Look at us - we are up to our necks into the Caste System, and our own government takes the advantage of the divided society. (Not Brahmins Vs Dalits .Gods dont have Caste idiots). 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. Aryans-North Indians are Sanscrit language based speakers and Dravidyans-south Indians are Tamil language based speakers. Both groups of these Indi Some scholars consider this type as representing the Proto-Dravidian gender system. It was decided that the area south of the Vindhya would be suitable. gamaprmya of Ymuncrya, Issue 160 of Gaekwad's Oriental Series. Aryavrita, Aryadesh, Aryalok, Aryasamaj and Aryarit. The formation of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal took place in 1784, that was followed by Socitie Asiatique of Paris in 1822, Royal Asiatic Society of G.B. Dept. The information below may be of some help to understand better. Stella Kramrisch (1976), The Hindu Temple Volume 1 & 2, Tillotson, G. H. R. (1997). As the term is commonly used in India today, Aryans are considered to be those who dont hail from India but instead came to India in 1500 BC from southern Russia and Iran. [85] Some of those for which Dravidian etymologies are certain include kulya "nest", kulpha "ankle", daa "stick", kla "slope", bila "hollow", khala "threshing floor". Lockard: "The encounters that resulted from Aryan migration brought together several very different peoples and cultures, reconfiguring Indian society. The Modern Tamil word for temple is koil (Tamil: ). [18][19] The Brahui population of Balochistan in Pakistan has been taken by some as the linguistic equivalent of a relict population, perhaps indicating that Dravidian languages were formerly much more widespread and were supplanted by the incoming Indo-Aryan 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. NOW, excavations has shown that great towns flourished as long ago as 3000 BC'. What tasks were allocated to the Shudras? 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. reComparison, reCompare, ComparisonEngine and the "vs" symbol are trademarks of MicroTier, Inc, Sign Each of the major Dravidian languages has its own film industry like Kollywood (Tamil), Tollywood (Telugu), Sandalwood (Kannada), Mollywood (Malayalam). It is hypothesized that the proto-Elamo-Dravidian language, most likely originated in the Elam province in southwestern Iran, spread eastwards with the movement of farmers to the Indus Valley and the Indian sub-continent.". Rigveda is a huge scripture, consisting of ten books. Web(9) This is an anthropological study of the development of the mastoid process in the four ethnic groups of Pakistani races: Turko-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Scytho- Dravidian, and Aryo- Dravidian. Up, Drowsy Driving vs. The details about the horse is very interesting, too. To-day, the population of India has reached a billion mark. The Religion of the Agamas. 2013) the native populations of India and Sri Lanka have distinct craniometric and anthropologic ancestry. [9], The origins of the Dravidians are a "very complex subject of research and debate". Looks -Aryans are fair skinned as compared to Dravidians. 66 years passed by. Text-book Revision, where the historians agreed to call, 'migration' in place of 'invasion' of/by the Aryans, amply justified the above saying. 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. This would explain that the color of the skin is not necessarily the uniting factor. 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. 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. [71] Knorozov's suggestion was preceded by the work of Henry Heras, who suggested several readings of signs based on a proto-Dravidian assumption. [52] According to another study, the neolithic farmers ancestry component forms the main ancestry of modern South Asians. There was scarcity of white women, too, resulted in the traffic in women. Early Dravidian influence accounts for several of the innovative traits in Indic better than any internal explanation that has been proposed. The historians toiled for decades now,to locate their own ancestors, who could be the supposed owners of a Mother Tongue, that became a basis for, at least, all the Indo-European languages. Rosetta Stone is a large slab of stone found at a village by the same name in Egypt. 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!) This was reflected in the demonstrative pronouns, which in the singular were masculine *aw-antu he (man) and non-masculine *a-tu other (meaning both woman and any nonhuman animate or thing). Other gods mentioned were Mayyon and Vaali, now identified with Krishna and Balarama, who are all major deities in Hinduism today. It was the people from outer world to come down and create this magical cities as the indigenous had no capacities. Many times these lungis are tube-shaped and tied around the waist, and can be easily tied above the knees for more strenuous activities. These conquerors were interested in conquering parts in North India, dismantling the local cultures and pushing the indigenous Dravidian tribes of Dravidians towards thesouth. (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). He formulated the basic structure of Carnatic music and is regarded as the Pitamaha (lit, "father" or the "grandfather") of Carnatic Music. [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. Theres some overlap of language with culture, but on the whole, there are huge commonalities of Thus, Aryans the Conquistadors, the Barbarians, the Illiterates, enter India, lined up the women, and injected the genes, however forgot to maintain records, and now cannot trace it back! He also looked for the word 'arya' (Aryan), and possible meaning attached to it. 