[112] It was customary for people who sought victory in war to worship these hero stones to bless them with victory. All that the other three did not do! [77] Yet, according to Krishnamurti, Dravidian languages may have reached south India before Indo-Aryan migrations. The samples analysed by Narasimhan et al. 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. Would the ancestors of these 16th, 17th century Europeans have any different characters? 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. Dravidian is a regional race from the south of India. There are around 14 Aboriginal tribes mentioned in ancient texts, one of them being Dravidas. They are also found in large numbers in Middle East countries, the Americas and Australia. The melting of the ice created lakes and filled the rivers, in turn, the water was emptied in the sea, raising the sea level. [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]. 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. Was there any fair-skinned population at the time of the Aryan arrival around 1500 BC? Many literary works were composed in Carnatic style and it soon spread wide in the Dravidian regions. The present Dravidians, also composed of similar genetic origin-from Indigenous Indian Hunter Gatherers and Neolithic west Asian farmer-gatherers from Ancient Iran, while present-day Dravidian speakers also carry a small portion of steppe pastoralist and additional to the AASI (first populants of the Indian subcontinent) ancestry.[24][25][26]. 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). EQUUS SIVALENSIS, South East Asian breed has 17 pairs of ribs, where as Equus Przevaalskii, Central Asian and European breed have 18 pairs of ribs. All other higher numerals are borrowed from Sanskrit. Day People vs. Night People: What do they do? The most interesting part of this fiction is when did the Aryans come to India? The most commonly spoken Dravidian languages are Telugu (), Tamil (), Kannada (), Malayalam (), Brahui (), Tulu (), Gondi and Coorg. (10) The Santal and Bhuiya tribes both speak Mundari, whereas the Oraons speak a Dravidian language. Alexander Cunningham, then Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India, saw characters written on seals that had been found in the rubble'. Murugan (also known as Seyyon) was glorified as the red god seated on the blue peacock, who is ever young and resplendent, as the favoured god of the Tamils. Aryan and Dravidian was the British colonial propaganda, they used this theory to attack basic of Hinduism and Indian nationalism. No such thing ha The Portuguese already had a foot-hold in Goa, the Capital of their Eastern Empire. Yes, that's what we are! The historians treated Persia as one of the transit points to India. Aryans have a north Indian accent whereas Dravidians have a south Indian accent. The lungi is usually everyday dress, used for doing labour while dhoti is used for more formal occasions. Was the mingling with the 'war-like Aryans (Van Loon)' voluntary or forced? [14][15][16][17][18] According to Narasimhan et al. He also looked for the word 'arya' (Aryan), and possible meaning attached to it. Or were they all dark-skinned people? 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. [85] Some of those for which Dravidian etymologies are certain include kulya "nest", kulpha "ankle", daa "stick", kla "slope", bila "hollow", khala "threshing floor". The Indo-Aryan languages occupy roughly the northern two thirds of the subcontinent. The details about the horse is very interesting, too. [44] Renfrew and Bahn conclude that several scenarios are compatible with the data, and that "the linguistic jury is still very much out. Under the guidance of St. Francis Xavier, Inquisition was carried out. The river had dried up even before the arrival of the Illiterates. 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. 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'. In this, they have failed miserably to locate a single European country that could provide the required qualifications - culture and language. [122] Ancient literary works, such as the Cilappatikaram, describe a system of music. [24][note 2][25] Later, a component termed "AASI", found to be the predominant element in ASI, was distinguished in subsequent studies. Siddhanta Publications. The classic case is where Mc Neill (A World History - 1967) states that 'the war-like invaders destroyed the Indus cities around 1500 BC, inaugurated a dark and barbarous age in India', where as, just a decade after, Hownslar and Smart (People and our World - A study of World History - 1977), states that 'Mohenjo-daro and Harappa had been abandoned by 1500 BC' and that 'they might have been destroyed by a series of floods of the Indus river'. Genetics and archaeogenetics of South Asia, Non-resident Indian and Overseas Citizen of India, History and Archaeology, Volume 1, Issues 12, "200-Year Drought Doomed Indus Valley Civilization", "The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia", "A-11 Individual Scheduled Tribe Primary Census Abstract Data and its Appendix", "Global Religious Populations, 19102010", "Do you speak Telugu? He notes that there are two scenarios for the origin and spread of Dravidians. All these negotiations are in respect of stories that these '19th century British Imperial science', and historians have created to demean the people and derogate their culture. 