Aryans and Dravidians - A controversial issue

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narasimhan mantri wrote:

 

> The most basic division of the Indian society is of Aryans and

>Dravidians. According to this division, nearly 72% of Indians are

>Aryans and 28% are Dravidians. The north Indians are the

>descendants of Aryans and the south Indians are Dravidians.

 

Assuming that "Dravidian" refers to a race, most north Indias must

have some Dravidian blood, even those belonging to "high" castes.

A lot of South Indians (not just Brahmins) must have "Aryan" blood.

 

Indian culture is to a large degree is a synthesis of the Aryan and

Dravidian elements.

 

>The general script of the Aryan languages is different from the

> general script of Dravidian languages.

 

Scripts in both North and South are related, all being descendants of

Brahmi.

 

>North Indians are Aryans and south Indians are Dravidians. But this

>division isn't proper because of many reasons.

 

In the past the "South" Dakshinapatha (the Dravida country) used to

include Gujarat and Maharashtra. The North/South division is very

approximate.

 

Yashwant

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INDOLOGY, narasimhan mantri <nsmantri> wrote:

> The most basic division of the Indian society is of Aryans

> and Dravidians. According to this division, nearly 72% of

>Indians are Aryans and 28% are Dravidians. The north Indians

>are the descendants of Aryans and the south Indians

> are Dravidians. The languages spoken in five states of

>south India are considered Dravidian languages and

>most of the languages spoken in the north are considered

> Aryan languages. The general script of the Aryan languages

>is different from the general script of Dravidian languages.

 

All the Indian language scripts are of the same origin, and

many letters look similar to their Semitic prototypes.

 

The 70:30 % of division Aryan and Dravidian language speakers tells

the present situation. Listening to World Population Council report

of the year 2002, North India's fertility rate is about 5 and

South India, more literate and into computers heavily, has a fertility

rate of about 2. (1.8 for Tamil Nadu and Kerala).

 

But in ancient times, acc. to Indologists, the ratio of

Aryan:pre-Aryan languages was just the reverse.

In the Indus era civilization, the Aryan language speakers

were not the dominant factor. Only in post-Indus era, Aryans

migrated in. Ingressing in waves, their numbers were rather small.

Large number of Dravidians were co-opted, and the elite dominance

theory is used by Indologists for the vanishing of pre-Aryan

languages in North India.

 

Regards,

N. Ganesan

 

> The Indians also distinguish themselves by the general

>north Indian accent and general south Indian accent.According to

> general Indian legend, the Aryans arrived in north India

>somewhere from Iran and southern Russia at around 1500 BC.

> Before the Aryans, the Dravidian people

> resided in India. They began conquering and taking control over

>regions in north India and at the same time pushed the local

>people southwards or towards the jungles and mountains in north

>India. According to this historical fact the general division of

>Indian society is made. North Indians are Aryans and south

> Indians are Dravidians. But this division isn't proper because

>of many reasons.

> Can anybody justify with this?

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