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	Dravidian - LoveToKnow 1911
		The various Dravidian languages, with the number of speakers returned at the census of 1901, are as follows: Of these Tamil and Malayalam can be considered as two dialects of one and the same language, which is, in its turn, closely related to Kanarese.
		In the north-eastern part of the Dravidian territory, to the east of Chanda and Bhandara, the usual state of affairs is that Dravidian dialects are spoken in the hills while Aryan forms of speech prevail in the plains.
		The oldest known specimen of a Dravidian language occurs in a Greek play which is preserved in a papyrus of the 2nd century A.D. The exact period to which the indigenous literature can be traced back, on the other hand, has not been fixed with certainty.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Dravidian (2235 words)

	Country Information, a world portal on countries, politics and governments
		Dravidian people, Dravidian race or Dravidians are terms that are some times given to people of India (mainly Southern India), Northern Sri Lanka, and parts of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal who currently speak Dravidian languages or are historically assumed to have spoken Dravidian languages but no longer are.
		The identification of the Dravidian people as a separate race arose from the realization by 19th-century Western scholars that there existed a group of languages spoken by people in the south of India, which were completely unrelated to the Indo-Aryan languages prevalent in the north of the country.
		Notably one Dravidian language, Brahui, is spoken in Pakistan as well minor tribal languages are used in Nepal and Bangladesh, perhaps hinting at the language family\'s wider distribution prior to the spread of the Indo-Aryan languages.
	www.asiaiworld.com /wiki-Dravidian_peoples (2414 words)

	The Aryan-Dravidian Controversy
		One of these ideas is that India is a land of two races - the lighter- skinned Aryans and the darker-skinned Dravidians - and that the Dravidians were the original inhabitants of India whom the invading Aryans conquered and dominated.
		Biologically bo th the north and south Indians are of the same Caucasian race, only when closer to the equator the skin becomes darker, and under the influence of constant heat the bodily frame tends to become a little smaller.
		Dravidians do not have to feel that Vedic culture is any more foreign to them than it is to the people of north India.
	www.hindunet.org /hindu_history/ancient/aryan/aryan_frawley_1.html (3577 words)

	he Aryan-Dravidian Controversy By David Frawley
		One of these ideas is that India is a land of two races - the lighter- skinned Aryans and the darker-skinned Dravidians - and that the Dravidians were the original inhabitants of India whom the invading Aryans conquered and dominated.
		The difference between the so-called Aryans of the north and Dravidians of the south is not a racial division.
		Biologically bo th the north and south Indians are of the same Caucasian race, only when closer to the equator the skin becomes darker, and under the influence of constant heat the bodily frame tends to become a little smaller.
	www.indoaryans.org /Aryan-Dravidian-Controversy.html (0 words)

	About Bombay
		In the South of India the ancient and vibrant Dravidian race and cultures are alive and well in their hundreds of millions.
		In the foothills of the Himalayas the East Asian Asiatic race and cultures are amply represented.
		In the North of India the "Caucasian" race of central Asia, Europe and, more recently, the Americas and Australasia, is present in force supplemented, amplified, complemented and intermingled with the ancient Dravidian race of Southern India.
	www.gaybombay.org /misc/aboutbby.html (986 words)

	The mythical race called the Aryans
		The people who are the original inhabitants of Dravidian land (India) and who belong to the Dravidian race by birth alone are the Dravidians even though they have completely forgotten their Dravidian language and went out of the Dravidian land.
		Though the Aryans are denoted as Dravidians since they speak Dravidian language and live in Dravidian country, they are not Dravidians by race.
		But the term 'Aryans' does not denote a race (is not of a race).
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Ithaca/1412/mythicalrace.html (473 words)

	Dravidian origins of Kerala People: People and Culture: by Dr. Zacharias Thundy surveys Kerala's anthropological, ...
		There is general agreement among ethnologists that the Dravidian population is a branch of the Mediterranean race, or at least a closely allied one.
		There is also a wide range of difference in the shape of the skull, the color and texture of the hair, the color of the eyes, and the shape of the nose.
		The Dravidians entered India before the Aryans, before 2000 B.C., after passing through Mesopotamia, Iran, and Baluchistan where the Brahuis, a Dravidian race, still live.
	www.shelterbelt.com /KJ/khdravidians.html (518 words)