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. 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 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. The Spanish, the English, the Dutch and the French were also caught up in the TRAFFIC IN MEN'. All of them are equally important, therefore, no one is higher or lower than the other. 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. Kollywood and Tollywood produce most films in India.[125]. Van Loon, like any other historians, avoided to answer any questions regarding their original home, nor about the language they spoke. [126] In South India various types of martial arts are practised like Kalaripayattu and Silambam. [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. (Ref: Rigveda, Book ii, Hymn 41, Verses 16/17; Bk vii, 36/6; 95/1 to 6, 96/1). Who ever came from the West is being given the credit for introducing cattle and horses in India. Web0:00 / 7:44 Aryans vs. Dravidians" is a Myth | Dr. Subramanian Swamy ji The Festival of Bharat 275K subscribers Subscribe 653K views 4 years ago #Dravidian #Aryan The The Religion of the Agamas. The British adopted different tactics, resulted in the now famous policy of Divide and Rule. The earliest Dravidian literature that we know, the Tamil Sangam Poems of the early 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. Nouns carry number and gender and are inflected for case (role in the sentence, such as subject, direct object, or indirect object), as are pronouns and numerals, which are subclasses of nouns. Toda and Erukala (a dialect of Tamil) of South Dravidian and Brahui of North Dravidian have lost gender and preserved only number. 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). [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. I must inform you, Ben, that Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT), has become part of the subject 'history', and is being taught to children all over the world. [96] Early iconography of Murugan[97] and Sivan[98][99][100] and their association with native flora and fauna goes back to the Indus Valley Civilisation. [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. Re. [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 also set the caste system in India consisting of 4 general tribes of priests, businessmen and aristocrats and scheduled castes. Unlike Indo-Aryan speakers, most Dravidian women do not cover their head with the pallu except in areas of North Karnataka. Aryans and Dravidians have different accents. The two groups (ANI and ASI) extensively mixed in India between 4,200 and 1,900 years ago (2200 BCE 100 CE). A C Bouquet, in his book, Comparative Religion (Pub. [27] Traders and religious leaders travelled to southeast Asia and played an important role in the cultural Indianisation of the region. 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. WebThe features of the people of this race are a broad head? ADVERTISEMENT As a proponent of the Dravidians, and the supposed historic Such cattle are named Zebu (Bos Indicus). This page was last edited on 16 February 2023, at 22:46. One of the events mentioned in the Mahabharat is Lord Krishna's instructions to his Sarthi, to go to Dwarika to inform the citizens, of the imminent submergence of the city due to rise in sea-level. If instead the meaning human (or people) as represented in South Dravidian and in Telugu-Kurukh-Malto were taken as the original plural category in Proto-Dravidian, it would be difficult to think of the social and grammatical contexts that would induce a split of the meaning of people into the two meaningsmen and others (women, other animates, and things)that are found in Central Dravidian and South-Central Dravidian. Sports like Kambala, Jallikattu, Kabaddi, Vallam Kali, Lambs and Tigers and Maramadi remain strong among Dravidian ethnic groups. 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! There are many different styles of sari draping varying across regions and communities. In India, too, the mingling with the locals resulted in the population of Anglo-Indians. The Aryans are trying to rule the world thjrough their International Aryan League. QUESTION : What are the differences between Aryans and Dravidians? 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. 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. South India is surrounded by sea on three sides, where as North India has always been more accessible to the adjoining countries, to and fro movement of the people was continuously taking place. 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. [9], The origins of the Dravidians are a "very complex subject of research and debate. Many of these primitive megaliths are NOT sepulchral but has been found to have been created with mathematical and astronomical perfection. He then went on to separate them age-wise. 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. During this time Portuguese Jesuit priests also arrived and converted a small number of people in modern Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to Catholicism, most notably the Paravars. WebThe most important characteristic features of this type are broad-head, dark complexion with yellowish tinge and scanty hair on face and body. [73] Parpola led a Finnish team in investigating the inscriptions using computer analysis. Examples are the Madisar, specific to Tamil Brahmin Community, and the Mundum Neriyathum. Culture Due to the complexity of draping the sari, younger girls start with a skirt called a pavada. 