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Dravidian race: Encyclopedia - Dravidian people

The terms Dravidians and Dravidian Race are sometimes given to the peoples of southern and central India and northern Sri Lanka who speak Dravidian languages, the best known of which are Tamil (தமிழ்), Telugu (తెలుగు), Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ), Malayalam (മലയാളം) and Tulu (ತುಳು). Dravidian people - Ethnology. The term arose from nineteenth century Western scholars assumptions that Dravidian speakers were a distinct group within India, separate from the speak ...

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Dravidian race: Encyclopedia - Dravidian Dravidian may refer to: Dravidian languages, including the Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada languages spoken especially in southern India and northern Sri Lanka. Southern Dravidian languages, a major grouping of the languages Dravidian race, a member of any of the peoples that speak one of the Dravidian languages , especially a member of one of the pre-Indo-European peoples of India A political movement encompassing a number of different parties that appeal to speakers of the Tamil language

Dravidian race: Encyclopedia II - Dravidian people - Ethnology

The term arose from nineteenth century Western scholars assumptions that Dravidian speakers were a distinct group within India, separate from the speakers of the Indo-Aryan languages in the north of the country. It was supposed that the generally darker-skinned Dravidians constituted a distinct race. This notion corresponded to racial hierarchies of the time according to which darker skinned peoples were more primitive than light-skinned whites. Accordingly, Dravidians were envisaged as primitive early inhabitants of India who had been parti ...

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Aryan race - Quotations

Dravidian race: Encyclopedia - Yoni

The word yoni is the Sanskrit word for the 'female reproductive organ'. Translated directly into English, it could mean vulva or vagina. It also has a wider meaning in religious and spiritual contexts, where its meaning is 'creativity'. The yoni is also considered to be symbolic of Shakti or other goddesses of a similar nature. Yoni is perhaps the most misused and misunderstood word from the ancient Indo-Aryanic language, Sanskrit. The word yoni was originally used more often in a spiritual sense rather than as a term to ...

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Dravidian race: Encyclopedia - Mahar

Mahars constitute an important social group of Maharashtra state, India, and also of the adjoining Indian state of Goa. Traditionally considered lower in the Hindu caste hierarchical system, a number of Mahars, during the 20th century, converted to Buddhism, including one of the most prominent Mahars Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. The Imperial Gazetteer of India, writing about Nagpur district, India, describes the social status of Mahars, as prevailing in early 1900s, in these words [1]: “Mahars form a sixth of the whole populati ...

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Dravidian race: Encyclopedia - Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu (தமிழ் நாடு, "Land of the Tamils") is a state at the southern tip of India. The bordering states/territories are Pondicherry, Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. The island nation of Sri Lanka, which has a significant Tamil minority, lies off the southeast coast. Tamil Nadu is the second most industrialized state in India. Unlike most other parts of the country, Tamil Nadu gets its rainfall largely from the "North-East monsoon" in the months of October-December. There is a long standing dispute wi ...

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Tamil Nadu - History

Dravidian race: Encyclopedia - Indo-Aryan migration

Indo-Aryan migration refers to the migration and expansion of the Indo-Aryans during the 2nd millennium BC or earlier. Archaeological and philological data indicates that there was a shift of settlements from the northwestern part of South Asia to the Gangetic valley and to the south during the second millennium BCE, but does not clearly support a migration of Indo-Aryan people into South Asia. Based on linguistic data, many scholars have argued that Indo-Aryan speakers invaded in South Asia in the second millennium BCE. This correspo ...

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Indo-Aryan migration - Archaeology

Dravidian race: Encyclopedia - Aryan invasion theory

Aryan invasion theory, often abbreviated to AIT, is a term used to refer to the theory developed by 19th Century European linguists to explain the similarity between Sanskrit and European languages, supposing the invasion or migration of peoples who originated outside of India. The term is now most used by Indian opponents of the theory, or to label obsolete forms of the theory. The term "Aryan" derives from the word arya, used in the Vedas in a sense of "nobility", and as an ethnic term in Iran. The phrase "Aryan ...

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Dravidian race: Encyclopedia - Dalit outcaste

In South Asia's caste system, a Dalit — formerly called untouchable or achuta — is a person outside the four castes, and considered below them. Included are leather-workers, scavengers, street handicrafters, poor farmers and laborers. Other terms have been used to refer to Dalits in recent times. Harijan was the polite form for untouchable coined by Mahatma Gandhi which means "Children of God" (Hari is another name for God Vishnu). ( This term had already been used by the medieval philosopher Ram ...

