2006-07-21 09:40:54 · 5 answers · asked by lonly_planet1976 3 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology
First of all,there is no such thing as Dravidian Race. According to anthropology, there are only three races. Caucasian, ******* and Mongoloid. It is proven that based on the bone structure of so called Dravidian people closely matched to Caucasian people. So they are essentially Caucasian with dark skin.
Regarding the answers to your question, when there is no such thing as Dravidian race, it can not belong to a non-exist ant race. All this misinformation was propagated by the 19th century racist scholars. Aryan Invasion Theory is debunked now.
A quote from the link below:
"Strictly speaking there is no Dravidian race, although there is a Dravidian family of languages, and one may even loosely speak of a Dravidian culture. The confusion of racial and cultural categories has been an unfortunate feature of much of nineteenth century ethnology. It persists among educated laymen who continue to speak with confidence about the Dravidian race, if not the Aryan race."
2006-07-24 06:59:43 · answer #1 · answered by enlight100 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the conventional interpretation that the Indus Valley civilisation was founded by the people who later were known as the Dravidians, and that the Aryans were invaders from outside of India -- probably originating on the steppes of southern Russia.
Not everyone believes this; quite a few Hindu fundamentalists, and Indian scholars say that this civilisation is Aryan in nature, and represents a remnant of the incredible cities and high described in the Mahabharata
2006-07-21 09:46:39 · answer #2 · answered by P. M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The most recent archaeological evidence has pretty much disproved the whole Aryan invader story.
If there had been such an invasion, you would expect to find someplace in the archaeological record where things changed suddenly. But the changes in cultural artefacts in the region are consistently gradual. So it looks like the Aryan invasions are more legend than fact.
2006-07-21 15:49:48 · answer #3 · answered by Johnny Tezca 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, it came afterwards..read the books of a guy called Stephen Knapper, the "Eastern answers for the mystery of life" series. Good reading!
2006-07-21 09:52:46 · answer #4 · answered by Fabulous, young and broke! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that's what I've read. Can neither prove nor disprove it though.
2006-07-21 09:46:07 · answer #5 · answered by stevenB 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