There are many interesting points raised in your letter, perhaps some others may help us with those. [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 British adopted different tactics, resulted in the now famous policy of Divide and Rule. Dravidians are known for adhering more to a matriarchal family system whereas in Aryan cultures, the father is the head of the family. Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar was an intellectual warrior. 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'. This is the time when, according to the historians, waves of invading/migrating Aryans arrived in India. 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. After adulthood girls begin using the sari. Direction: Although not a very important topic, however, UPSC can ask about language and culture-related themes based on this issue. 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!) Thus, Zebu or Bos Indicus cattle did not come from the West, if anything, it is related to the cattle East of the Indus. The Europeans observed that many of the Sanskrit words had uncanny resemblance to the words in many of the European languages. [107] In Dravidian-speaking South India, the concept of divine kingship led to the assumption of major roles by state and temple. Mary Stanton & Albert Hyma in Streams of Civilization (1976) - They were nomads, lived of the meat of their herds and what loot they could gather from pillaged and conquered cities. In this sort of set-up, the indigenous women were required to warm up the beds, the mingling resulted in new races of Hispanic, Latino, Mulatto, Mestizo, Kriol etc. Interrogative sentences (questions) are formed by using either an interrogative pronoun or adverb (meaning who, which, when, where, etc.) Day People vs. Night People: What do they do? [59][60] According to Lukacs and Hemphill, while there is a strong continuity between the neolithic and chalcolithic (Copper Age) cultures of Mehrgarh, dental evidence shows that the chalcolithic population did not descend from the neolithic population of Mehrgarh,[61] which "suggests moderate levels of gene flow". [126] In South India various types of martial arts are practised like Kalaripayattu and Silambam. community services, construction services, building of palaces and temples and art-work, etc. Lockard: "The encounters that resulted from Aryan migration brought together several very different peoples and cultures, reconfiguring Indian society. [6] Dravidian peoples are also present in Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa, Myanmar, East Africa, the Caribbean, and the United Arab Emirates through recent migration. i.e. 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 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. The object of the AIT was to demean the Indians. Tens of thousands of hand-written Sanskrit scripts were collected from all over India and sent to various European locations for study. Honestly, there was never really any tribe with the name Aryan. Following are names of Rigvedic tribes: Alina tribe Alina people - Wikipedia [ ht The word 'Dravid" implies to a person who is the knower(drasta) of knowledge (Vidya), or a person from whom the knowledge flows. 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). Birbal's reaction was in response to the King's decision not to reward a person who stood the whole night in a cold water-pool, finding an excuse that a candle was burning in a far-away window, and that he was getting heat from that light! The Dravidian languages have a decimal system. Only accusative (*-ay, *-n), dative (*-[n]kk), and possibly locative can be reconstructed for Proto-Dravidian. 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. Thus, the river is no longer a mythical river. The most notable Carnatic musician is Purandara Dasa who lived in the court of Krishnadevaraya of the Vijayanagara empire. This system is preserved by the languages of Central Dravidian and South-Central Dravidian (other than Telugu). Early Dravidian influence accounts for several of the innovative traits in Indic better than any internal explanation that has been proposed. ANSWER : Difference between Aryans and Dravidians as elucidated. Due to the complexity of draping the sari, younger girls start with a skirt called a pavada. [94] The worship of village deities, as well as sacred flora and fauna in Hinduism is recognised as a survival of the pre-Vedic Dravidian religion. [82][80][83][84], Throughout Tamilakam, a king was considered to be divine by nature and possessed religious significance. Was the mingling with the 'war-like Aryans (Van Loon)' voluntary or forced? The present population is greatly affected by the D & R Policy, the main basis being the AIT. In India, too, the mingling with the locals resulted in the population of Anglo-Indians. [10] They may have been indigenous to the Indian subcontinent,[11][12][13] but origin in, or influence from, Western Asia have also been proposed. This designation is not restricted by the shade of the skin, knowledge, wisdom, wealth, profession nor sex. Thus, every European country was racing to justify that there's is the one, the provider of the Mother Tongue'. Aryans and Dravidians have different accents. [122] The theatrical culture flourished during the early Sangam age. NOW, excavations has shown that great towns flourished as long ago as 3000 BC'. Traditional dress of Dravidian women is typical of most Indian women, that of the sari. DNA Analysis by Experts has proved that its the same for North South East West Indians. They were not builders. They may have been indigenous to the Indian subcontinent, but origins in, or influence from, western Asia have also been proposed. In the last century or two, cross-breeding has taken place in the West. The Brahmins (7% of the Hindu population), Kshatriya and Vaishyas (23%) and the Shudras (70%), all had tasks allocated to them. There were two numbers in Proto-Dravidian, singular and plural. The subject matter was, by a simple stroke of pen, changed from Annihilation to Assimilation. It has always been used as an adjective in the Hindu books and scriptures. 