"----------If there is a country on earth which can justly claim the honour of having been the cradle of the Human race or at least the scene of primitive civilization, the successive developments of which carried into all parts of the ancient world and even beyond, the blessings of knowledge which is the second life of man, that country is assuredly India---------------"
--- A quote from ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANICA
Recent genetic Studies have shown that there were no GENETIC DIFFERENCES between North and South Indians. Please refer to ----- "A prehistory of Indian Y chromosomes: Evaluating demic diffusion scenarios". Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences of United States of America ; 103(4) carried out on 26 Jan 2004. . Genetically speaking, ANCIENT NORTH INDIANS (ANI) came to this land some 40,000 years from Middle East and ANCIENT SOUTH INDIANS (ASI) entered South India through Australia some 60,000 years back------What ever genetic differences existed between ANI and ASI that was some 40,000 years back is . Here is an extract from a study report on " ARYAN-DRAVID -DIVIDE" MYTH-Study:-
"----------.A study of 132 individuals, 560,000 single-nucleotide polymorphisms in 25 different Indian groups were analyzed, providing strong evidence in support of the notion that modern Indians are a hybrid population descending from two pre-historic, genetically divergent populations[citation needed], one of which, referred to as the 'Ancestral North Indians', 40,000 years ago and the other, called the 'Ancestral South Indians', 60,000 years ago. The intermingling of ANI's and ASI's happened in the same period as the ANI's first appeared, 40,000 years ago -------"
This report has been published in TIMES OF INDIA on 25 September 2009. Therefore the study of prehistory of SUNDA LAND/LEMURIA/KUMARI KANDAMN is very important. I insist that there was nothing known as ARYAN and DRAVIDIANS in the ancient India. They were just symbols of address for various type of people. ARYANS were NOT a race but a lingual fraternity who owed their ancestry to NAGAS of SUNDA LAND/ KUMARI KANDAM/ LEMURIA. To be very frank, if I can use the term 'Anglicised-'NRI' to describe the ARYANS of ancient India, as in the modern context , I won't be drastically wrong. They were 'SANSKRITISED NAGAS' who returned home after a long sojourn outside Indian sub-continent. Same is true of Dravidans----they were 'Non -Sanskritised' people-----who did not speak Sanskrit.
As time passes many established logics get blown away---particularly about cosmic arena, sociology, geology and astronomy. More recently, it has come to notice that homo sapiens-----ancestors of present day man first appeared in the Middle east on the banks of River Jordon and NOT the Rift valley of Africa. It is from here the man went to SUNDA LAND or LIMURIA Islands or KANDAM. This land is the SUBMERGED PORTION of ocean between Peninsular coastline of India and modern Indonesia. It is here man first tasted his social growth as a 'civilised man' when he established the AGRICULTURAL CIVILISATION which later spread to rest of the world.
This development further debunks ARYAN MIGRATION or ARYAN INVASION THEORY. The agricultural civilisation in the coastal region of India or what some call SUNDA LAND/LIMURIA or KANDAM existed in the pre-ice age. This was a KNOWLEDGE RICH society of NAGAS----followers of Lord Shiva whose temples dot the Subcontinent from Afghanistan-Pakistan in the west and North to North east India in the East and Kerala-Karnatka in the South.
Around the end of last ice age, say some 11000- 8000 BC, the sea level began to rise with the melting of glaciers. By 8000 BC it had risen by 400 feet thus submerging bulk of SUNDA LAND. This forced the people from the region to move up north and west----along with their VEDIC KNOWLEDGE, which they had generated . When glaciers melted they also formed rivers-----There sprang up rivers like SARASWATI and SINDHU------The migrants from the SUNDALAND settlled along the banks of River SARASWATI--- for, the need of the water for their agricultural economies was essential------It led to setting up of RIVER CIVILISATIONS. It was the SARASWATI River along which major settlements were established as evidenced by 75% of the settlements being unearthed along its recreated channel, today. It is called INDUS valley Civilisation because two early excavations of MOHANJODARO and HARAPPA were found along River Indus and its tributary, River Satluj. Incidentally, Satluj and Yamuna were tributaries of River sarraswati. This river is worshipped as GODDESS of KNOWLEDGE in Hindu mythology. This is the reason because most of the ancient Indian Civilisation----the resource of Knowlege---was spread along this river. The migrations of Naga people continued towards North and West----as far as Syria-Iraq---Turkey---Germany----Hungry---Uzvekistan--Kazakhistan---and many other countries in the Balkans.