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! I always thought that the historians are intellectuals who understood the saying, 'A lie repeated often, becomes the truth, and a lie altered often becomes a noose'. He had no intention nor interest to take any further steps. 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. Divorce vs. Talaq: What's the difference? Theatre-dance traditions have a long and varied history whose origins can be traced back almost two millennia to dance-theatre forms like Kotukotti, Kaapaalam and Pandarangam, which are mentioned in an ancient anthology of poems entitled the Kaliththokai. In the 1850s Max Muller introduced the notion of two Aryan races, a western and an eastern one, There are many interesting points raised in your letter, perhaps some others may help us with those. Aryan and Dravidian are English words, concocted by the British rulers and their historians, to describe the ancient people of India. [117][118][119] Traditional Dravidian architecture and symbolism are also based on Agamas. WebAryans and Dravidians have different accents. Anybody can answer that the color of the skin has nothing to do with one's intelligence, nor with the goodness of their hearts. The Hathigumpha inscription of the Kalinga ruler Kharavela refers to a T(ra)mira samghata (Confederacy of Tamil rulers) dated to 150 BCE. The historian, Hendrik Van Loon,in his book 'The Story of Mankind', published 1921, provides an interesting meaning, even though incorrect in my opinion, of the word 'Aryan'. These neolithic farmers migrated from the Fertile Crescent, most likely from a region near the Zagros Mountains in modern-day Iran, to South Asia some 10,000 years ago. The Europeans have been looking for a Mother-Tongue in a far-away places instead of at the source. [106] Tolkappiyar refers to the Three Crowned Kings as the "Three Glorified by Heaven", (Tamil: , Vpuka Mvar). This would explain that the color of the skin is not necessarily the uniting factor. 2022 Beckoning-cat.com. 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. The movements of the people have been taking place in the distant past, e.g. The nominative (subject noun) case is not represented by any suffix. All these societies and universities spent years in studying various languages of the world to determine the Mother Language as well as the place of its origin. 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. The outcome at the last Cal. 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. QUESTION : What are the differences between Aryans and Dravidians? ANSWER : Difference between Aryans and Dravidians as elucidated. 1) Place of Ori [8] According to Krishnamurti, Proto-Dravidian may have been spoken in the Indus civilisation, suggesting a "tentative date of Proto-Dravidian around the early part of the third millennium. 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. Medieval Tamil guilds and trading organisations like the Ayyavole and Manigramam played an important role in the southeast Asia trade. If the system in South-Central and Central Dravidian is understood to reflect the retention of the parent language, the shift of meaning in the plural in the other languages can be explained as a natural one from men to men and women (mixed groups) to women (exclusively), thus generalizing the meaning to any human group. [103] The king was 'the representative of God on earth' and lived in a "koyil", which means the "residence of a god". You may have seen the Indian cattle moving around in the streets, you must have noticed the large hump on its back. [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. People came from far off countries for education at institutions, such as Taksha-shila and Nalanda. One day,working in the vineyard, he got very tired, had a few wine drinks, went to his tent and slept, naked. [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. The Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple located in Indian state of Tamil Nadu is often considered as the largest functioning Hindu temple in the world. There are evidences that many rituals which may seem Hindu today has been loaned from a prior tribal source. 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. Over many centuries a fusion of. Wouldn't you wonder how did this mega change occur in just 175 years? 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. Dravidians follow Hinduism more religiously as compared to Aryans. Has the British rule anything to do with the creation of Aryans and Dravidians? According to Narasimhan et al. 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. Interrogative sentences (questions) are formed by using either an interrogative pronoun or adverb (meaning who, which, when, where, etc.) Please, do not be unhappy about the darker skin, I have one. [25], Yelmen et al. 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 historian, Van Loon,wasn't the only one to have indulged in tracing the journey of this magical race, who in the end got the name Aryan. They built no towns, their agriculture was primitive, the art of writing was unknown to them'. At the time of Lord Macaulay's address to the British Parliament in 1835, the population of India was around 200 million (Times Almanac - 182 million in the year 1804). 