Are the Dravidians (or South Indians) the only indigenous people of India?

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deltasquare

No one can give a definitive answer to this question.

There was no "India" before 1940s. The country as we know now never existed as a united entity till Nehru and others 'discovered India' and discovered commonness in culture and history. (Ref: Books 'Discovery of India' and 'Glimpses of world history', both by Nehru).

So, the question now needs to be reframed. There was civilization in both the northern and southern parts of India as early as 7000 B.C (roughly the time of Egyptian and Mesapotamian civilizations).

Historically, archeaelogically and anthropologically its now clear that the southern India had the dravidian race and this race remained comparatively pure genetically since southern India wasn't much affected by invasions from persia/arabia and moghuls. (Read Alexander, Mohamed Gazini, Babar-Akbar-Aurangazeb). So the indigenous people of southern India are dravidians for sure.

The northern India (including Pakistan) is a clutter of races. Being in the centre of Asia and at the heart of the famed Silk route and Spice route (by land) it had kings invading it all the time and travellers passing through it continuously. So we can never answer who is the "indigenous" people of northern India..

Maybe the clan that inhabited the north India in time of Harappa and Mohenjadaro civilizations can be called Indigenous. Or even earlier, the few people who lived in Mehrgarh, Pakistan in 7000 BC.. They are the true indigenous north Indians.. but I can assure you that the originality of that particular clan's race is now lost forever because of thousands of years of racial melting pot in that place.

Its a pity that such a historically, culturally important region (present day pakistan, afghanistan) is now devastated by invasions by foreigners who have just 300 years of history & identity.

vic

South Indians lived in the north before people came from central asia, europe and pushed them south.
But its not true that south indians don't beleive in Lord Rama, Krishna

MantraTantric SadhuBaba

Then push your time limit further and you will find the indigenous are the animals some homo sapians from Africa pushed them away. Its ridiculous now after so many thousand years.

BRAHMAYYA N

None knows for sure. Some people say that English had conveniently put forth this story just to divide North and South Indians.
Some people have proved with certain data that the theory is not correct.

About one answer on Kannada language -that it is the oldest language of India, it is absolutey wrong. Ancient languages of India are Sanskrit and Tamil and no other language.

Kannada is a mixture of Tamil and Telugu and Telugu is derived from Sanskrit.

Giriraj b

it is a really interested question and lot of answers also above
what i did not understand is the Indians wasting there 97% in talking about past
will past come back
in past lot of things happen
if you go to history it never ends
what is use of talking about past
is it going to benefit us
so lets we forget past
now talk about today
only polticians will talk about past as they have to survive by doing this
why we should waste our time
are south indian or north indian are not indian first
then he chould not call him self a south indian or a north indian.
who is indian
this become important
my summry
there is no purpose ever solved by a person about talking past , so better we will ask about our present and future.

Leo H

true.

Mrugesh Thaker

No, it is not true. Actually your answer raises a question. What is considered as India ? Would you consider Nagaland, Mizoram as a part of ancient india ? would Nepal be counted ? Today we have politically correct borders but when it comes to culture, it's different. Personally I believe that all northeastern states of India is closer to china. They all are buddhists, speaks a language similar to chinese and looks like them too.

So the question is what is India ?? According to me the oldest tribe of India is Sindhis and Gujaratis because of the Harappa and Mohen-jo-dero remains. They are the oldest human civilization proofs of India. They are 6000 years old while Dravidians oldest is hardly 4000.

rajesh

Yes it is true for sure.

vep

it is true. read nilakanda shastry's indian history.

Aboy

yes it is true that is the main reason of hate between north indians and south indians.........

south indians don't believe in lord Ram, Krishna and ramyna mahabharta vedas etc..........

they have their own gods whom they worship and sometimes they don't call them selves as hindus.........

most of the south indians are kind of atheist.......

the ruling party DMK in tamil nadu openly says that they only worship tamilism and not any god and don't believe in hindu ideology at all.

SubhasChandra

I have no answer, but I know the Q that can give you the answer.

Q is:

What is CONRESS's role in Justice/Cost of Living/Edu/Eco/ Employ/Moral/Social..for INDIAN?
CONGRESS has ruled for almost 94% time in post independance INDIA.

What is it's contribution of CONGRESS to INDIAN in:
1)----Justice to all especially POOR.
2)----Education for capable (not based on cast or creed)
3)----Economic development of the country.
4)----Employment for all especially needy (not cast based)
5)----Socialism ( people think together, feel for other)
6)----Moral education for child / police / politicians
7)----Patriotism ie "SELF IS OVIOUS, BUT COUNTRY FIRST"
8)----COST OF LIVING ie Non and Consumable GOODS.
9)----Fairness of ELECTION, selection of TOP Jobs.
10)--Fainess in all offices like "JUSTICE FOR GOD or BAD, Opportunuty based on CAPABILITY not POLITICs".

SRINIVASAN R

We have to believe the history. We had not lived at that time to assess the reality.

NEO

Yes u r 100% true... Dravidians are real Indians. They own this country..People from Indus valley (Sindhu River civilization) came to India and pushed down to South..

U can see, all south Indian languages are similar to each other than north (Devnagari script) Indian languages.. and Sanskrit is also gift of north Indian culuture.. It influenced all south Indian languages too.. I guess Kannada is the oldest language of India..

haswanidise

This is nothing but rubbish.
Was Rama who came to rameshwaram was a foriegner.
There is a Hill Place in Coimbatore called " Vellingiri Hill" .This is called Kailash of South, It is believed that Rama & Sita visited this place & took shelter for a few days & the place is called Sithai Vanam.- meaning Sita's Forest.

The Tribune

According to Manorama Year Book, the first wave ofAryan immigration to India began in 1500B.C.!
The Indus Valley Civilization is said to be 5000 years old!
The Aryans came in search of fodder for their cattle and food for themselves.! Hence, they were not accompanied by their womenfolk! They married local girls, but considered them as
"low castes"!
Their contention was that "a woman would not get "moksha", until she did good deeds and was reborn as a male!
The Dravidians were not such male chauvinists! They worshipped goddesses!
Taking into account the physiographical features like tall mountain ranges,we can concede the hill tribes therein might have been the contempories of dravidians!

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