Geological study has shown that some major upheavals took place around 4000-4500 BC which dried up the source of River Saraswati and thus led to it eventual drying up by 2000 BC. During the upheaval , River Satluj and River Yamuna parted company with River Saraswati. They say by 2000 BC River Saraswati had totally disappeared. Thus between 4000 BC and 2000 BC a reverse migration took place which is now infamous as ARYANS FROM THE STEPPES OF CENTRAL ASIA. It is nothing but the return of the NAGA PEOPLE to their original home.
My interpretaions of epic of Ramayana is that it happened around 4000BC. It is refered to as Battle of TEN KINGS in the chronology. The story of RAMAYANA is actually ---part fiction and part truth based on the BATTLE OF TEN KINGS---It took place in the region called SAPTA SINDHU ( from Indian Punjab to Afghanistan). Kindly refer to a book by Rajesh Kochhar ---an ex Surveyor general of India and a renowned archaeologist. It fits well into the logic if we consider that VALMIKI the author had his ASRAM at RAM TIRATH, near modern Amritsar in Indian Punjab. He spun a web around this battle of TEN KINGS. DASSEHRA ---the festival is celebrated as victory over TEN HEADS of RAVNA. Certainly, ravna had ten ASSOCIATES and NOT TEN HEADS. Actually the total strength of kings against SUDAS were 13 and he defeated them all.. I shall recount the story of TEN KINGS in comments section when the debate develops.
Interpolating data from my sources from RETURN OF THE ARYANS by BS Gidwani; HIDDEN HORIZONS---1000 Years of Indian History by Dr David Frawley and Dr NS Raja Ram; Vedic History of India by Rajesh Kochhar; History of India by John Keay an Indologist and British Historians and various other sources on the internet---I give out the brief Chronology of events in ancient India.
CHRONOLOGY OF HISTORIC EVENTS IN SOUTH ASIAN LAND MASS
Dates Natural/Historical event Historical development
60,000BC First humans enter Coastal India Genetically referred to ASI or
From Australia or South East Asia Ancient South Indians.
40,000BC First Humans enter North India Genetically referred to ANI or
From Middle East Ancient North Indians.
40,000to Transformation from hunting/ Nomadic
3000 BC Man to fixed place living and emergence
of Families, clans, tribes and social groups.
30,000 to Interaction of North and South and
20000 BC Emergence of HYBRID Indian race,
Probably Nagas-Lord Shiva worshippers.
17000BC Late Ice Age Coastal cultures in Sunda land/
Lemuria/ Kumari Kandam ,the idea of
Pre-flood civilizations. (Pre-historic)
15000BC Warming begins; Coastal cultures under stress.
Unstable coast line.
13000BC Ice Age ending; flooding Proto-Vedic civilizations mainly in
begins of coastal areas. South India.
North India opens up for
the habitation.
11000BC Glaciations; freeze returns Indra -Vritra battles as per the
Vedas
10000BC Farming spreads in Indra -Vritra battles continue.
Sunda land and Indian interiors
10000 BC Renewed warming. Ice sheet Vritra--the coverer is slain by
to 8000BC Finally retreats. Indra -the solar deity.
Great North Indra Indian
Rivers (glacier fed)begin
to flow. Saraswati becomes
the greatest river.
and Saraswati-Drishadvati
Doab becomes the Rig Vedic home.
