Aryans dont constitute the people residing in Northern India only, it also includes now all the people who speak Indo-European languages. 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. The Aryans had no respect for the Indian culture and treated the natives as slaves. The Europeans have been looking for a Mother-Tongue in a far-away places instead of at the source. You probably have umpteen nice things in you. Thus, there has to be some genetic relationships, however, the statement from the researchers was that, 'they could not discern the geographic origin of that population from their data' (India West). They built no towns, their agriculture was primitive, the art of writing was unknown to them'. 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. The framers of the fiction of the Aryans still had some way to go. The reasons could be to retire a horse because of old age or due to some injury while serving his master. Please, do not be unhappy about the darker skin, I have one. [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. [24][note 2][25] Later, a component termed "AASI", found to be the predominant element in ASI, was distinguished in subsequent studies. This sari consists of a cloth wrapped around the waist and draped over the shoulder. 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. Aryans can easily speak Hindi. 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. (2009) principally reflects gene flow from Iran and the Middle East". [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. Lockard: "The encounters that resulted from Aryan migration brought together several very different peoples and cultures, reconfiguring Indian society. 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. He then went on to separate them age-wise. "[44], As a proto-language, the Proto-Dravidian language is not itself attested in the historical record. "[50] Because of this mixing, according to Reich et al., both ANI and ASI ancestry are found all over the subcontinent (in both northern and southern India) in varying proportions, and that "ANI ancestry ranges from 3971% in India, and is higher in traditionally upper caste and Indo-European speakers". He was a law-maker, the Father of the Indian Constitution. The origin of the Sanskrit word drvia is Tamil. The above information was completely negated by two teams of researchers, American and Indian, stating that , 'the South Indians possesses a distinct genetic pattern not found anywhere else in the world' (India West - Oct 30, 2009). 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. Stupid me, they were from a planet out in space! 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. Thus, the ground work was already laid when Lord Macaulay visited India around 1835 to study the educational needs of the Indians. 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. 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. [82][80][83][84], Throughout Tamilakam, a king was considered to be divine by nature and possessed religious significance. 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. Yemen et al. '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. Over many centuries a fusion of. In the 1850s Max Muller introduced the notion of two Aryan races, a western and an eastern one, 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. [109] The temples of the Sangam days, mainly of Madurai, seem to have had priestesses to the deity, which also appears predominantly as a goddess. Thus, the statement that we stated off with is not applicable to the people of South India. Aryans-North Indians are Sanscrit language based speakers and Dravidyans-south Indians are Tamil language based speakers. Both groups of these Indi The details about the horse is very interesting, too. [30] In the Sanskrit tradition the word drvia was also used to denote the geographical region of South India. Aryans are white skinned. 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. It was used by him to include a specific group of people who are native speakers of 19th century Indo-European languages. (Ref: Rigveda, Book ii, Hymn 41, Verses 16/17; Bk vii, 36/6; 95/1 to 6, 96/1). All the historians belonged to the white race, the Europeans. The dhoti is generally white in colour, and occasionally has a border of red, green or gold. [71] Knorozov's suggestion was preceded by the work of Henry Heras, who suggested several readings of signs based on a proto-Dravidian assumption. They also set the caste system in India consisting of 4 general tribes of priests, businessmen and aristocrats and scheduled castes. Looks -Aryans are fair skinned as compared to Dravidians. This indicates there has been no mix of foreign and local DNA. gamaprmya of Ymuncrya, Issue 160 of Gaekwad's Oriental Series. White skinned people of the world are late comers. Thank you, Mr Shah, for appreciating. [94], Chola-style temples consist almost invariably of the three following parts, arranged in differing manners, but differing in themselves only according to the age in which they were executed:[121], Besides these, a south Indian temple usually has a tank called the Kalyani or Pushkarni to be used for sacred purposes or the convenience of the priests dwellings for all the grades of the priesthood are attached to it, and other buildings for state or convenience. Yes, that's what we are! Apparently all the forms were in use dialectally in Proto-Dravidian. Portuguese explorers like Vasco de Gama were motivated to expand mainly for the spice markets of Calicut (today called Kozhikode) in modern-day Kerala. The Dravidian language family is one of the oldest in the world. There was always to and fro movement of people.
