sastry wrote: > > "The Dravidians were a race of darkskinned primitive people who lived in > India. They were conquered and driven to the South of India by the fair > skinned and advanced Aryans who came from Europe, speaking Sanskrit and > having an advanced culture. They set up great cities with streets and > drainage systems and ruins of those cities can now be found at Mohenjo Daro > and Harappa" the remains of the Indus valley civilization" >
Er, but the "aryans set up the indus valley civilization" is pure rubbish - at least, rubbish of the sort I didnt see in my textbooks (CBSE as of high school a dozen or so years ago, so that several thousand school students in india who actually read the history stuff instead of memorizing answers for an exam before forgetting it would see the same thing I saw) The aryans typically settled closer to the gangetic valley plus the sutlej / jhelum / beas etc region, so that MP, UP, Bihar etc, all the cowbelt states, plus punjab and haryana, would have been aryan. Most origins that I've seen posited for them place them as horseborne nomads - with war chariots - from central asia (transoxiana) who then migrated over before settling mostly around the gangetic delta and elsewhere. The indus valley people were rather unrelated to this bunch, and probably got invaded and overrun by the aryans as well .. sharing just one god that the aryans recognized (the famous sitting figure at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pashupati.gif)
