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ORIGINAL
INHABITANTS
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The
Dravidians were original inhabitants of the Indian Peninsula
and
they developed a civilization which was taken to Mesopotamia
and
formed the basis of Semitic civilization.
H.RISLEY
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INHABITED
WHOLE OF INDIA
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The
modern dialects of North India now called Sanskrit or Gaudian have a fundamental
grammatical frame work and a scheme of syntax, the same as that of the
Dravidian dialects can be translated into any one set of dialects by the
substitution of word for word without causing any breach of idiom. These
facts can only prove that people were speaking dialects allied to Tamil.
Tamil once inhabited the whole of India, and not that these people must
necessarily have come into India from outside the country. No single fact
has yet been adduced that compels us to believe that the ancient people
of India were not autochthones.
P.
T.S.IYENGAR.
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TAMILS
COLONIZED GREAT BRITAIN
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would be interesting to note that the term "Dravid" which frequently applied
to wise persons among the early Britons in the Pre-Roman days may have
also some connection with the word"Dravid",thus showing how the early Dravidians
from India colonized and civilised Great Britain.
QUARTERLY
JOURNAL OF MYTHIC SOCIETY
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INDIGENOUS
AND ABORIGINAL
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This
settlement in India extend to such prehistoric times that we
cannot
even feel sure that we regard them immigrants or, at least, as
their
conquerors or colonists on a large scale but rather as
iboriginal.
DR.
FERGUSSON
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INDIGENOUS
AND ABORIGINAL
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hypothesis, that would represent what we know of their history most correctly
would place their original seat in the extreme south, somewhere probably
not far from Madura or Tanjore and ...spreading fanlike towards the north.
They have no traditions which point to any seat of race out of India, or
their having migrated from any country whose inhabitants they can claim
any kindred so far as they know they are indigenous and aboriginal.
DR.
GERGUSSON
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TAMIL
MIGRATION
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The Brahui Language is sprung
from the same source as the Dravidian language group; it has already absorbed
the alien vocabulary of Persian, Baluchi, Sindi and other neighbouring
languages;but in spite of their inroads its grammatical system has preserved
a sturdy existence which we can no longer argue with the child-like faith
of our forefathers from philology to ethnology and assume without further
add that this race of Baluchistan whose speech is akin to the languages
of the Dravidian peoples of Southern India is itself Dravidian, that it
is in fact the rear guard or the vanguard according to the particular theory
that we may effect of a Dravidian migration from North to South or South
to North.
MR
DENEYSBRAY.
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NOT
IMPORTED
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assume that the cultural of this region was imported from other lands or
that its character was profoundly modified by outside influences.
i-tOHA- SIR
JOHN MARSHALL
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MADRAS-BIRTHPLACE
OF CIVILIZATION
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| "Madras,
as a symbol of a wider zone, though not as a city, may therefore well be
considered as the possible birth place of a long enduring and wide- spread
civilization in the earliest history of mankind".
U.R.EHRENFENFELS
PH.D
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MOST
ANCIENT CIVILIZATION
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Since
South India is in the centre of the diffusion area of palaeolithic stone
industries and may have been their birth place,the same might be also true
regarding the first beginning of the higher
civilizations
and ............. Whether it was in South India, in Ceylon,or possibly
in one of the farther South East Asian countries that the first world culture
started we do not know. In this region, at any rate, we are on the soil
which is quite likely to be the most ancient place of human civilization.
U.R.
EHRENFELS PH.D
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SPECIAL
FEATURE OF TAMILS PRE-HISTORY
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The fact is in southern
India iron appears immediately after stone
age, whereas in the North
a copper age comes between the two periods. The absence of bronze age between
those of stone and iron is a special feature of South Indian pre-history
and it should add that the bronze objects found in the tombs of Tinnevely
are not weapons.
PA
UL MASSON OURSEL
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