Saturday, July 19, 2008

Dravidian Indians, Aryans and Malaysian Indians

It is believed that the Dravidian civilization began in the Indus Valley. Early Indus civilization showed high level of architectural talent, farming and religious believes.
They did not have many weapons but had many musical instruments and variety of dances. This was evidence to the historians that they were peace loving people.

There is no clear evidence on why and when this people migrated to the South India. Now the Dravidians are four major languages, they are Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.

The Dravidians culture was bastardized by the invaded Aryans, and the former being god fearing people, Aryans penetration through religion was much easier.

These Aryans, were not good agriculturist. With the knowledge of religion and better origination skills they were able to convince the Dravidians kings and remained in the temples. They did not teach the religion to the Dravidians. Dravidians followed whatever the Brahmin priest said. Any questions rose on their practices, considered meant challenging the god. As they are not agriculturist they will receive uncooked food from the Dravidians for their religious services but considered sin to receive any cooked food.

Aryan (Brahmin) dances were allowed to be practiced and performed in temples but the Dravidian dances and musical instruments were allowed out side the temple building.

I do not know why then the Dravidian Kings allowed this privilege to the immigrated race and subordinated their own.

With the Kings support, the Aryan felt superior to the Dravidians and the later began to loss confidence, leadership and organizational skills, talent and discipline to accumulate knowledge.

This contributed to the high level of illiteracy among the Dravidians. The Dravidian culture was looked down not only by the Aryans but later by the Dravidians them selves, which probably can never be seen anywhere in the world.

However, some privileged Dravidians who practiced the Brahmins cultures were considered favoured group of the Aryans and the become the higher class of the Dravidians.

The above was history. Now the education is for all. The Dravidians had bounced back. In fact they have done it in the IT field in India as the giant IT parks are in the Dravidian dominated south. The four Dravidian dominated states show higher level of growth then the northern states. They contribution to accomplish India to become future superpower is higher then any other part of the country. Their economic growth is second fastest in the world.


In Malaysia the Dravidians Indians form 90% of the Malaysian Indians. We too had to bounce back. We have run to catch up the lost distance and time. If we run at the same speed of economic growth, then we will be running at the same place. We have to run faster. We have to acquire world class education and become world class entrepreneurs and brand creators. Our ancestor land is moving fast with the new mind set.

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