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To: ckilmer
There's a politically correct drive on in India to deny there ever was an Aryan invasion, which is of course a strictly nationalist tendency found in plenty of places besides India. If there never was such an invasion (despite the ancient documentation in the ancient texts of India itself; I've had someone actually argue the other side of that one), then the Indus Valley civilization must have been of Hindu origin. What are the alternatives? The Dravidians in southern India and Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka has its own megalithic architecture and ancient civil engineering) are descended from the builders of that civilization? :') The hits just keep on comin'.
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9 posted on 08/12/2004 12:08:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Unlike some people, I have a profile. Okay, maybe it's a little large...)
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To: SunkenCiv
When you say 'Dravidians in south India', you've probably assumed a huge misconception right there. To say India has a dark-skinned populace exlusively in the south and fair skinned ones in the north is a fallacy. Over millenia, large numbers of the northern Aryans have migrated to the south assimilated the local culture, and similarly too large populations of Dravidians have either remained firmly in the north or have migrated to, there. For example, in India's most southern state, Kerala, although the general population is dark skinned, there are large swathes of the state with fair skinned, Dravidic language speaking people, with skin lighter than their northern Indian contemporaries. This is evidence for the Aryan migration into all over India, and not just the south.

Another misconception is that of Dravidic languages being classified as such, distinct from indo-european ones. But the fact is ,each of these southern, Dravidian languages have about 50+ % Sanskrit origin, which is an Aryan (Indo-European) tongue.

Here's one famous south Indian singer...

... observe the general eye and skin colour of this 'dravidian'.

15 posted on 08/12/2004 7:42:27 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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