India was no Americas - India had to deal with invasion for centuries. Of course, the British Raj was the culprit, and as the proverb goes, 'Ruler writes history'. 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. Early Dravidian influence accounts for several of the innovative traits in Indic better than any internal explanation that has been proposed. [122] Ancient literary works, such as the Cilappatikaram, describe a system of music. [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. The name Dravida is the name of the people speaking a [126] In South India various types of martial arts are practised like Kalaripayattu and Silambam. If one rejects the term Aryan, one should better speak only of Tamilian, not Dravidian. 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. It has praised profusely, the river Sarasvati. [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. They were not builders. Dr S R Rao, formerly the head of the Archaeological Survey of India, was free of the narrow vision of the past Indo-logists. migrations before the development of agriculture (8,0009,000 years before present (BP)); migration of western Asian people together with the spread of agriculture, maybe up to 4,600 years BP; migrations of western Eurasians from 3,000 to 4,000 years BP. Upon subsidence of The Great Flood, Noah came down to the plains and busied himself tending a vineyard. 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. Honestly, there was never really any tribe with the name Aryan. Following are names of Rigvedic tribes: Alina tribe Alina people - Wikipedia [ ht In fact, until the late 19th century most Kerala women did not wear any upper garments, or were forced to by law, and in many villages, especially in tribal communities, the sari is worn without the blouse. The origin of the Sanskrit word drvia is Tamil. Srinivasa suggest that the South Indian tribal Paniya people would serve as a better proxy than the Andamanese (Onge) for the "native South Asian" component in modern South Asians. The dark skinned people are the pioneers of civilizations. 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. Thus, Zebu or Bos Indicus cattle did not come from the West, if anything, it is related to the cattle East of the Indus. Thus, the ground work was already laid when Lord Macaulay visited India around 1835 to study the educational needs of the Indians. It was decided that the area south of the Vindhya would be suitable. The Spanish, the English, the Dutch and the French were also caught up in the TRAFFIC IN MEN'. These tribal Dravidian languages preserve more archaic forms than the literary Dravidian languages of South India. All other higher numerals are borrowed from Sanskrit. The melting of the ice created lakes and filled the rivers, in turn, the water was emptied in the sea, raising the sea level. Thus when the Aryans the Invisibles, sorry, the Invincible, came to India, the river did not exist. This designation is not restricted by the shade of the skin, knowledge, wisdom, wealth, profession nor sex. Thread: Aryan vs Dravidians - A Myth by Dr. Dr. Subramanian Swamy. Thus, the geneticists went to work. Horses - Impressions upon thousands of SEALS have been found. [95] Hinduism can be regarded as a religious and cultural fusion[79][note 3] or synthesis[81] between ancient Dravidians and Indo-Aryans, and other local elements. [113], Mayamata and Manasara shilpa texts estimated to be in circulation by the 5th to 7th century AD, are guidebooks on the Dravidian style of Vastu Shastra design, construction, sculpture and joinery technique. It is the truth, when the praise comes from an enemy. The river had dried up even before the arrival of the Illiterates. It was one learned Irishman, Bishop James Ussher, formulated in the 17th century, the chronology of God's creation.The God created the world in 4004BC. Some linguists explain this anomaly by arguing that Middle Indo-Aryan and New Indo-Aryan were built on a Dravidian substratum. [85] Some of those for which Dravidian etymologies are certain include kulya "nest", kulpha "ankle", daa "stick", kla "slope", bila "hollow", khala "threshing floor". These people are supposed to have come to India from the trans-Himalayan regions through the river valleys. The last time the linguists went to work to decipher a script was in respect of the Egyptian hieroglyphic script, i.e. In History of the World, W N Weech follows it up. 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. 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. Only accusative (*-ay, *-n), dative (*-[n]kk), and possibly locative can be reconstructed for Proto-Dravidian. These conquerors were not builders. 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 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. Dravidians also live in central India and other countries like Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The reconstructed personal pronouns are *yn or *yan- I, *ym/*yam- we (excluding the people spoken to), *m/*am- we (including the people spoken to), *nin/*nin- you (singular), *nm/*nim- you (plural), and *tn/*tan- self (often used as a substitute for the third-person pronouns). 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. (2011), their research on lactose tolerance in India suggests that "the west Eurasian genetic contribution identified by Reich et al. Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar was an intellectual warrior. The cattle from Eurasia, popular names being Longhorn and Hereford, have more or less plain back. Erdosy (1995:18) Even though the innovative traits in Indic could be explained by multiple internal explanations, early Dravidian influence is the only explanation that can account for all of the innovations at once. 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. [17] It is one of the earliest sites with evidence of farming and herding in South Asia. 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'. 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. [73] Parpola led a Finnish team in investigating the inscriptions using computer analysis. 