Today, are all Indians part Aryan and part Dravidian?

Question

From what I hear the Dravidians were the orignial Indians (correct me if I'm wrong). They are the darker skinned people. So does that mean part of my roots could be someplace in Persia?

Answer 1

Dravidians are the oldest species in india and or you can say world over. Those were the days whe human was not civilised. Dravidans we call it here. Other places they might be some different. Basically cultured and non cultured people were there. Cultured people were the ones who formed society, rules, ethics, behavier patterns, schools etc. Cultured ones were and are Aryans. In india it was Aryans and Unaryans. Dravids were amongst the Unaryans. People use to migrate from one place to another in search of batter food and land that suite them. It becomes very difficult to trace the origins. There are people who migrated to India, people migrated from India. There is one more lot who migrated to India and remigrated to some other place, same way people migrated from India and back to India.
Like people go to other countries to in search of a job or got married, and the 2nd or third generation migrated back to India. May be in other country he/she gets married to a different breed. Their children a new breed and come back to India. So Trace is difficult task to fix the origins.
In Mahavir and Buddhas time, Aryans were the people with more tolerance, compassion, friendly, cultured "Susanskrut", enlightened ones. In India, before Mahavira and Buddha, people had different religions and rituals, some of them inhuman, tribal, non civilised processes. Buddha and Mahavira took initiatives and put effort to remove them. Todays Indians are mostly from this era.

Answer 2

There have been multiple theories/controversies regarding the theories of Aryan Invasion in India. There are multiple researches and theories which try to prove that Aryans came down from Europe to India as part of their invasions. The researchers and historians who contradict this have come up with theories that the Aryans in fact were people in India and then had a gradual migration to other parts of the world.
Now answering your question regarding the roots. The conditions that prevailed in India for the past 1000 years were so varied and vivid that you really can't claim a true ancestoral root. There have been Greek, Mughals, Arabs, Portuguese, French, Dutch, British etc who have invaded and had their offsprings here. As pointed above a DNA test would help you approximate your roots. But can never be estimated with 100% certainty!!!

Answer 3

There is no proof that Arya and Dravidians were actual separate races that once occupied India. This is based on the Aryan Invasion theory, a theory that depends on the belief that the world is only 4,000 y/o, that relies on the genealogies of the book of Genesis, and that was the justification for the Holocaust. It is a theory that today is only advanced by Linguists who can't figure out why else Sanskrit didn't have its own word for "elephant." Genetic evidence casts doubt on this theory, and a lot of archaeological evidence is also starting to cast doubt on the theory.

Answer 4

It depends on where the majority of your ancestors come from in India. India is still clearly, and sharply divided between North and South in regards to language, race, and culture. There hasn't really been a large mix between the two groups.

Many people in Northern India descend from the Indo Aryans, an Indo European people who invaded the Indus River valley civilizations in the second millennium BC.

The Dravidians, as you stated correctly, were the original inhabitants of the Indus River valley. They were darker complexioned, and shorter than the Indo-Aryan invaders.

The Indo Aryans were one of many Indo European tribes from central Asia (modern-day Armenia, Persia, and the Ukraine)

Other Indo European groups included Balto-Slavic, Graeco-Aryan, Graeco-Armenian, Italo-Celtic, Thraco-Illyrian, Indo-Hittite.

These groups eventually migrated and spread throughout Europe and Central Asia. Thus the modern day similarities between many European languages and Hindi. It also explains the similarities of languages in various sub-categories, such as with Germanic languages.

It's actually possible for English speakers to understand Frisian (a Northern German dialect) because the the two languages descend from the same older Germanic language. Just as Danish and Norwegian are very similar, and Danes and Norwegians can mutually understand one another to an extent.

Another example is with Hindi. Many words in the Hindi vocabulary are similar to words in modern European languages. These are just examples:

English ~You Hindi ~Tú Spanish ~Tu
~Why? ~Kyun? ~¿Que?
~No ~Nahin ~No
~Mother ~Mamz ~Madre
~One ~Eka ~Uno
~Two ~Xo ~Dos
~Three ~Wikk ~Tres
~Four ~Cok ~Cuatro
~Five ~Pamzca ~Cinco

The only reason it seems more foreign is because many experts and linguists believe the Indo-Aryan group was the first to branch off from the greater Indo European family.

The Indo Europeans were also similar genetically. Thus the reason Persians and Northern Indians are more fair skinned than Arabs and Southern Indians. The Persians and Northern Indians share the same distant ancestors as modern Europeans.

If the majority of your ancestors are from Northern India, then you're most likely Aryan.

Hope this helped you.
Peace.

Answer 5

The IBM/ National Geographic Genographic Project was launched In April 2005 and is a 5 year project. We eagerly await their results. My study of history suggests that there is a minority of pure originals. My ancestors can be traced to Eastern Europe for a few generations, but who knows before then. There has always been migration and expansion wars that have resulted in cross breeding.

Answer 6

Not necessarily.

Only DNA analysis will reveal your roots. Sometime ago, IBM did a world wide DNA sampling to trace the human race origin. I'm not sure whether they have published any results.

Skin color, facial and body profile can only suggest which race a person belongs to but DNA analysis will be the final answer.

Answer 7

Aryan-yes,but dravidian-can't say.

Answer 8

yes