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). Whatever the purpose of these societies, the universities were not to be left behind. "[10] They may have been indigenous to the Indian subcontinent,[11][12][13] but origins in, or influence from, western Asia have also been proposed. The Dravidian peoples, or Dravidians, are an ethnolinguistic and cultural group living in South Asia who predominantly speak any of the Dravidian languages. Aryans are white skinned. Re. Allan O Hownslar & Terry L Smart in A Study of World History (1977) - The earliest Aryans had no interest in cities or trading. Kanakadasa is another notable Carnatic musician who was Purandaradasa's contemporary. In the 1850s Max Muller introduced the notion of two Aryan races, a western and an eastern one, Thus when the Aryans the Invisibles, sorry, the Invincible, came to India, the river did not exist. Aryans have a north Indian accent whereas Dravidians have a south Indian accent. In Dravidian, gender is primarily determined by the meaning of the noun or pronoun and secondarily by certain formal features. India was chiefly aboriginal prior to the Aryanisation of India. Either an origin from the Indus Valley region which is based on genetic data as well as archaeological and linguistic evidence, in which proto-Dravidian was spread by peoples of the IVC, or from the pre-Indus groups of eastern peninsular India, which would be consistent with vocabulary about flora and fauna of peninsular India. The Coptics adopted Greek script and language. The movements of the people have been taking place in the distant past, e.g. The reasons could be to retire a horse because of old age or due to some injury while serving his master. 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. He had no intention nor interest to take any further steps. 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 British had representation in India in the form of British East India Co. Now the British, around 1776, had to leave America, they desired to concentrate in India. Rao's decipherment of the Indus script also proved that, the South Arabic and the Old Aramaic alphabets, as well as the Indian Brahmi, all are derived from the Indus script. Gender is specified in the third person in Dravidian but not in the first and second persons; he, she, and it are differentiated, but I, we, and you do not reflect gender. Also, other people have come to live in Northern India like Australoids and Mongoloids as they were groups of historic invaders. WebWith the Aryan race concept was contrasted the idea of what was called the Dravidian race equally erroneous as a racial term. 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 lungi consists of a colourful checked cotton cloth. Kenneth C Davis, in his book, Don't Know Much About History (Pub 1990), points out the European behavior as follows: 'Although, Hitler's attempted extermination of the Jews of Europe was a calculated, methodical genocidal plan, the European destruction of the Indians (Amerindians) was just as ruthlessly efficiently killing off perhaps 90% of the native population it found, all in the name of progress,civilization and Christianity'. The Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT) was part of the Divide & Rule Policy, which was carried out very successfully. The word Aryan has been related to 'white men like Semites' by Van Loon, 'Nordics" by Bouquet and 'people of different blood' by Weech. Upon subsidence of The Great Flood, Noah came down to the plains and busied himself tending a vineyard. (10) The Santal and Bhuiya tribes both speak Mundari, whereas the Oraons speak a Dravidian language. [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. Dr Ambedkar's researches into Rigveda conclusively proved that the race of Aryans did not come from outside India. 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'. [114][115] Isanasivagurudeva paddhati is another text from the 9th century describing the art of building in India in south and central India. Phonological features of Dravidian languages, Historical development of Dravidian phonology, South-Central Dravidian phonological development, Central Dravidian phonological development. The face is typically flat where the eyes are oblique with epicanthic fold. Dr Ambedkarji examined the Rigveda - supposedly the First Book of the Aryans as per Max Muller, written in 1000 BC. South-Central Dravidian (except Telugu) and Brahui use the first form, *-(n)k(k)a; Central Dravidian and Tulu use the second and third forms; Telugu uses the second alone; and South Dravidian uses the third alone. 