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. One such place was India, protected from the chilling Arctic winds by the Himalayas, that also acted as a large reservoir of water. People came from far off countries for education at institutions, such as Taksha-shila and Nalanda. All rights reserved 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. Such indulgence has nothing to do with the freedom of speech nor expression of any-one. The nominative (subject noun) case is not represented by any suffix. [66] Cultural and linguistic similarities have been cited by researchers Henry Heras, Kamil Zvelebil, Asko Parpola and Iravatham Mahadevan as being strong evidence for a proto-Dravidian origin of the ancient Indus Valley civilisation. The white race that entered India was called Aryan, because they came via Iran. There are evidences that many rituals which may seem Hindu today has been loaned from a prior tribal source. WebHistorical language contact between the Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages of South Asia has been written about extensively. Ira-q means land of rivers, and also, we have a name for a river, Iravati. Wouldn't you like to know that Indian cattle have HUMPS on their backs (ZEBU-BOS INDICUS), and the European cattle (Longhorn, Hereford, BOS TAURUS) have no humps on their backs! [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. The Jesuits and other Christian missionaries were there too. 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. [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. [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". But, now, the termite infested cupboard was falling apart. Because of contact with Hindi and Bengali, Kurukh and Malto introduced gender distinction in the first and second persons also. Ignorant or Good Vs. Because the original meaning of the word Aryan has not been kept pure and there are additional races living in the region, the entire population of northern India cant be characterized as Aryans. Look at us - we are up to our necks into the Caste System, and our own government takes the advantage of the divided society. They failed miserably in this task. [52] According to another study, the neolithic farmers ancestry component forms the main ancestry of modern South Asians. It would have made a big difference to the promoters of the AIT, if the geneticists had confirmed the existence of Aryan (European) genes among the Indians. The third century BCE onwards saw the development of large Dravidian empires like Chera, Chola, Pandyan, Chutu, Rashtrakuta, Vijayanagara, Pallava, Chalukya, Hoysala, Kingdom of Mysore and smaller kingdoms like Ay, Alupa, Western Ganga, Eastern Ganga, Kadamba, Kalabhra, Andhra Ikshvaku, Vishnukundina, Western Chalukya, Eastern Chalukya, Sena, Kakatiya, Reddy, Mysore, Jaffna, Travancore, Venad, Cochin, Cannanore, Calicut and the Nayakas. Now the people decided to express gratitude to God, and started to build the Tower of Babel. The Aryans had no respect for the Indian culture and treated the natives as slaves. 1942), it is stated that 'it is important to remember that Aryan denotes the primary language, from which many different ancient and modern languages are descended'. (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). Perhaps, Revision as a subject should be introduced as a subject in Indian schools. It must be, because we are Aryans the Barbarians, and Dravidians the Squat Creatures! A third inscription in Kanheri Caves refers to a Dhamila-gharini (Tamil house-holder). The historians treated Persia as one of the transit points to India. Six languages are currently recognized by India as Classical languages and four of them are Dravidian languages Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. There was scarcity of white women, too, resulted in the traffic in women. [24][note 2][25] Later, a component termed "AASI", found to be the predominant element in ASI, was distinguished in subsequent studies. The only matter, these historians are sure of, is that they belong to their race. Mudumby Narasimhachary (Ed) (1976). I need more time to read and comment. [23] According to Horen Tudu, "many academic researchers have attempted to connect the Dravidians with the remnants of the great Indus Valley civilisation, located in Northwestern India but [i]t is mere speculation that the Dravidians are the ensuing postIndus Valley settlement of refugees into South and Central India. They were fond of horse-racing, chariot-racing, dancing, gambling and wrestling. They also have distinct cultural beliefs different from those of the Aryans. [23], The Dravidian language influenced the Indo-Aryan languages. 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. I thought, if at all, the word is related to the word Iran, the correct word should have been Iranian, meaning the people coming from Ira-n, i.e. It includes Caucasians and also their sub-race. In White skinned people of the world are late comers. This expression is now come to be known as Frawley's Paradox'. [114][115] Isanasivagurudeva paddhati is another text from the 9th century describing the art of building in India in south and central India. The final element (predicate) in a sentence can be verbal or nominal. As noted above, in most of the languages, adverbs of time and place carry case inflection like nouns but lack gender and number distinction. Apparently all the forms were in use dialectally in Proto-Dravidian. Therefore, every person of the Aryadesh had a right to be an arya person. You probably have umpteen nice things in you. Alexander Cunningham, then Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India, saw characters written on seals that had been found in the rubble'. The word Aryans was brutally used by Hitler during world war second to attain exclusion of Jews and other ethnicities from a specific group of Germans. [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. 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. [53] On the other hand, there is also evidence that Dravidians originated from the ASI-related populations.