Strange Theories on South Indian Origins

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Strange Theories on South Indian Origins

 

 

 

I found the following at some India info site:

 

"The south Indians are believed to have descended from the longheaded

Mediterranean people who came to India about 4500 years ago. Racially

they are not related to the north Indians who are the descendants of

the Aryans who settled in India 1000 years later.

 

The states of south India are among the most developed ones in the

country. In literacy rates, the state of Kerala has been setting an

exemplary trend with near 100% literacy rate. Likewise, in the

crusade against rising population, the south Indian states have taken

a lead over others with very low rate of population growth owing to

their family planning measures.

 

At least three states of South India are being hailed as the leaders

in the Information Technology revolution. Bangalore, capital of the

state of Karnataka is now called the Silicon Valley of India because

of its international standard software companies. Tamil Nadu is also

fast catching up with its neighbour state and giving it the run for

its money. Andhra Pradesh, under the leadership of a visionary Chief

Minister is blazing new trends with its promising mission of e-

governance.

 

Kerala, God's Own Country is a green paradise. The land of elephants,

coconuts and Kathakali is known for its serene scenic beauty. The

hospitality of its people is legendary."

http://mapsindia.com/overview/southzone.htm

 

Obviously much of it is quite ignorant, such as the "not related"

bunk (though I suppose it's common among Northies), but

this "Mediterranean" correlation with South India keeps popping up:

 

"

DRAVIDIANS

There is general agreement among ethnologists that the Dravidian

population is a branch of the Mediterranean race, or at least a

closely allied one. while the Mediterranean race is White, the

Dravidians are much darker, ranging from the dark Greek and Italian

complexion to black. 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. These deviations can be

explained with a probable interbreeding between the Dravidians and

Mundas, as it is still taking place in the Chotanagpur region between

the Dravidian Oraons and the neighboring Mundas.

 

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. On grounds of cultural

affinities such as inheritance through women, snake cults,

organization of society, and structure of temples, some historians

connect the Dravidians with the Elamites and Mesopotamians. The

evidence of Indian skulls from the Indus Valley indicates that the

Mediter-ranean stock became established in north India before the

Harappab Civilisation came into existence around 2000 B.C.

 

Granted that the Dravidians were,originally Mediterraneans and that

they passed through Mesopotamia, Iran, and Baluchistan, exactly from

which Mediter-ranean region did they come?

 

Of particular significance is archeologist B. B. Lal's contention

that the Dravidians probably came from Nubia, Upper Egypt. This

theory would give them among other things their Mediterranean

features and dark complexion. Lal writes: "At Timos the Indian team

dug up several megalithic sites of ancient Nubians which bear an

uncanny resemblance to the cemeteries of early Dravidians which are

found all over Western India from Kathiawar to Cape Comorin. The

intriguing similarity extends from the subterranean structure found

near them. Even the earthenware ring-stands used by the Dravidians

and Nubians to hold pots were identical." According to Lal, the

Nubian megaliths date from around 1000 B.C.

 

The linguistic studies of scholars like S. K. Chatterji have

discovered many cognate words in ancient Egyptian and Nubian

languages and Tamil. Fur-ther, the new findings on the Indus

heiroglyphics by M. V. N. Krishna Rao, Fateh Singn, H. S. Parpola, K.

A. Parpola, S. J. Koskenniemi, and Yu. Knorozov claim to have

deciphered the script in terms of Proto-Dravidian and thus confirm

the findings of the venerable Indian historian Father Heras that the

Harappan people spoke a Dravidian language in the third millennium

B.C.

 

My own comparative analysis of the Dravidian myth of Kovalan and

Kannaki celebrated in the ancient Tamil Shilappadikaram with the

ancient Egyptian myth of Osiris and Isis confirms the Egyptian origin

of the ancient Dravidians. These two myths are very similar in

content and help explain each other and argue for a common ethnic

origin. The long ships used by the Egyptians in the third millennium

B.C. could have easily carried the Dravidians to the banks of the

Indus River and/or all the way to South India. The sea-route-however,

does not exclude the possibility of the early Dravidians taking a

land route from the Phoenician shores through Iran and Baluchistan to

India. No wonder, similar hieroglyphic writings are found both in

Egypt and India."

http://www.gotop10.com/KJ/khdravidians.html

 

 

 

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