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. Just as the Europeans were attracted by the word 'Arya' (nobleness), so were the Indians, as the word indicated the character and behavior of a person. Dravidian visual art is dominated by stylised temple architecture in major centres, and the production of images on stone and bronze sculptures. Great Gurukuls were established in the South, and for that reason, the South is often addressed as Dravid-desh, and the teachers and the gurus as 'dravid' (dra - drasta and vid - vidya), a knower of knowledge. [127] Among some communities, young girls received preliminary training up until the onset of puberty. This indicates there has been no mix of foreign and local DNA. Aryan and Dravidian was the British colonial propaganda, they used this theory to attack basic of Hinduism and Indian nationalism. No such thing ha [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. You probably have umpteen nice things in you. The present population is greatly affected by the D & R Policy, the main basis being the AIT. 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. DNA Analysis by Experts has proved that its the same for North South East West Indians. A comprehensive description of Parpola's work until 1994 is given in his book Deciphering the Indus Script. The number words for 11 to 19, 21 to 29, and so on are formed by compounds of words for 10 or 20 followed by the words for 1 to 9e.g., *paHt-ontu 11 and *pat-i(n)- mu:ntu 13. Compounds meaning two-ten, three-ten, four-ten, for example, denote 2 10, 3 10, 4 10e.g., *iru-paHtu 20, *muH-paHtu 30, and *nal-paHtu 40. Proto-Dravidian *ntu 100 is the highest numeral reconstructed. Or were they all dark-skinned people? The people of India belong to different races and have gained appreciation for their physical traits. Re. 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'. Therefore, every person of the Aryadesh had a right to be an arya person. [112] It was customary for people who sought victory in war to worship these hero stones to bless them with victory. What do you think we are? The article seems to be a consequence of erroneous scholariness and faulty research. 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). [45] Nowadays, Tamils, Malayalis, Telugus and Kannadigas make up around 20% of India's population. Has the British rule anything to do with the creation of Aryans and Dravidians? [78] This represents an early religious and cultural fusion[79][note 3] or synthesis[81] between ancient Dravidians and Indo-Aryans. Bhikhubhai, great stuff. Aryans were fair skinned, tall, and spoke a different language from Dravidians who were dark, short and spoke Dravidian language. The finding of the horse bones at Harappa, nor the picture of the horse on the seals, were sufficient to the Indo-logists to accept the existence of horses in India. These languages are Telugu, Malayali, Kannada and Tamil. 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. Ira-q means land of rivers, and also, we have a name for a river, Iravati. Web-Dravidians are not very well-versed in Hindi. Rig-veda, Book 1, Hymn 162, Verse 18 - Ashwamedh Yagna, to honor a horse, after serving the ruler, was being carried out. Perhaps, Revision as a subject should be introduced as a subject in Indian schools. Or maybe the Sanskrit language originated in the modern civilization of the Indus. Due to the complexity of draping the sari, younger girls start with a skirt called a pavada. The British and the historians had interests, to rule India, as well as, to convert the Indians to Christianity. They are also found in large numbers in Middle East countries, the Americas and Australia. The nominative (subject noun) case is not represented by any suffix. He further states that 'these were people very much the type of our Scandinavian fore-fathers, hard-fighting, heavy-drinking folk, with a certain contempt for the short dark races they conquered, since they called them Dasus or Dasyus - squat creatures, very much as Hitler spoke of those dwarfs of Prague. Ararat. 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. [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]. 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. With the growing influence of Persian and Sufi music on Indian music, a clear distinction in style appeared from the 12th century onwards. 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. The Dravidian movement and Aryan illusions. Aryan-Dravidian divide a myth: Study. WebThe most important characteristic features of this type are broad-head, dark complexion with yellowish tinge and scanty hair on face and body. David McAlpin, "Toward Proto-Elamo-Dravidian". [106] Tolkappiyar refers to the Three Crowned Kings as the "Three Glorified by Heaven", (Tamil: , Vpuka Mvar). [57] According to Romero, this suggests that "the most common lactose tolerance mutation made a two-way migration out of the Middle East less than 10,000 years ago. He notes that there are two scenarios for the origin and spread of Dravidians. The framers of the fiction of the Aryans still had some way to go. WebThe features of the people of this race are a broad head? A third inscription in Kanheri Caves refers to a Dhamila-gharini (Tamil house-holder). It is the truth, when the praise comes from an enemy. The population of the world then was estimated at 5 million (The Economist - Dec 24, 2005), mostly settled around river deltas. After going trough the books thoroughly, his comments were as follows: 'As far as the Rigveda is concerned, there is not a particle of evidence suggesting the invasion of India by the Aryans from outside India'. In India, too, the mingling with the locals resulted in the population of Anglo-Indians. The river had dried up around 1800 BC, where as it was in its full glory as far