[54]. What do the historians say about the ancestors of the Aryans? Thus, every European country was racing to justify that there's is the one, the provider of the Mother Tongue'. Aryans were fair skinned, tall, and spoke a different language from Dravidians who were dark, short and spoke Dravidian language. The Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple located in Indian state of Tamil Nadu is often considered as the largest functioning Hindu temple in the world. Culture [78] This represents an early religious and cultural fusion[79][note 3] or synthesis[81] between ancient Dravidians and Indo-Aryans. 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. He notes that there are two scenarios for the origin and spread of Dravidians. Under the guidance of St. Francis Xavier, Inquisition was carried out. Dravidian grammatical impact on the structure and syntax of Indo-Aryan languages is considered far greater than the Indo-Aryan grammatical impact on Dravidian. This would explain that the color of the skin is not necessarily the uniting factor. The meaning of the word Arya is given as 'noble' in English dictionaries. One day,working in the vineyard, he got very tired, had a few wine drinks, went to his tent and slept, naked. The third-person pronouns are derived from deictic bases *aH- that, *iH- this, and *yaH- what.. [121], Literary evidence of traditional form of theatre, dance and music dates back to the 3rd century BCE. Dhotis are usually made out of cotton for more everyday use, but the more expensive silk dhotis are used for special functions like festivals and weddings. The mingling among the people produced a community called Coloreds. It was a bold step taken by the committee of the Cal. Rig-veda, Book 1, Hymn 162, Verse 18 - Ashwamedh Yagna, to honor a horse, after serving the ruler, was being carried out. "[44], As a proto-language, the Proto-Dravidian language is not itself attested in the historical record. They are spread over the states of, Kurukh are spread over parts of the states of. It also mentions that the league of Tamil kingdoms had been in existence for 113 years by that time. The Europeans went to South Africa. The singular was not indicated by any sign, while the plural had two markersnamely, human plural, which was represented by the suffix *-Vr, and nonhuman plural, which was represented by the suffixes *-(n)k(k)a and *- or by a combination of these, *-(n)k(k)a. The dilema of the historians continue. Many villagers have only a lungi as their article of clothing. The third century BCE onwards saw the development of many great empires in South India like Pandya, Chola, Pallava, Satavahana, Chalukya, Kakatiya and Rashtrakuta. 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. post-dating Harappan decline) stone celt allegedly marked with Indus signs has been considered by some to be significant for the Dravidian identification. 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. A C Bouquet, in his book, Comparative Religion (Pub. (2019) conclude that ANI and ASI were formed in the 2nd millennium BCE. The Agamas are non-Vedic in origin[92] and have been dated either as post-Vedic texts[93] or as pre-Vedic compositions. In India, too, the mingling with the locals resulted in the population of Anglo-Indians. India has always been known for its mixed tribes. These conquerors were interested in conquering parts in North India, dismantling the local cultures and pushing the indigenous Dravidian tribes of Dravidians towards thesouth. 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. To-date, as the proverb goes - Truth is one, lies are many - not a single story has turned out with any substance. But now the historians had second thoughts and exercised their birth-right to make alterations in historical details. Ararat. Proto-Dravidian *to/*to occurs in compounds with the words for 10, 100, 1,000 as second members with the meaning 1/10th lesscomparable to Tamil to-u 90 (or 10 less 100), toyiram 900 (100 less 1,000), and on-pattu 9 (1 less 10). However, Telugu tom-badi (from *to-pat) 90 implies that *to means 9. The South Dravidian languages have cognates that support the first, 1/10th less, meaning. South Asian Studies, 13(1), pp 8797. [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. Between the three of them, they have produced world's alphabets, excluding the Chinese and the related ones. While the English word Dravidian was first employed by Robert Caldwell in his book of comparative Dravidian grammar based on the usage of the Sanskrit word drvia in the work Tantravrttika by Kumrila Bhaa,[31] the word drvia in Sanskrit has been historically used to denote geographical regions of southern India as whole. RIGVEDA - bOOK 1 HYMN 162 VERSE 18 - Vaidya being instructed to attend the injury to the RIB-CAGE of a horse, consisting of 34 ribs. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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. No wonder Khalistan and Kashmir movement are so popular. The major grammatical categories are nouns and verbs. Indian history has not yet been written by the original ionhabitants of India - the Dravidians. In support of the above, Spencer Wells, in his book, The Journey of Man - A Genetic Odyssey (2002), tried to establish that the source of the human gene was in Africa. What interests do the people of India have, to continue with the British policy after the Independence? (2009) principally reflects gene flow from Iran and the Middle East". He further states that, 'by the year 1619 AD, a million or more black slaves had already been brought to the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the Caribbean and South America'. The movements of the people have been taking place in the distant past, e.g. It is now a general knowledge that the river did exist, supported by the scientific researches, satellite photography and carbon dating etc that have been carried out. 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. Carnatic music originated in the Dravidian region. It was used by him to include a specific group of people who are native speakers of 19th century Indo-European languages. 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'.