MOST
INTELLECTUAL CIVILIZED CULTURED PEOPLE
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From
prehistoric times these Dravidians have been the most intellectual civilized
and cultured people of India: famed for arts and architecture piety and
religious with elaborate rites and symbolism. This they have left for us
in monolithic cave temples, carved out of rocky mountains and in the most
intractable stone beautiful in design, elaborate and rich decoration with
grandeur and yet delicacy. The artist is are quite unsurpassed by any race
in the world.
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GREAT
ARTISTS,SINGERS,
DESIGNERS
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The
Tamils were great artists and they could sing, design and construct.
DR. RABINDRANATHTAGORE
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DEEP
THINKERS,
POWERFUL
RULERS
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The
Tamils are deep thinkers, powerful rulers and administrators who never
permitted any Aryan interference in central or southern India, in its government,
religions or occupations, though their upper classes have for some centuries
affected a good deal of Sanskrit.
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TAMILIAN
ELEMENT IN ANCIENT WORLD CULTURES
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We,
therefore, conclude that the so-called Mediterranean race had its origin
in peninsular India, which was a part of the original Dravidian home which,
was in the submerged continent and connected South India with Africa, when
the Indo Gangetic basin had not probably been formed. So the Dravidian
element is not to be found in Indian culture alone but is largely traceable
in Cretan, Aegean, Sumerian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Polynesian and other
cultures of ancient world.
V.R.RAMACHANDRADIKSHJTAR.
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THE
CONTRIBUTION OF
THE
TAMILS
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The
Tamils have contributed a great deal to the cultural richesse of the world;
Pallava and Chola temple architecture, Chola bronze sculpture, the dance-form
known as Bharatanatyam, the so-called Carnatic system of music.
DR.KAMIL ZVELEBIL
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HIGHLY
DEVELOPED
CULTURE
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The
invading Aryans, moreover found in India, an already highly developed culture,
the main representative of which were the Dravidians who are
still
predominantly in Southern India.
DR.
BETTY HEIMANN
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TAMILS
RICH AND ANCIENT
CIVILIZATION
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There,
beneath the himalayas, arose the primacy phase of evolved city-life, named
from the location of its first known and largest sites the Indus Valley
Civilization discoveries by John Marshal! and his colleagues after 1921
gave to India something approaching an additional two thousand years of
rich pre-history and to the world the largest of its three most ancient
civilization.
SIRMORTIMEER
WHEELER.
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CRADLE
OF THE
HUMAN
RACE
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"South
India was probably the cradle of the human race. Investigations in relation
to race show it to be possible that Southern India was once the passage
ground by which the ancient progenitors of Northern and Mediterranean races
proceeded to the part of the globe which they inhabit".
SIR
JOHN EVANS
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HIGHLY
DEVELOPED
CULTURE
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The
invading Aryans, moreover found in India, an already highly developed culture,
the main representative of which were the Dravidians who are still predominantly
in Southern India.
DR.
BETTY HEIMANN
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ADVANCED
CIVILIZATION 5000 YEARS AGO
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Never for a moment was
it imagined that, five thousand years ago before even the Aryan were heard
of, the Punjab and Sind, if not other parts of India, as well, were
enjoying an advanced and singularly uniform civilization of their own,
closely akin, but in some respects even superior, to that of contemporary
Mesopotamia and Egypt.
SIR JOHN MARSHALL
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