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. Sanskrit language - HEAT is most where the FIRE is. Looks -Aryans are fair skinned as compared to Dravidians. IVC - Some historians have opined that people from OUTER SPACE have developed these advanced cities. [126] In South India various types of martial arts are practised like Kalaripayattu and Silambam. [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. or by adding an interrogative particle (*-) to the phrase or clause questioned. The British and the historians had interests, to rule India, as well as, to convert the Indians to Christianity. [56] Gallego Romero notes that Indians who are lactose-tolerant show a genetic pattern regarding this tolerance which is "characteristic of the common European mutation". The Hathigumpha inscription of the Kalinga ruler Kharavela refers to a T(ra)mira samghata (Confederacy of Tamil rulers) dated to 150 BCE. This book should provide some information about the origin of the people, about their journey to the Promise Land, and about their deeds to uplift the dire situation of the indigenous people. 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). As noted above, in most of the languages, adverbs of time and place carry case inflection like nouns but lack gender and number distinction. #notmypresident. Indo-Aryan and Dravidian are by far the largest of these four, both in terms of number of speakers as well as in terms of their spatial distribution across South Asia. [96] Sivan was also seen as the supreme God. As no "ASI" or "AASI" ancient DNA is available, the indigenous Andamanese (exemplified by the Onge, a possibly distantly related population native to the Andaman Islands) is used as an imperfect proxy. They built no towns, their agriculture was primitive, the art of writing was unknown to them'. This led to the loss of the original inclusive-exclusive difference (later restored through fresh innovations) and was followed by a restructuring of the pronominal system in the first person. The outcome at the last Cal. 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! This sari consists of a cloth wrapped around the waist and draped over the shoulder. [24][note 2][25] Later, a component termed "AASI", found to be the predominant element in ASI, was distinguished in subsequent studies. Telugu has a nativelike form wyi 1,000, but its etymology is uncertain. 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. 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. 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. Malayalis are native to Kerala and Lakshadweep, but are also found in Puducherry and parts of Tamil Nadu. In the plural the masculine pronoun was *aw-ar men (which could include women when referring to mixed groups) and non-masculine *aw-ay others (women, other animates, or things). 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. The dark skinned people are the pioneers of civilizations. The study further showed that the native South Asians, north and south, form a unique group distinct from "Australo-Melanesians". 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. Thus, every European country was racing to justify that there's is the one, the provider of the Mother Tongue'. The last time the linguists went to work to decipher a script was in respect of the Egyptian hieroglyphic script, i.e. Siddhanta Publications. [15][41] In the 1990s, Renfrew and Cavalli-Sforza have also argued that Proto-Dravidian was brought to India by farmers from the Iranian part of the Fertile Crescent,[14][42][43][note 1] but more recently Heggerty and Renfrew noted that "McAlpin's analysis of the language data, and thus his claims, remain far from orthodoxy", adding that Fuller finds no relation of Dravidian language with other languages, and thus assumes it to be native to India. Aryans-North Indians are Sanscrit language based speakers and Dravidyans-south Indians are Tamil language based speakers. Both groups of these Indi [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. The generally accepted concept of Aryans in India today, is that they are the ones living in northern India and Dravidians in Southern India. WebThe difference between the so-called Aryans of the north and Dravidians of the south is not a racial division. QUESTION : What are the differences between Aryans and Dravidians? ANSWER : Difference between Aryans and Dravidians as elucidated. 1) Place of Ori The earliest Dravidian literature that we know, the Tamil Sangam Poems of the early 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. 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. Day People vs. Night People: What do they do? In this, they have failed miserably to locate a single European country that could provide the required qualifications - culture and language. The origins of the Dravidians are a "very complex subject of research and debate." 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'. 1941), states that 'the first wave of Nordics believed to have passed into India somewhere about 1700 BC, others followed in succession'. The linguists of the world tried every possible which way to justify their assumption but failed to connect the Indus script with Dravidian origin. There was scarcity of white women, too, resulted in the traffic in women. After adulthood girls begin using the sari. Was the mingling with the 'war-like Aryans (Van Loon)' voluntary or forced? But, now, the termite infested cupboard was falling apart. This mother goddess was conceived as a virgin, one who has given birth to all and one, and were typically associated with Shaktism. 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). [23] Many of these features are already present in the oldest known Indo-Aryan language, the language of the Rigveda (c. 1500 BCE), which also includes over a dozen words borrowed from Dravidian. Rigveda is a huge scripture, consisting of ten books. 