early religious and cultural fusion[79][note 3] or synthesis[81] between ancient Dravidians and Indo-Aryans. Once, it was decided among the wise and the learned that, as it has become necessary, Agatsya Muni should be authorized to locate an area where educational activities can be carried out, in safety and in peace. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Kollywood and Tollywood produce most films in India.[125]. It was those seals that Alexander Cunningham had found in the rubble in 1856, started to multiply in thousands in the archaeological digs that were carried out since 1922. Sanskrit language - HEAT is most where the FIRE is. [120] The Agamas are a collection of Tamil and Sanskrit scriptures chiefly constituting the methods of temple construction and creation of murti, worship means of deities, philosophical doctrines, meditative practices, attainment of sixfold desires and four kinds of yoga. Further, he proposed that, 'we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Indians think that, if all that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will loose their self-esteem, and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation'. Over many centuries a fusion of. The nose shows a wide range of variation, from fine to broad. Rosetta Stone is a large slab of stone found at a village by the same name in Egypt. These conquerors were interested in conquering parts in North India, dismantling the local cultures and pushing the indigenous Dravidian tribes of Dravidians towards thesouth. The Portuguese already had a foot-hold in Goa, the Capital of their Eastern Empire. The forms *ctu (*cat-V-) 6 and * (*e-V-) 7 are also used with neuter agreement. They may have been indigenous to the Indian subcontinent, but origins in, or influence from, western Asia have also been proposed. The two groups (ANI and ASI) extensively mixed in India between 4,200 and 1,900 years ago (2200 BCE 100 CE). In Dravidian, gender is primarily determined by the meaning of the noun or pronoun and secondarily by certain formal features. One such place was India, protected from the chilling Arctic winds by the Himalayas, that also acted as a large reservoir of water. Telugu has a nativelike form wyi 1,000, but its etymology is uncertain. In complex sentences, the main verb clause occupies the final position and is preceded by subordinate clauses that end in nonfinite verbs (those that are perfective, durative, conditional, concessive, and so on). A sentence that ends in a noun phrase predicate can become subordinate by the addition of a nonfinite verb such as * to be, or *yan to say. Quotations are signaled by a quotative particle derived from the verb to say meaning having said.. No wonder Khalistan and Kashmir movement are so popular. It was the people from outer world to come down and create this magical cities as the indigenous had no capacities. [53] On the other hand, there is also evidence that Dravidians originated from the ASI-related populations.[54]. It was the first step. The oblique stem is used in genitive meaning and can occur as the first member of noun + noun compounds. The importance of the above is that Equus Sivalensis, the South-East Asian breed have 17 pairs of ribs, where as, the Central Asian and European horses, called Equus Przevaalskii, have 18 pairs of ribs. post-dating Harappan decline) stone celt allegedly marked with Indus signs has been considered by some to be significant for the Dravidian identification. Looks -Aryans are fair skinned as compared to Dravidians. [82][80][83][84], According to Mallory there are an estimated thirty to forty Dravidian loanwords in Rig Veda. There are many different styles of sari draping varying across regions and communities. Aryans and Dravidians have different accents. or by adding an interrogative particle (*-) to the phrase or clause questioned. [46], Several studies have shown that the Indian subcontinent harbours two major ancestral components,[24][47][48] namely the Ancestral North Indians (ANI) which is broadly related to West Eurasians and the Ancestral South Indians (ASI) which is clearly distinct from ANI. The most commonly spoken Dravidian languages are Telugu (), Tamil (), Kannada (), Malayalam (), Brahui (), Tulu (), Gondi and Coorg. 