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 Aryans are trying to rule the world thjrough their International Aryan League. Allan O Hownslar & Terry L Smart in A Study of World History (1977) - The earliest Aryans had no interest in cities or trading. [29] In Prakrit, words such as "Damela", "Dameda", "Dhamila" and "Damila", which later evolved from "Tamila", could have been used to denote an ethnic identity. [52] According to another study, the neolithic farmers ancestry component forms the main ancestry of modern South Asians. The name Dravida is the name of the people speaking a [88] According to Erdosy, the most plausible explanation for the presence of Dravidian structural features in Old Indo-Aryan is that the majority of early Old Indo-Aryan speakers had a Dravidian mother tongue which they gradually abandoned. 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. The SUN is the culprit providing darker skin to the people, living along the equatorial belt,to be able to tolerate the stronger rays. Around this time, Dravidians encountered Muslim traders, and the first Tamil Muslims and Sri Lankan Moors appeared. There was one language and unity and happiness. Revision - Guess-work needs to be discarded and correct history needs to be taught in schools. These tribal Dravidian languages preserve more archaic forms than the literary Dravidian languages of South India. [25] The present people of the Indian subcontinent, including the Dravidians, are of a mixed genetic origin and have ancestry from indigenous South Asian Hunter Gatherers, Neolithic west Asian farmers from Iran and Steppe Yamnaya pastoralists. White skinned people of the world are late comers. This represents an early religious and cultural fusion[79][note 3] or synthesis[81] between ancient Dravidians and Indo-Aryans, which became more evident over time with sacred iconography, traditions, philosophy, flora and fauna that went on to influence and shape Indian civilisation. The most interesting part of this fiction is when did the Aryans come to India? Look at us - we are up to our necks into the Caste System, and our own government takes the advantage of the divided society. [44] Renfrew and Bahn conclude that several scenarios are compatible with the data, and that "the linguistic jury is still very much out. Ancient Dravidian religion constituted of an animistic and non-Vedic form of religion which may have influenced the gamas, Vedic and non-Vedic texts[92] which post-date the Vedic texts. These are his exact words: 'A new and more energetic race appeared upon the horizon - Indo-European race - made itself the ruling class in the country, which is now known as British India'. What meaning would you derive from these information? They had figures of humans and animals and a very short inscription of a few letters each, in an UNKNOWN script, which has been called the Indus or Harappan script. There were good reasons, for the Biblical Great Flood in 2350 BC, as well as the submergence of the Dwarica due to rise in the sea level around 3050 BC, and even the Ram Setu (Adam's Bridge) being under water for the same reasons. IVC - Some historians have opined that people from OUTER SPACE have developed these advanced cities. Dr Ambedkarji examined the Rigveda - supposedly the First Book of the Aryans as per Max Muller, written in 1000 BC. According to David McAlpin and his Elamo-Dravidian hypothesis, the Dravidian languages were brought to India by immigration into India from Elam (not to be confused with Eelam), located in present-day southwestern Iran. (2009) principally reflects gene flow from Iran and the Middle East". Every noun has an oblique stem in the singular and plural that is formed by the addition of a suffix (derived from Proto-Dravidian *i, *a, *tt, or *n or a combination of these, in addition to a zero suffix []) to which non-nominative case markers are added. Now he must show to the world that Europeans can correct the history, too. The origin of the Sanskrit word drvia is Tamil. All other higher numerals are borrowed from Sanskrit. [21][75][76] The Indus Valley Civilisation seemed to slowly lose their urban cohesion, and their cities were gradually abandoned during the late Harappan period, followed by eastward migrations before the Indo-Aryan migration into the Indian subcontinent. [127] In vadakkan pattukal ballads, at least a few women warriors continued to practice and achieved a high degree of expertise.