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. In Sanskrit, the word 'arya' means noble. His followers, upon misbehaving, became the victims of God's anger, resulting in the Great Flood of 2350BC. It also mentions that the league of Tamil kingdoms had been in existence for 113 years by that time. [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. Examples include Telugu reu pustaklu two books and naluguru manuulu four people (-guru is from *-war). The President clearly expressed the intentions of this organization to be 'to achieve the general extension of our pure faith in Hindustan'. [9], The origins of the Dravidians are a "very complex subject of research and debate". A question would naturally arise in your mind - when did the Aryans developed the language Sanskrit and gifted it to the people of India? Re. Agatsya Muni was all set, ready to go with his work-force and equipment. The Dravidian languages have a decimal system. In History of the World, edited by W N Weech (Odhams Press- Pub. It is then stressed that 'it does not mean a common racial stock' and further explains that 'they were of different blood'. In the Buddhist Jataka story known as Akiti Jataka there is a mention to Damila-rattha (Tamil dynasty). Other gods mentioned were Mayyon and Vaali, now identified with Krishna and Balarama, who are all major deities in Hinduism today. This designation is not restricted by the shade of the skin, knowledge, wisdom, wealth, profession nor sex. 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. 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). 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. 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. 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'. They are spread over the states of, Kurukh are spread over parts of the states of. For all these Unis, the hot subject was the 'Comparative Philology'. These people are supposed to have come to India from the trans-Himalayan regions through the river valleys. However, the negotiations carried out with the CDE in respect of the Text-book Revision, would amply explain, that hard work lies ahead of the negotiators. [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. [82][80][83][84], Throughout Tamilakam, a king was considered to be divine by nature and possessed religious significance. The last time the linguists went to work to decipher a script was in respect of the Egyptian hieroglyphic script, i.e. In the last century or two, cross-breeding has taken place in the West. Should it make any difference to anyone, if there were some gene transfer amongst semitic, japhatic, hamitic and whoever Indians were? [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. The subject matter was, by a simple stroke of pen, changed from Annihilation to Assimilation. [52] According to another study, the neolithic farmers ancestry component forms the main ancestry of modern South Asians. [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. The Dravidian movement and Aryan illusions. The information below may be of some help to understand better. These elements were incorporated later into Hinduism like the legendary marriage of Shiva to Queen Mntchi who ruled Madurai or Wanji-ko, a god who later merged into Indra. [121], Literary evidence of traditional form of theatre, dance and music dates back to the 3rd century BCE. 2013) the native populations of India and Sri Lanka have distinct craniometric and anthropologic ancestry. Dr Ambedkar's researches into Rigveda conclusively proved that the race of Aryans did not come from outside India. [82][80][83][84], Ancient Tamil grammatical works Tolkappiyam, the ten anthologies Pattuppu, and the eight anthologies Euttokai shed light on early ancient Dravidian religion. It is the truth, when the praise comes from an enemy. It is suggested that the language was spoken in the 4th millennium BCE, and started disintegrating into various branches around 3rd millennium BCE. [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. All the historians belonged to the white race, the Europeans. [17] It is one of the earliest sites with evidence of farming and herding in South Asia. The English trading community too, had their presence around 1600. Imagine being a Kashmiri/Punjabi aryan and sharing a country with people who look like this. He found the word ARYA used 33 times in the whole scripture, and in each case, the use did not refer to an ethnicity or a race. The Muni never returned! 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'. Thus when the Aryans the Invisibles, sorry, the Invincible, came to India, the river did not exist. [72], Linguist Asko Parpola writes that the Indus script and Harappan language are "most likely to have belonged to the Dravidian family". It has a Priestly Decree, issued in 197 BC, inscribed in three scripts in two languages, one Greek and two Egyptian scripts. There were two numbers in Proto-Dravidian, singular and plural. David McAlpin, "Toward Proto-Elamo-Dravidian". Each of the major Dravidian languages has its own film industry like Kollywood (Tamil), Tollywood (Telugu), Sandalwood (Kannada), Mollywood (Malayalam).