8000BC Beginning of the post Saraswati Manu Vivaswan period.
settlements.
7000BC Prime era of ocean-going The early Vedic dynasties;
to Saraswati Yayati, Turvash, Yadu and
4000BC Puru. The early rishis;
Angirasas,Bbhrigus,
Bhardwajas, Vamdev.
4000BC Weakening of Saraswati; Great kings of Ikshavakus
to end of early Vedic age. and the Puru -Bhartas.
3100BC Trasyadasu, Mandhara,
Bharat etc. Late Vedic
rulers, Sudas, Ram and
the Panchalas. The
Battle of Ten kings.
Rishis Vashishta and Vishavmitra.
3100BC Traditional date of Krishna Compilation of Vedas
sacking of Takshila by under the Purus. The
Janamajay. Mahabharata war, Ved Vyas
and his pupils compile the Vedas.
3100 Harappan civilization Late Vedic age and the
-2200BC to declining saraswati early Puranic age.
2200BC Worldwide droughts--. End of late Vedic Age.
-1900BC Europe to China. The focus shifts to
Saraswati dries up. East--Gangetic plains.
Janpadas are established and
kingdoms vanish.
1900 Post Harappan period. Some Vedic people still move
-1300BC out of India to the west.
Mesopotemia is conquered.
And Kassette Empire established.
1300BC -500 BC Period of Confusion Migrations TO and FRO South Asia Continues
500 BC onwards Budha, Mahavira and Mauryan Empire
100BC to 500AD Sakas, Kushans, Huns -- Bacterian and-Chinese Tribes come to
India and get merged.
500AD Hindu Rajput Kingdoms from Kashmir to Kanyakumari including present
to 1200 AD day Pakistan and Afghanistan except Sindh where Caliphatite rule of
Mohammed Bin Kassim established.
1200 AD Muslim & Mugal Period--Advent of Mohammed Gori and his wars with
to 1757 AD Prithviraj Chohan
1764 AD to British set up and ruled Indian subcontinent.---The only people who
1947 did not merge with the native people and stayed aloof----rest all
migrants in the past and ancient India had merged into great
Indian SOCIAL MASS to give it a unique Cosmopolitan
society culture.
As for as the mystery of DRAVIDIANS is concerned ---it is a brainchild of Christian missionaries , led by one ROBERT CALDWEL who had done so in 1856 AD. Robert Caldwell, a renowned linguist, in his book “Grammar of the Dravidians or the People of South India, published in 1856, recognized 73 Dravidian languages spoken from South India to Baluchistan(PAKISTAN),Western Iran, Afghanistan and Urals. It is now believed they were the people who established Pre –Aryan or the HARAPPAN civilization .I call it the civilization of NAGA people who were the worshippers of lord Shiva. The VEDIC knowledge belongs to them which had been usurped by the ARYANS because by that time, say around 1900 BC to 2800 BC NATURAL UPHEAVALS had devastated the NAGA CIVILISATION.
The Origin of the word DRAVIDA is attributed to the Sanskrit word “DRAMILA” or “DAMILA”, which later corrupted to Tamil or Tamil speaking people. It has been done by Linguists and they have gone to the extent of equating these words with TAMIL or TARMIZ. Actually the word DRAVID was first used by KUMARILLA BHATTA in the 7th CENTURY AD in his SANSKRIT book 'TANTRIKAVATIKA'. Kumarilla, a hardcore BUDDHIST and a SANSKRIT scholar recognised five regiona as DRAVID-------namely, GUJARAT, MAHARASHTRA, TAMIL NADU, ANDHRA and KARNATKA. He considered these regions lacking in the knowledge of Sanskrit thus poor in knowledge-----DRI + VID ( Devoid of Knowledge). You can further read my note on this.
The link is:-http://www.facebook.com/Rajeekushwaha#!/note.php?note_id=456542452914
A pictorial view of an artist's impression of SUNDA LAND/LEMURIA and KUMARI KANDAM ISLAND is given below:-
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