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> A lot of Indian scholars are (re)discovering Indic history and we can expect much more of ancient India specific history to come out, which was unknown or has
by zozbot234 2y ago
> A lot of Indian scholars are (re)discovering Indic history and we can expect much more of ancient India specific history to come out, which was unknown or has been forgotten over the ages, given the ancient nature of the Indian civilization.
This, there are also very real links connecting famous civilizations of the Ancient Near East such as the Sumerians with the Dravidians of South India.
- lacy_tinpot 2y ago"Dravidian of South India" Isn't this the same thing as saying "Chai-Tea"? As "Dravidian" already means "Southern". Dravida = South in Sanskrit.
- daseiner1 2y agoYes, but it’s context for folks unfamiliar with Dravidians. And yes, said folks do have devices to quickly look up these things as well :)
- krisoft 2y agoI don’t know about the Dravidians. But in English (UK/US) “chai tea” does not just mean any tea. It is commonly used to refer to to black tea spiced with specific mix of spices. It is true that “chai” means tea in many languages, but the meaning in English is more specific. (At least in the usage i have encountered.)
- selimthegrim 2y agoBrahuis are not in S India
- FlyingSnake 2y agoIsn't Dravidian a language family (like Sino-Tibetan/Uralic) and not an ethnicity? AFAIK no South Indian empire like Rasthrakuta or Satavahan called themselves Dravidian.
- trueismywork 2y agoASI vs ANI
- FlyingSnake 2y agoIt’s not that straightforward because every Indian is a healthy mix of ANI+ASI+. In fact there’s no ASI ancient DNA sample available annd it’s a proposed phenotype. ANI/ASI also goes thousands of years before these empires arose so again back to the original claim that none of these empires called them Dravidian.
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- trueismywork 2y agoThe mixture was around 2000 BCE
- darby_nine 2y agoTbf we have no clue if the Harappa valley civilization was dravidian. I think current consensus edges towards a lost austronesian language rather than a dravidian one (albeit certainly coexisting with dravidian cultures), but we'll likely not have good answers without archaeological evidence of cultural comparison (like a rosetta stone)