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Re: DRAVIDIAN RELIGION
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To: alt-hindu@uunet.uu.net
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Subject: Re: DRAVIDIAN RELIGION
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From: vidya@cco.caltech.edu (Vidyasankar Sundaresan)
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Date: 16 Aug 1994 02:00:25 GMT
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Distribution: world
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Newsgroups: alt.hindu
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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References: <32ealv$41i@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
In article <32ealv$41i@ucunix.san.uc.edu> Cybermonk@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu
writes:
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> > >The theory that there were seperate "Aryan" and "Dravidian" races has
long
> > >been considered obsolete by most scholars.
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> Most scholars that I have met do not consider this theory and obsolete
and
> I think David Frawley's work is not very highly respected and is
> considered part of the new Hindu revisionist thinking. While I am
> personally skeptical of the whole Aryan invasion theory, I would like to
> see more references by mainstream scholars saying that they no longer
> believe in it. Do you have such references? If so, please post them
here.
>
Inspite of Dr. Frawley's work not being respected, and Hindu revisionist
thinking, the division into Aryan and Dravidian as "races" has long been
forgotten, I think. In any case, the concept originated as a linguistic,
not a racial distinction. Now the wheel has come full circle, with the
postulation of a Nostratic super-family, which includes Indo-European and
Dravidian languages as sub-families. I can check the references and post
them here later.
vidya