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		The so-called Aryans and Dravidian races of India are members of the same Mediterranean branch of the Caucasian race, which prevailed in the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Sumeria and is still the main group in the Mediterranean area, North Africa, and the Middle East.
		Moreover, there cannot be a Dravidian invasion changing the language but not the population of India just like the Aryan invasion, as the idea is far-fetched to happen once but to happen twice in a row in the same region and by the same route is ridiculous.
		Dravidian kings historically have called them- selves Aryans and trace their descent through Manu (who in the Matsya Purana is regarded as originally a south Indian king).
	www.vhp.org /englishsite/hbharat/mythofaryaninvasionPartIII.htm (5828 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Dravidian people
		Dravidian people, Dravidian race or Dravidians are terms that are some times given to people of mainly Southern India, Northern Sri Lanka, and parts of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal who currently speak Dravidian languages or are historically assumed to have spoken Dravidian languages but no longer do.
		The identification of the Dravidian people as a separate race arose from the realization by 19th-century Western scholars that there existed a group of languages spoken by people in the south of India, which are very different from the Indo-Aryan languages prevalent in the north of the country.
		Dravidian as a racial term is also used extensively by the government of Bangladesh to indicate a founding people of the country as well as by the government of Pakistan.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Dravidian_race (1429 words)

	The Dravidian Problem - M.D.Raghavan
		The first of these theories that the Dravidians are the children of the soil, takes us back to the days of pre-history and beyond to the geologic eras, to the Gondwanaland of the Perm Carboniferous Age and to the submerged continent of Lemuria, the land mass considered to have once covered either side of India.
		The Dravidian problem has so many ramifications, that in the very nature of the subject, it is hard to come to a finality on the implications of the problem.
		All that we are clear about, is the linguistic status of the Dravidian family of languages, and of Tamil in particular, in the days of the Sangam Age, closing phase of the pre-Christian era and the early centuries of the Christian era.
	www.tamilnation.org /heritage/dravidianproblem.htm (4109 words)

	National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR)
		By flying in the face of the distinctions between race, language and culture, it is seeking to undo the conclusions reached by the researches of several generations of anthropologists.
		In both caste and race theories, there is an attitude of the so-called higher or superior groups that their culture is superior to all other cultures and all the other groups should be judged according to their culture.
		For caste, like race, is based on the notion that socially defined groups of people have inherent, natural qualities or "essences" that assign them to social positions, make them fit for specific duties and occupations; it is their swadharma to carry out these duties.
	www.dalits.org /WCARArticles.htm (13564 words)

	THE ARYAN QUESTION REVISITED
		Similarly you cannot talk about a Dravidian race because once again the notion Dravidian race is based on language group, the Dravidian language group and it is incorrect to equate the two.
		They also accept the theory of the Dravidian race on the basis of Dravidian languages and suggest that the people that were conquered were probably Dravidian speaking and they, as the popular theory has it, were pushed to the South where they settled down eventually and became the major group.
		Remember I told you that the argument was that the Arya race came and conquered the local race of the dasa.
	members.tripod.com /ascjnu/aryan.html (12454 words)

	Tamil Nadu Information
		The history of the Tamils presents an exciting pageant of a powerful civilization whose origin dates hack to ancient times.
		However, with the advent of the Aryans, the Dravidians were pushed back into the Deep South where they ultimately settled.
		As is the case with most of the early history of the state, it is impossible to pin-point the exact period, when the great ‘Tamil Sangam (Academy) flourished, though it can he said with some certainty that two Sangams were held well before the Christian era and the third between 100 and 250 AD.
	www.indiaandindians.com /tamilnadu/tamil_nadu.php (255 words)

	Kerala,Kerala Tourism,Kerala India Tours
		Original inhabitants were animists, followed by the Dravidians.
		In 1947, it was the turn of the British to pack their bags.
		The Malayali majority belong to the Dravidian group (local race) of early Indian peoples.
	kerala.indiantravelportal.com (670 words)

	TUJL - The Aryan-Dravidian Controversy
		Lakshmi is portrayed as pink, Saraswati as white, Kali as blue-fl, or Yama, the God of death, as green.
		Biologically both the north and south Indians are of the same Caucasian race, only when closer to the equator the skin becomes darker, and under the influence of constant heat the bodily frame tends to become a little smaller.
		The Aryans and Dravidians are part of the same culture and we need not speak of them as separate.
	www.fortunecity.com /rivendell/ultima/419/the_aryan_dravidian_controversy.htm (0 words)

	Dravidians and Africans
		This long-headed and medium sized race is considered to be one of the oldest offshoots of the so-called Mediterranean race, tough on their way from the Mediterranean to India they were much mixed with other peoples and acquired new characteristics.
		Dravidians and Sino-Tibetans came later, the former from the North-West and the latter from the east.
		This race is characterized by flish brown complexion, long head, long straight and narrow face etc. The racial features of these peoples are testified not only by anthropological considerations but also by the homogeneity of cultural considerations by the study of their monuments artifacts and tools unearthed in those regions.
	arutkural.tripod.com /tolcampus/drav-african.htm (10819 words)

	Dravidian India
		It is therefore contended that the bronze and iron age culture of Adichanallur is that of the early Dravidians.
		Investigations in relation to race show it to be possible that Southern India was once the passage ground by which the ancient progenitors of Northern and Mediterranean races proceeded to the parts of the globe which they now inhabit.
		But once their race had been blended with the Dravidian, the mixed stock which resulted from the union, found itself possessed of the means of putting thoughts into visible concrete form.
	www.saxakali.com /southasia/dravidian_india.htm (8788 words)