'Living along the shores of Caspian Sea for many centuries - wandered forth in search of a new home - for many centuries lived among the peaks which surround the plateau of Iran, and that is why we call them Aryans. The object of the AIT was to demean the Indians. (2019), early Dravidians formed as a mixture of Ancient Ancestral South Indians ("AASI" indigenous South Asian hunter-gatherers distan In the 1850s Max Muller introduced the notion of two Aryan races, a western and an eastern one, The Aryans had no word for brick in their language. Indian history has not yet been written by the original ionhabitants of India - the Dravidians. The as-yet-unexplained alternation between long and short vowels in personal pronouns could be a consequence of a laryngeal *H in the reconstructed forms, including *yaH-n, *yaH-m, *taH-n, *taH-m, and so on. Should not the history books be corrected as soon as possible? In the case of the Indus script, all the above factors were unavailable to the linguists, and they could not think of any other way, until the arrival of Dr. S R Rao, N Jha, and Rajaram on the scene after the independence. Direction: Although not a very important topic, however, UPSC can ask about language and culture-related themes based on this issue. The river had dried up even before the arrival of the Illiterates. These tribal Dravidian languages preserve more archaic forms than the literary Dravidian languages of South India. Thanks for sharing. The width, in some parts of the course of the river was so wide, that the name Sarasvati-Sindhaive Sagar has been in use in the scriptures. It has praised profusely, the river Sarasvati. It was decided that the area south of the Vindhya would be suitable. The word Arya had great attraction for the Europeans, who used the word to create, one of the greatest fictional race of this world, the Aryans', with none of the arya qualities and complete illiterates with no script of there own. [69][70], Yuri Knorozov surmised that the symbols represent a logosyllabic script and suggested, based on computer analysis, an agglutinative Dravidian language as the most likely candidate for the underlying language. land without rivers. The Europeans, because of their attitude - had no respect for Indian culture and treated the natives as slaves (Hownslar & Smart -A World History - 1977) -could not imagine that such people could be the creators of a Mother Language. And you are quite right, it is the innocent that needed to prove that he is not Aryan the Barbarian nor Aryan the Illiterate! The word Aryan has been related to 'white men like Semites' by Van Loon, 'Nordics" by Bouquet and 'people of different blood' by Weech. [77] Yet, according to Krishnamurti, Dravidian languages may have reached south India before Indo-Aryan migrations. Max Muller and the historians were tied up in knots with the Christian chronology. These people are supposed to have come to India from the trans-Himalayan regions through the river valleys. had 4582% Iranian farmer-related ancestry and 1150% AASI (or Andamanese-related hunter-gatherer ancestry). (2019) shows that the native South Asian genetic component is distinct from the Andamanese and thus that the Andamanese (Onge) are an imperfect and imprecise proxy for "ASI" ancestry in South Asians (there is difficulty detecting ASI ancestry in the North Indian Gujarati when the Andamanese Onge are used). The Hathigumpha inscription of the Kalinga ruler Kharavela refers to a T(ra)mira samghata (Confederacy of Tamil rulers) dated to 150 BCE. 'These were white men like Semites, but they spoke a different language, which is regarded as the common ancestor of all European languages with some exceptions'. [72], Linguist Asko Parpola writes that the Indus script and Harappan language are "most likely to have belonged to the Dravidian family". Thus, the blue-eyed people of Major Yeats-Brown, turned into groups of different blood, all speaking a common tongue, the Mother of all Indo-European languages. Distribution of subgroups of Dravidian languages: Derenko: "The spread of these new technologies has been associated with the dispersal of Dravidian and Indo-European languages in southern Asia. [122] The theatrical culture flourished during the early Sangam age. Based on a proto-Dravidian assumption, they proposed readings of many signs, some agreeing with the suggested readings of Heras and Knorozov (such as equating the "fish" sign with the Dravidian word for fish, "min") but disagreeing on several other readings. Dravidians follow Hinduism more religiously as compared to Aryans. [25], Yelmen et al. But, now, the termite infested cupboard was falling apart. 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. In History of the World, W N Weech follows it up. 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. While the mutation spread across Europe, another explorer must have brought the mutation eastward to India likely traveling along the coast of the Persian Gulf where other pockets of the same mutation have been found. Malayalis are native to Kerala and Lakshadweep, but are also found in Puducherry and parts of Tamil Nadu.