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. WebHistorical language contact between the Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages of South Asia has been written about extensively. The British managed to snatch Surat from the Portuguese in 1690, and establish a trading post (English Factory) there. Many times these lungis are tube-shaped and tied around the waist, and can be easily tied above the knees for more strenuous activities. He looked at the sound system of South Arabic and Old Aramaic age-wise, compared with the Indus script, and bingo, Dr Rao managed to decipher the Indus Script, and the outcome has been accepted, among others, by the University of California, Berkeley, in 1986. In the process of simplifying the system, the latter three suffixes have come to be used as common plural for both human and nonhuman nouns. WebThe most important characteristic features of this type are broad-head, dark complexion with yellowish tinge and scanty hair on face and body. Portuguese explorers like Vasco de Gama were motivated to expand mainly for the spice markets of Calicut (today called Kozhikode) in modern-day Kerala. White skinned people of the world are late comers. Some of the dark-skinned descendants of Ham went to India, later in 1500BC, were followed by fair-skinned descendants of Shem and Japhet. Under the guidance of St. Francis Xavier, Inquisition was carried out. 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. 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 meaning of the word Arya is given as 'noble' in English dictionaries. The framers of the fiction of the Aryans still had some way to go. Aryan and Dravidian are English words, concocted by the British rulers and their historians, to describe the ancient people of India. Khorne is quite right in stating the ethnicity of the Iranians. There are many different styles of sari draping varying across regions and communities. Stupid me, they were from a planet out in space! Swami Vivekananda %3E In connection with this I want to discuss one question which it has a particular bearing with regard to Madras. There is a th 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. The object of the AIT was to demean the Indians. [51], Recent studies have shown that the proto-Dravidians were descendants of neolithic farmers, who are suggested to have migrated from the Zagros Mountains in modern-day Iran to northern South Asia some 10,000 years ago. [48] In fact, Dr. David Reich states that sometime between 1,900 and 4,200 years ago, "profound, pervasive convulsive mixture [between the ANI and ASI] occurred, affecting every Indo-European and Dravidian group in India without exception. If the word 'Aryan' is related to 'arya', the meaning of Aryan would be 'a person of noble character'. [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]. These languages are Telugu, Malayali, Kannada and Tamil. [63], Shinde et al. [23]Genetically, the Ancient Indus Valley people were composed of an Iranian Farmer- Gatherers and Indian Hunter-Gatherers or "First 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'. 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. 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. Ignorant or Good Vs. Aryan-Dravidian divide a myth: Study. They also have distinct cultural beliefs different from those of the Aryans. Drunk Driving: Awake at the Wheel. Imagine being a Kashmiri/Punjabi aryan and sharing a country with people who look like this. The dilema of the historians continue. Re. Dr Ambedkar's researches into Rigveda conclusively proved that the race of Aryans did not come from outside India. Tuluvas are found in coastal Karnataka and Northern Kerala (Kasaragodu district) in. According to Mondal et al. 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. The numerals 1 to 5 and 8 to 10 consist of one of several roots plus one of three fused neuter morphemes, *t, *tt, or *k, thus *on-tu (roots *r/*or-, *on-) 1; *ir-a-u (*r/*ir-V) 2; *muH-n-tu/*m-n-tu (*muH-/*m-) 3; *nl-n(kk)u (*nl/*nal-V-) 4; *caym-tu (*cay-) 5; *e-u (*e-) 8; *paH-tu (*paH-) 10. It has praised profusely, the river Sarasvati. AIT refers to a period of few thousand years, written up in the last two centuries. 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. 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 last Ice-Age commenced to recede 10000 years ago (8000 BC). Thus, Zebu or Bos Indicus cattle did not come from the West, if anything, it is related to the cattle East of the Indus. [53] On the other hand, there is also evidence that Dravidians originated from the ASI-related populations.[54]. Bhikhubhai, great stuff. One should be proud of one's province and be respectful to the people of other provinces. It is pointed out that 'the word Aryans was brutally used by Hitler during world war second to attain exclusion of Jews and other ethnicities (2nd para). [30] In Amaravati in present-day Andhra Pradesh there is an inscription referring to a Dhamila-vaniya (Tamil trader) datable to the 3rd century CE. The forms *ctu (*cat-V-) 6 and * (*e-V-) 7 are also used with neuter agreement. He says that, 'u ntil 1922, we had few records of human life in India older than the days of the Aryan-speaking invaders apart from a handful of scattered relics of the Stone Age. 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'. Culture [17] It is one of the earliest sites with evidence of farming and herding in South Asia. The Indo-Aryan languages occupy roughly the northern two thirds of the subcontinent. In 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. The Proto-Dravidian gender was presumably masculine versus non-masculine, in both the singular and the plural. The word 'arya' was part of the words, e.g. 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. 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. (Not Brahmins Vs Dalits .Gods dont have Caste idiots). In History of the World, W N Weech follows it up. Dravidians follow Hinduism more religiously as compared to Aryans. 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. In the Buddhist Jataka story known as Akiti Jataka there is a mention to Damila-rattha (Tamil dynasty). [111], Among the early Dravidians, the practice of erecting memorial stones, Natukal and Viragal, had appeared, and it continued for quite a long time after the Sangam age, down to about the 16th century. The third century BCE onwards saw the development of many great empires in South India like Pandya, Chola, Pallava, Satavahana, Chalukya, Kakatiya and Rashtrakuta. 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. The SUN is the culprit providing darker skin to the people, living along the equatorial belt,to be able to tolerate the stronger rays. Demonstrative pronouns represent the gender differences best. land without rivers. A comprehensive description of Parpola's work until 1994 is given in his book Deciphering the Indus Script. 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. The oblique stem is used in genitive meaning and can occur as the first member of noun + noun compounds. Up, Drowsy Driving vs. Lockard: "The encounters that resulted from Aryan migration brought together several very different peoples and cultures, reconfiguring Indian society. 