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Dravidian race: Encyclopedia - Afrocentrism

Afrocentrism is a worldview or ideology that focuses on the black people and their contributions. More particularly, it often seeks to emphasize the contributions of black African peoples and the African diaspora over other peoples. Like any ideology or worldview, its proponents differ on many specific points but universally hold certain broad concepts to be true. Mainstream Afrocentric theory is critical of Eurocentrism. Afrocentrism holds that Eurocentrism has led to the neglect or denial of the contributions of Africa ...

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Dravidian race: Encyclopedia - Balochi language

Balochi, a north-western Iranian language, is the principal language of Balochistan. There are several other minor languages which are spoken at the ethnic borders of Pakistani and Iranian Balochistan (Sistan and Baluchistan). The speakers of minority languages (Brahui, Saraiki, Sindhi, and Persian (Dehwari dialect)) are bilingual. Persian and English were used as official languages in western Balochistan (Iran-Afghanistan), the Khanate of Balochistan, and British Balochistan. In 1947, the independent Khanate of Balochistan announced Balochi as an official and national la ...

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Dravidian race: Encyclopedia - Sinhalese people

Thailand: 61,000 Malaysia: 23,000 Singapore: 12,000 The Sinhalese are the main ethnic group of Sri Lanka. They speak Sinhala, an Indo-Aryan language and number approximately 15 million people with the vast majority found in Sri Lanka, while nearly 100,000 live in other countries, mainly in Southeast Asia including Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore.[2][3] Sinhalese people - History. Legendary accounts relating to the Indian epi ...

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Dravidian race: Encyclopedia - List of common phrases in various languages

This is a list of common phrases in various languages, for a general overview of ten to fifteen basic phrases in all of the major world languages, and certain interesting minor ones. Tourists to a foreign country often get along with a surprisingly short list of phrases, combined with pointing, miming, and writing down numbers on paper. This list is intended to serve as a comprehensive basic introduction to those languages. Note: The language family of each language is listed in parentheses. Including:

List of common phrases in various languages - Usage Notes

List of common phrases in various languages - Usage Note

Dravidian race: Encyclopedia - Pakistan

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan (Urdu: اسلامی جمہوریۂ پاکستان, islāmī jamhūriya i pākistān), or Pakistan (Urdu: پاکستان, pākistān) is a country located in South Asia that overlaps onto the Greater Middle East and Central Asia. The country borders Iran (Persia), Afghanistan, China, India and the Arabian Sea. The name of the country "Pakistan" in Urdu and Persian means Land of the Pure. With around 163 million inhabitants, it is the sixth most populous country with the secon ...

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Pakistan - History

Pakistan - Politics

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Dravidian race: Encyclopedia - Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh (ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్ in Telugu) (Āndhra Prādesh), is a state in south-eastern India and is part of the linguistic-cultural region of South India. It lies between 12°41' and 22°N latitude and 77° and 84°40'E longitude, and is bounded by Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Orissa in the north, the Bay of Bengal in the east, Tamil Nadu to the south and Karnataka to the west. Andhra Pradesh is the fifth largest state in India and it forms the major link between the north and the south of India. It is the b ...

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Andhra Pradesh - History

Andhra Pradesh - Geography

Andhra Pradesh - Politics

Andhra Pradesh - The Beginning of Multi-Party Politics

Andhra Pradesh - Economy

Andhra Pradesh - Culture

Dravidian race: Encyclopedia - Brahmanism

Brahmanism, popularly known as Hinduism, developed its ritual, worship and philosophy from Aryan scriptures; the Vedas. Over the years this civilization, culture and tradition were trickled down to the lower caste of the social hierarchy of the Hindu society through puranas as well as Ithihasas like Ramayana and Mahabharata. Brahmanism considers Brahmin caste as hereditary creators, preservers and propagators of religion. A Brahmin (less often Brahman) is a person born in the priestly Brahmin caste. The word is related to but not to be confused with religious conception of the t ...

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Brahmanism - Trimurti

Brahmanism - Challenge To Brahmin Supremacy and Caste System

Brahmanism - Famous Brahmins

Dravidian race: Encyclopedia - India

The Republic of India, commonly known as India, is a country in South Asia which comprises the majority of the Indian subcontinent. India has a coastline which stretches over seven thousand kilometres, and shares a border with Pakistan to the west, the People's Republic of China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast, and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. On the Indian Ocean, it is adjacent to three island nations -- the Maldives (to the southwest), Sri Lanka (to the south), and Indonesia (to the southeast). India also claims a ...

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Dravidian race: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary on Telugu

Telugu A language spoken in Southern India, classed by scholars in the Dravidian group -- the principal tongue of this group being Tamil. The Dravidians were a pre-Aryan race.

Dravidian race: Encyclopedia II - Aryan race - Quotations

"I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language… To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar." Max Müller "I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by arisch. I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-Iranian; as far as I am aware none of my ...

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