What is the difference between Dravidian and Aryan?

People living in North India have been referred to as Aryans, and those belonging to south India have been labeled as Dravidians for the last many centuries. Indians were made to believe that north Indians are descendants of Aryans while south Indians are the descendants of Dravidians.

Is Aryan and Dravidian a myth?

A pathbreaking study by Harvard and indigenous researchers on ancestral Indian populations says there is a genetic relationship between all Indians and more importantly, the hitherto believed “fact” that Aryans and Dravidians signify the ancestry of north and south Indians might after all, be a myth.

Did Aryan created Hinduism?

– Indo-Aryan and Dravidian have merged millennia ago to form the roots of Hinduism and sustain the continuity of Indian historical tradition till the present day.

What is the Aryan/Dravidian myth?

Adolf Hitler and the Aryan/Dravidian Myth. Adolf Hitler twisted the theories of archaeologist Gustaf Kossinna (1858–1931), to put forward the Aryans as a “master race” of Indo-Europeans, who were supposed to be Nordic in appearance and directly ancestral to the Germans.

Who were the Aryans and why do they matter?

Updated November 07, 2019. One of the most interesting puzzles in archaeology—and one that hasn’t been completely solved yet—concerns the story of the supposed Aryan invasion of the Indian subcontinent. The tale goes like this: The Aryans were one of the tribes of Indo-European-speaking, horse-riding nomads living in the arid steppes of Eurasia.

Who is the father of Dravidian language?

Aryan and Dravidian It was Bishop Caldwell (1875) who suggested that the South Indian languages of Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, and Telugu formed the separate Dravidian family of languages. He further suggested that the speakers of the proto-Dravidian language entered India from the northwest.

Was India really invaded by Aryans from Central Asia?

Then we were told that India was invaded around 1500 BC by Aryans from Central Asia or, perhaps, even South Europe. This dogma was at the basis of the construction of an elaborate scenario related to strife between the speakers of the Aryan and Dravidian languages.