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.. The final -n and -m represent singular and plural. In addition, adjectives precede the nouns they qualify, nouns carry postpositions and not prepositions, adverbs precede verbs, and auxiliaries follow the main verb. In India, too, the mingling with the locals resulted in the population of Anglo-Indians. Now he must show to the world that Europeans can correct the history, too. 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. The Brahmins (7% of the Hindu population), Kshatriya and Vaishyas (23%) and the Shudras (70%), all had tasks allocated to them. Re. 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). He was a law-maker, the Father of the Indian Constitution. The melting of the ice created lakes and filled the rivers, in turn, the water was emptied in the sea, raising the sea level. Nagalingam, Pathmarajah (2009). Aryans have a north Indian accent whereas Dravidians have a south Indian accent. Dept. The Europeans observed that many of the Sanskrit words had uncanny resemblance to the words in many of the European languages. They are fair, dark with characteristically large eyes. I hope, there are many more like you and who also share. [108], The cult of the mother goddess is treated as an indication of a society which venerated femininity. Examples are the Madisar, specific to Tamil Brahmin Community, and the Mundum Neriyathum. The European breed is known as Taurine (Bos Taurus). Aryans constitute 72% of the Indian population and the rest is made up of Dravidians. TNN / Sep 25, 2009, 01:16 IST. The meaning categories are male human (man), female human (woman), human (people), and others, the last contrasting with the three former categories. [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. Thus, the statement that we stated off with is not applicable to the people of South India. It is suggested that the language was spoken in the 4th millennium BCE, and started disintegrating into various branches around 3rd millennium BCE. The debate over the Aryan-Dravidian Distinction: Aryan Invasion and Migration Theory: This theory which has been floated by the British has attributed to the Aryan- Dravidian distinction and has been always been contested by the political class. 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. With the growing influence of Persian and Sufi music on Indian music, a clear distinction in style appeared from the 12th century onwards. hunter-gatherers sharing a common root with the Andamanese); and Iranian hunter-gatherers who arrived in India before the advent of farming. 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. Thus, the blue-eyed people of Major Yeats-Brown, turned into groups of different blood, all speaking a common tongue, the Mother of all Indo-European languages. Or were they all dark-skinned people? 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'. The reasons could be to retire a horse because of old age or due to some injury while serving his master. ADVERTISEMENT As a proponent of the Dravidians, and the supposed historic Over many centuries a fusion of. It is then stressed that 'it does not mean a common racial stock' and further explains that 'they were of different blood'. [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. The journey was going on smoothly, suddenly they came across an obstacle - a competion was on between Mount Vindhya and Mount Meru - who is the tallest? Thus,every aspect of the human life, that is considered beneficial to the human society, was qualified by the word 'arya'. 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. Six languages are currently recognized by India as Classical languages and four of them are Dravidian languages Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. [64], The Indus Valley civilisation (2,6001,900 BCE) located in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent is sometimes identified as having been Dravidian. In Dravidian, gender is primarily determined by the meaning of the noun or pronoun and secondarily by certain formal features. The linguists did not achieve success until Napoleon Bonaparte came along and conquered Egypt in 1779, brought home, a Rosetta Stone, that enabled the linguists to decipher the Egyptian script. The Rigveda was the so-called First Book of the Aryans. The population of the world then was estimated at 5 million (The Economist - Dec 24, 2005), mostly settled around river deltas. 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. Jewish Wedding vs. Christian Wedding: Wedding Comparison, Narendra Modi vs. Nitish Kumar: Top CMs of India, Land of snake charmers to land of intellectuals: Transition of India, National Debt Of Portugal vs. Greece Compared. [65] Already in 1924, when announcing the discovery of the IVC, John Marshall stated that (one of) the language(s) may have been Dravidic. [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. Dravidians have a different set of ethnic beliefs. This designation is not restricted by the shade of the skin, knowledge, wisdom, wealth, profession nor sex. [27] Traders and religious leaders travelled to southeast Asia and played an important role in the cultural Indianisation of the region. [82][80][83][84], Throughout Tamilakam, a king was considered to be divine by nature and possessed religious significance. Webshow no Dravidian ethnic features whatever, and are not easily distinguishable from the other peoples of the region. India was no Americas - India had to deal with invasion for centuries. Some linguists explain this anomaly by arguing that Middle Indo-Aryan and New Indo-Aryan were built on a Dravidian substratum. There were two numbers in Proto-Dravidian, singular and plural. Web-Dravidians are not very well-versed in Hindi. These conquerors were not builders. 2017, based on paternal DNA analysis,[62] Indians are most closely related to southern Europeans and people in the Levant and that this relation existed already before Steppe migration: These results suggest that the European-related ancestry in Indian populations might be much older and more complex than anticipated, and might originate from the first wave of agriculturists or even earlier, Narasimhan et al. Alexander Cunningham, then Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India, saw characters written on seals that had been found in the rubble'. He had no intention nor interest to take any further steps. Who ever came from the West is being given the credit for introducing cattle and horses in India.