back as 3000 BC and earlier. The Europeans have been looking for a Mother-Tongue in a far-away places instead of at the source. Colonel Coke of Morodabad gave a very practical advice to the then Governor in a letter as follows: 'Our endeavor should be to uphold in full force, the separation which exists between different religions and races, not to endeavor to amalgamate them. [117][118][119] Traditional Dravidian architecture and symbolism are also based on Agamas. In the first para of the subject for comparison, it is stated that 'Aryans have mingled with the authentic Indian population, so no one can be characterized as a pure Dravidian or as a pure Aryan'. Oriental Institute, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. It must be, because we are Aryans the Barbarians, and Dravidians the Squat Creatures! For all these Unis, the hot subject was the 'Comparative Philology'. 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! It was the first step. 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. [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. In this, they have failed miserably to locate a single European country that could provide the required qualifications - culture and language. Recent excavations 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 Indian history has not yet been written by the original ionhabitants of India - the Dravidians. Toda and Erukala (a dialect of Tamil) of South Dravidian and Brahui of North Dravidian have lost gender and preserved only number. Thus, the ground work was already laid when Lord Macaulay visited India around 1835 to study the educational needs of the Indians. (2019), early Dravidians formed as a mixture of Ancient Ancestral South Indians ("AASI" indigenous South Asian hunter-gatherers distan Why is it that no steps have been taken to correct the history of India since Independence? The meaning categories are male human (man), female human (woman), human (people), and others, the last contrasting with the three former categories. Anon 02/27/2023 (Mon) 14:04:37 ID: 55a153 No. This expression is now come to be known as Frawley's Paradox'. 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'. 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. The stature is usually short or below medium. 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'. His followers, upon misbehaving, became the victims of God's anger, resulting in the Great Flood of 2350BC. He clarifies that 'it was by no means did the Portuguese enjoy a monopoly. The Dravidian language family is one of the oldest in the world. The Brahmins (7% of the Hindu population), Kshatriya and Vaishyas (23%) and the Shudras (70%), all had tasks allocated to them. It also mentions that the league of Tamil kingdoms had been in existence for 113 years by that time. Wouldn't you wonder how did this mega change occur in just 175 years? Ben, thank you for pointing out that the intellectuals have rejected the Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT), and I do hope that is the case. The name Dravida is the name of the people speaking a The Europeans observed that many of the Sanskrit words had uncanny resemblance to the words in many of the European languages. While Pali and Prakrits were not used by Brahmins, both Pali and Prakrits were IndoAryan languages and ultimately derived from Vedic Sanskrit, which seems to have been brought by MLBA-rich people from Central Asia. [65] Already in 1924, when announcing the discovery of the IVC, John Marshall stated that (one of) the language(s) may have been Dravidic. 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They were fond of horse-racing, chariot-racing, dancing, gambling and wrestling. The origin of the Sanskrit word drvia is Tamil. The word 'arya' was part of the words, e.g. Originally saris were worn bare, but during the Victorian era, women began wearing blouse (called a ravike) along with sari. This event occurred some 5000 years ago, just after Lord Krishna left this world as well as the commencement of the Kali Era. 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. [25], Yelmen et al. Nagalingam, Pathmarajah (2009). The study further showed that the native South Asians, north and south, form a unique group distinct from "Australo-Melanesians". [82][80][83][84], Throughout Tamilakam, a king was considered to be divine by nature and possessed religious significance. [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. WebDravidian and Indo-Aryan (Indo-Iranian) are language groups, not clans or cultures. The English trading community too, had their presence around 1600. A C Bouquet in Comparative Religion - They were people very much the type of our Scandinavian fore-fathers, hard-fighting, heavy-drinking folk. (2019) conclude that ANI and ASI were formed in the 2nd millennium BCE. Anybody can answer that the color of the skin has nothing to do with one's intelligence, nor with the goodness of their hearts. Tens of thousands of hand-written Sanskrit scripts were collected from all over India and sent to various European locations for study. "[90], With the rise of the Kuru Kingdom a process of Sanskritization started which influenced all of India, with the populations of the north of the Indian subcontinent predominantly speaking the Indo-Aryan languages.[91]. The only matter, these historians are sure of, is that they belong to their race.