Professor on Twitter: "Commis in tamilnadu: play regional divisive h It is then stressed that 'it does not mean a common racial stock' and further explains that 'they were of different blood'. During the Ice-Age, northern half of the Northern Hemisphere was under ice, including inland seas and lakes. Thread: Aryan vs Dravidians - A Myth by Dr. Dr. Subramanian Swamy. The Aryans had no word for brick in their language. 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. [77] Yet, according to Krishnamurti, Dravidian languages may have reached south India before Indo-Aryan migrations. 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). The white race that entered India was called Aryan, because they came via Iran. [24], According to a large craniometric study (Raghavan and Bulbeck et al. India has always been known for its mixed tribes. [112] It was customary for people who sought victory in war to worship these hero stones to bless them with victory. The dilema of the historians continue. Was the mingling with the 'war-like Aryans (Van Loon)' voluntary or forced? Originally saris were worn bare, but during the Victorian era, women began wearing blouse (called a ravike) along with sari. The river had dried up even before the arrival of the Illiterates. The oblique stem is used in genitive meaning and can occur as the first member of noun + noun compounds. [31] Epigraphic evidence of an ethnic group termed as such is found in ancient India where a number of inscriptions have come to light datable from the 6th to the 5th century BCE mentioning Damela or Dameda persons. One cannot have a better example of the historicity of the event that occurred few years after, as well as the scientific knowledge to be able to forecast an event with such accuracy. Who ever came from the West is being given the credit for introducing cattle and horses in India. In Dravidian, gender is primarily determined by the meaning of the noun or pronoun and secondarily by certain formal features. Web-Dravidians are not very well-versed in Hindi. 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. The big Aryan-Dravidian debate: Inventing an invasion that 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 community services, construction services, building of palaces and temples and art-work, etc. 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'. 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 History of the World, W N Weech follows it up. [67][68] The discovery in Tamil Nadu of a late Neolithic (early 2nd millennium BCE, i.e. 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'. As noted above, in most of the languages, adverbs of time and place carry case inflection like nouns but lack gender and number distinction. This proves Aryan invasion theory was wrong. What meaning would you derive from these information? (2019) found that their analysed sample had little to none of the "Steppe ancestry" component associated with Indo-European migrations into India, which occurred after the decline of the IVC. The cattle from Eurasia, popular names being Longhorn and Hereford, have more or less plain back. WebThe most important characteristic features of this type are broad-head, dark complexion with yellowish tinge and scanty hair on face and body. There was one language and unity and happiness. The final element (predicate) in a sentence can be verbal or nominal. All of them are equally important, therefore, no one is higher or lower than the other. There probably always existed linkages among the people living in various parts of the world. [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. It is suggested that the language was spoken in the 4th millennium BCE, and started disintegrating into various branches around 3rd millennium BCE. According to Mondal et al. Wouldn't you say that the Indians are a mix of white, black, red and yellow! These people are supposed to have come to India from the trans-Himalayan regions through the river valleys. The face is typically flat where the eyes are oblique with epicanthic fold. 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. After adulthood girls begin using the sari. post-dating Harappan decline) stone celt allegedly marked with Indus signs has been considered by some to be significant for the Dravidian identification. His followers, upon misbehaving, became the victims of God's anger, resulting in the Great Flood of 2350BC. You may have seen the Indian cattle moving around in the streets, you must have noticed the large hump on its back. The most commonly spoken Dravidian languages are Telugu (), Tamil (), Kannada (), Malayalam (), Brahui (), Tulu (), Gondi and Coorg. #notmypresident. For all these Unis, the hot subject was the 'Comparative Philology'. In Streams of Civilizations, Stanton & Hyma, goes even further and states that, 'in fact, there is so much evidence now to show that, very ancient people were highly skilled, that some people have jumped to the conclusion that they must have come by space-ship from some more civilized planet out in space'. A very interesting story about Agatsya Muni would explain the meaning of the word 'dravid'. The word 'arya' was part of the words, e.g. TNN / Sep 25, 2009, 01:16 IST. 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'. [123] Dance forms such as Bharatanatyam are based on older temple dance forms known as Catir Kacceri, as practised by courtesans and a class of women known as Devadasis.[124]. 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.
What are the differences between Aryans and Dravidians? By innovating a feminine singular *aw-a she (female human), the South Dravidian languages thus restricted the meaning of *a-tu to it (nonhuman animate/thing). 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. The dark skinned people are the pioneers of civilizations. 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. In History of the World, edited by W N Weech (Odhams Press- Pub. But, now, the termite infested cupboard was falling apart. Dept. The melting of the ice created lakes and filled the rivers, in turn, the water was emptied in the sea, raising the sea level. 66 years passed by. reComparison, reCompare, ComparisonEngine and the "vs" symbol are trademarks of MicroTier, Inc, Sign
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. 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. 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'. The object of the AIT was to demean the Indians. There is no bigger punishment for the Europeans and their hisptorians for creating such a FICTION to harm people of other race and their culture. 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. The information below may be of some help to understand better. The Religion of the Agamas. The European breed is known as Taurine (Bos Taurus). Mudumby Narasimhachary (Ed) (1976). Interrogative sentences (questions) are formed by using either an interrogative pronoun or adverb (meaning who, which, when, where, etc.) Aryans have a north Indian accent whereas Dravidians have a south Indian accent. Rosetta Stone is a large slab of stone found at a village by the same name in Egypt. 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. Vedic Sapt-Rishis going around the world with their troupe of helpers, or 20 tribes from the East, only 12 reached its destination, or the westward movements of the Jews, Christians, Parsis, Aghakhanis from persecution, as well as Greeks, Romans and the Chinese coming to Takshila and Nalanda, followed by the children of Japheth and Shem to rule, must have left behind some genetic imprint that can be matched with our friends from the West. [52] According to another study, the neolithic farmers ancestry component forms the main ancestry of modern South Asians. [23], The Dravidian language influenced the Indo-Aryan languages. The name Dravida is the name of the people speaking a [17] It is one of the earliest sites with evidence of farming and herding in South Asia.
Difference Between Aryans and Dravidians One should be proud of one's province and be respectful to the people of other provinces. Hari, it was a search for a Mother Language from which all the Indo-European languages were born, including Sanskrit. It must be, because we are Aryans the Barbarians, and Dravidians the Squat Creatures! 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. (2019), early Dravidians formed as a mixture of Ancient Ancestral South Indians ("AASI" indigenous South Asian hunter-gatherers distantly related to the Andamanese and other East Eurasians), and Neolithic west Asian farmers from Iran.