[127]. The dhoti is generally white in colour, and occasionally has a border of red, green or gold. It is then stressed that 'it does not mean a common racial stock' and further explains that 'they were of different blood'. In addition, adjectives precede the nouns they qualify, nouns carry postpositions and not prepositions, adverbs precede verbs, and auxiliaries follow the main verb. Aryans and Dravidians View of historian P.T. This indicates there has been no mix of foreign and local DNA. A C Bouquet in Comparative Religion - They were people very much the type of our Scandinavian fore-fathers, hard-fighting, heavy-drinking folk. Re. The British and the historians had interests, to rule India, as well as, to convert the Indians to Christianity. [23], The Dravidian language influenced the Indo-Aryan languages. Yemen et al. It also mentions that the league of Tamil kingdoms had been in existence for 113 years by that time. There are many different styles of sari draping varying across regions and communities. The Proto-Dravidian gender was presumably masculine versus non-masculine, in both the singular and the plural. The meaning of the word Arya is given as 'noble' in English dictionaries. [104][105] Modern words for god like "k" (Tamil: "king"), "iai" ( "emperor") and "avar" ( "conqueror") now primarily refer to gods. The reasons could be to retire a horse because of old age or due to some injury while serving his master. Ararat. [20][24], Although in modern times speakers of various Dravidian languages have mainly occupied the southern portion of India, Dravidian speakers must have been widespread throughout the Indian subcontinent before the Indo-Aryan migration into the subcontinent. 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). Biologically bo th the north and south Indians are of the same Caucasian race, only when closer to the equator the skin becomes darker, and under the influence of constant heat the bodily frame tends to become a little smaller. Why is it that no steps have been taken to correct the history of India since Independence? We don't know any better! David McAlpin, "Toward Proto-Elamo-Dravidian". The framers of the fiction of the Aryans still had some way to go. What do you think we are? It is suggested that the language was spoken in the 4th millennium BCE, and started disintegrating into various branches around 3rd millennium BCE. Some scholars consider this type as representing the Proto-Dravidian gender system. The dark skinned people are the pioneers of civilizations. It is the truth, when the praise comes from an enemy. 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.. Medieval Tamil guilds and trading organisations like the Ayyavole and Manigramam played an important role in the southeast Asia trade. The Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal was formed in 1784 with a committee of 30 European members, under the Patronage of Governor General Sir Warren Hastings and the first president Sir Wm Jones. The samples analysed by Narasimhan et al. He was a law-maker, the Father of the Indian Constitution. Aryans have mingled with the authentic Indian population, so no one can be characterized as a pure Dravidian or as a pure Aryan. [67][68] The discovery in Tamil Nadu of a late Neolithic (early 2nd millennium BCE, i.e. The final element (predicate) in a sentence can be verbal or nominal. Dravidian languages show extensive lexical (vocabulary) borrowing, but only a few traits of structural (either phonological or grammatical) borrowing from Indo-Aryan, whereas Indo-Aryan shows more structural than lexical borrowings from the Dravidian languages. 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). 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. The forms *ctu (*cat-V-) 6 and * (*e-V-) 7 are also used with neuter agreement. Upon returning to England, he addressed the British Parliament on February 2nd, 1835 as follows: 'I have traveled through the length and breadth of India, and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief, such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such calibre, that I do not think, we would ever conquer this country, unless WE BREAK THE VERY BACKBONE OF THIS NATION, WHICH IS HER SPIRITUAL AND CULTURAL HERITAGE'. If one rejects the term Aryan, one should better speak only of Tamilian, not Dravidian. The Muni never returned! Six languages are currently recognized by India as Classical languages and four of them are Dravidian languages Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. I assume the ratio of 72% of the fair-skinned population of India, is based on the present population figures. Thus when the Aryans the Invisibles, sorry, the Invincible, came to India, the river did not exist. 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. The basic forms of numerals have neuter (others) agreement; a human suffix *-war or a derivative thereof is added to numeral roots when they classify the human category. [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. He then went on to separate them age-wise. This expression is now come to be known as Frawley's Paradox'. The work-men used the stones from these ruins to provide coarse gravel for the rail-road bed. The Dravidian language family is one of the oldest in the world. Over many centuries a fusion of. and Ireland in 1823, and its branches in Bombay, Ceylon, China and Malaysia, American Oriental Society in 1842, and German Oriental society in 1844. Natural justice demands that the blacks of the world should unite, form an International Draviodian League and regain the rule of the world. Looks -Aryans are fair skinned as compared to Dravidians. [14][15][16][17][18] According to Narasimhan et al. No wonder Khalistan and Kashmir movement are so popular. The Portuguese had their Eastern Empire whose capital was Goa. Would the ancestors of these 16th, 17th century Europeans have any different characters? The most traditional dress for Dravidian men is the lungi, or the more formal dhoti, called veshti in Tamil, panche in Kannada and Telugu, and mundu in Malayalam. These conquerors were interested in conquering parts in North India, dismantling the local cultures and pushing the indigenous Dravidian tribes of Dravidians towards thesouth.