From urban to rural - the descent of the aryan apes

oct 11th, 2009

tamil exceptionalism to the fore once again.

bloody idiots!

they will explain that tamil brahmins are getting nobel prizes because they are 'aryan' and thus superior to the garden variety tamils.

tamil brahmins are superior, but that's only because the garden variety tamils have allowed their brains to atrophy behind this 'dravidian' rot. also, it has something to do with the superior nutritional value of 'curd-rice' (in case you didn't know, this is what tamil brahmins are derogatorily referred to by the DMK types). 

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From: Radha Rajan

Dear all, being a bear with no brain pl tell me if this makes sense to any of you. I am drawing these conclusions solely on the basis of the hindu newsreport -

 

1. Mahadevan, whose nose now wears a Witzel ring, is telling me today, that after five decades of Romilla Thapar's Aryan race theory from which deep slumber Mahadevan has woken up today, that in his personal lexicon, 'Aryan' is no longer race but 'Linguistics'.

 

2. I will oblige him with a willing suspension of disbelief and assume that by 'Aryan' he means sanskrit and languages parented by sanskrit. This much Pooh's brain can grasp.

 

3. Now - Mahadevan tells me that the Indus civilization pre-dated the 'Aryan culture' and he has come to this remarkable conclusion after five decades of intense work.

 

4. Now it is here that Pooh's brain is stalling and bucking  like the legendary Harappan horse. By 'aryan culture' I assume Mahadevan means the culture deriving from Sanskrit, that is the vedic culture.

 

5. Now Mahadevan says Indus civilization is urban while Aryan, vedic culture was rural and pastoral.

 

6. From urban to rural as time advanced, isnt it turning the theory of the march of man from pastoral to urban to industry to infotech on its head?

 

7. Unless the vedic rishis predicted where urbanization was going to lead mankind and decided that they will begin all over again and start with rural/pastoral again.

 

8. And so they culled the indus civilization man to the last man, woman and child so that there were no memories left of urban life and began to impose village life on us again.

 

If any of you can make Pooh understand the descent of the aryan ape theory, i am waiting. RR  

Curious that the White Elephant does not mention the White Horse's Posterior.

http://www.thehindu.com/2009/10/10/stories/2009101056252200.htm

Date:10/10/2009 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2009/10/10/stories/2009101056252200.htm

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Expert: Indus script linguistically Dravidian

S. Ganesan

TIRUCHI: The Indus script is Dravidian linguistically and culturally closer to the old Tamil polity than what has been recognised so far, eminent epigraphist Iravatham Mahadevan has said.

He shared some of his recent and still-not-fully-published findings relating to the interpretation of the Indus script, in an endowment lecture on 'Vestiges of Indus Civilisation in Old Tamil' at the 16th annual session of the Tamil Nadu History Congress, which opened here on Friday.

Mr. Mahadevan said that though the claim could be met with incredulity, the evidence he had gathered over four decades of intensive study of the sources — the Indus texts and old Tamil anthologies — had led him to the conclusion.

Mr. Mahadevan, who specialises in the Indus script and Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions, said there was also substantial archaeological evidence to support the view that Indus Civilisation was pre-Aryan. The Indus Civilisation was urban, while the Vedic culture was rural and pastoral.

The Indus seals, he said, do not depict the horse and the chariot with 'spooked wheels,' which were the defining pieces of the Aryan-speaking societies. "The Indus religion as revealed by the pictorial depiction on seals included worship of a buffalo-horned male god, mother-goddesses, the pipal tree and the serpent, and possibly the phallic symbol. Such modes of worship present in Hinduism are known to have been derived from the aboriginal population and are totally alien to the religion of the Rig Veda."

There was also substantial linguistic evidence "favouring Dravidian authorship of the Indus Civilisation," he said, citing Brahui, a Dravidian language still spoken in the Indus region, Dravidian loan words in the Rig Veda, the substratum influence of Dravidian on Indo-Aryan as shown by the presence of retroflex consonants in the Rig Veda and major modifications in the Prakrit dialects moving them closer to the Dravidian than the Indo-European family of languages. Computer analysis of Indus texts has also revealed that the language had suffixes only as in Dravidian and no prefixes as in Indo-Aryan or infixes as in Munda.

Clarifying that he was employing the terms, 'Aryan' and 'Dravidian,' only in linguistic sense, he said speakers of the Aryan languages indistinguishably merged with Dravidian and Munda-speaking people millennia ago, creating a composite Indian society.

Referring to the 'BEARER' ideograms in the Indus script, he said the frequent Harappan title, 'Bearer,' originally meant a priestly functionary ceremonially carrying, on a yoke, food offerings to the deity. The corresponding Dravidian expression, 'poray' (bearer) was translated in the Rig Veda as Bharata (bearer).