	The Dravidian movement
		Some will say the non-Brahman and Dravidian movements could not succeed because they were, in the end, ``bourgeois democratic.'' Some will point to the lack of a full economic and political vision - the movements focussed on ``identity'' issues but had no economic programme different from the Nehru Congress.
		And, in projecting a ``Dravidian'' identity and rooting it in what was perceived of as the culture of the Tamil people, he succeeded in giving a powerful political thrust to this mass-based social alternative.
		He carefully characterised the enemy not as ``Brahmans'' but as ``Brahmanism,'' which he harshly attacked but defined not in terms of a specific group and simply as ``the negation of the values of liberty, equality and fraternity.'' But Ambedkar is not heeded by many of his followers on this issue today.
	www.ambedkar.org /gail/Dravidianmovement.htm (2101 words)

	Dravidian race - TheBestLinks.com - Buddhism, Dravidian languages, Hinduism, India, ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dravidian race, Buddhism, Dravidian languages, Hinduism, India, Race, Sri Lanka...
		The early Indus Valley civilization (Harappan and Mohenjo Daro) is presumed to have been Dravidian.
		Yet all discussion of Aryan or Dravidian "races" remained highly controversial in India.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Dravidian_race.html (179 words)

	IndiaWin (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This suggests that the Dravidian branch of the Mediterranean race must have lived in South India for some thousands of years to make this adjustment, and the same thing could be said of the people of North India as well if we would make them originally light-skinned invaders from the north.
		Dravidian kings historically have called themselves Aryans and trace their descent through Manu (who in the Matsya Purana is regarded as originally a south Indian king).
		The originator of the Dravidian language theory was Bishop Caldwell, the author of the highly influential Comparative Grammar of Dravidian Languages (1856, 1875).
	groups.msn.com /IndiaWin/socialissues.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=1158 (7573 words)

	The Hindu : Race and caste
		In his book, ``Race, Language and Culture'', he established conclusively with a wealth of empirical material the distinction between race which is a biological category with physical markers and social groupings based on language, religion, nationality, style of life or status.
		By flying in the face of the distinctions between race, language and culture, it is seeking to undo the conclusions reached by the researches of several generations of anthropologists.
		We cannot throw out the concept of race by the front door when it is misused for asserting social superiority and bring it in again through the back door to misuse it in the cause of the oppressed.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2001/03/10/stories/05102523.htm (1383 words)

	On Tamil Militarism: Bishop Caldwell & the Tamil Dravidians - Sangam.org
		On Tamil Militarism: Bishop Caldwell & the Tamil Dravidians - Sangam.org
		The intention of this study however is to show that the fundamental tenets of the nascent phase of the Dravidian ideology were essentially linked to the political and cultural legacies of the British attempt to demilitarize Tamil society.
		Bishop Robert Caldwell in laying the foundation of the Dravidian movement also endeavoured and partially succeeded in dispersing the impression that the Tamils who, only a few years before his time were thought of as being "prone to the habit of war", were a peace loving and industrious nation.
	www.sangam.org /articles/view2/?uid=1033 (2172 words)

	RaceandHistory.com : African Presence in Asia
		The eventual triumph of the Aryans and the subsequent rise of Vedic Dharma were important elements in the survival of the race, including its phenotype and traceable aspects of culture, on the sub-continent.
		The large numbers of these Dravidians were also a result of a European classification based on phenotypic similarity.
		Many incoming Africans being racially mixed may have resembled the standard Dravidian phenotype to Europeans, however many were in fact not Dravidians at all, having arrived in many later incursions.
	www.raceandhistory.com /selfnews/viewnews.cgi?newsid1101952209,16732,.shtml (3157 words)

	ACS: Subject Definitions - Race (Site not responding. Last check: )
		If an individual did not provide a race response, the race or races of the householder or other household members were assigned using specific rules of precedence of household relationship.
		For example, if race was missing for a natural-born child in the household, then either the race or races of the householder, another natural-born child, or the spouse of the householder were assigned.
		If race was not reported for anyone in the household, the race or races of a householder in a previously processed household were assigned.
	www.census.gov /acs/www/UseData/Def/Race.htm (2627 words)

	The Myth of Aryan Invasion of India
		The languages of South India are Dravidian, which is a different linguistic group than the Indo-European languages of the North of the subcontinent.
		This suggests that the Dravidian branch of the Mediterranean race must have lived in South India for some thousands of years to make this adjustment, and the same thing could be said of the people of North India as well if we would make them originally light-skinned invaders from the north.
		Dravidian kings historically have called themselves Aryans and trace their descent through Manu (who in the Matsya Purana is regarded as originally a south Indian king).
	www.indiaforum.org /india/hinduism/aryan/page18.html (1513 words)

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