Brahman

BRAHMAN: THE DISCOVERY OF THE GOD OF ABRAHAM: M. M. NINAN
Possible Nubian Origin of Dravidians
DRAVIDIANS
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”There is general agreement among ethnologists that the Dravidian population is a
branch of the Mediterranean race, or at least a closely allied one. while the Mediterranean race
is White, the Dravidians are much darker, ranging from the dark Greek and Italian complexion to
black. There is also a wide range of difference in the shape of the skull, the color and texture of
the hair, the color of the eyes, and the shape of the nose. These deviations can be explained
with a probable interbreeding between the Dravidians and Mundas, as it is still taking place in the
Chotanagpur region between the Dravidian Oraons and the neighboring Mundas.
The Dravidians entered India before the Aryans, before 2000 B.C., after passing through
Mesopotamia, Iran, and Baluchistan where the Brahuis, a Dravidian race, still live. On grounds
of cultural affinities such as inheritance through women, snake cults, organization of society, and
structure of temples, some historians connect the Dravidians with the Elamites and
Mesopotamians. The evidence of Indian skulls from the Indus Valley indicates that the
Mediterranean stock became established in north India before the Harappab Civilization came
into existence around 2000 B.C.
Granted that the Dravidian were,originally Mediterraneans and that they passed through
Mesopotamia, Iran, and Baluchistan, exactly from which Mediterranean region did they come?
Of particular significance is archaeologist B. B. Lal's contention that the Dravidians probably
came from Nubia, Upper Egypt. This theory would give them among other things their
Mediterranean features and dark complexion. Lal writes: "At Timos the Indian team dug up
several megalithic sites of ancient Nubians which bear an uncanny resemblance to the
cemeteries of early Dravidians which are found all over Western India from Kathiawar to Cape
Comorin. The intriguing similarity extends from the subterranean structure found near them.
Even the earthenware ring-stands used by the Dravidians and Nubians to hold pots were
identical." According to Lal, the Nubian megaliths date from around 1000 B.C.
The linguistic studies of scholars like S. K. Chatterji have discovered many cognate words in
ancient Egyptian and Nubian languages and Tamil. Further, the new findings on the Indus
hieroglyphics by M. V. N. Krishna Rao, Fateh Singn, H. S. Parpola, K. A. Parpola, S. J.
Koskenniemi, and Yu. Knorozov claim to have deciphered the script in terms of Proto-Dravidian
and thus confirm the findings of the venerable Indian historian Father Heras that the Harappan
people spoke a Dravidian language in the third millennium B.C.
My own comparative analysis of the Dravidian myth of Kovalan and Kannaki celebrated in the
ancient Tamil Shilappadikaram with the ancient Egyptian myth of Osiris and Isis confirms the
Egyptian origin of the ancient Dravidians. These two myths are very similar in content and help
explain each other and argue for a common ethnic origin. The long ships used by the Egyptians
in the third millennium B.C. could have easily carried the Dravidians to the banks of the Indus
River and/or all the way to South India. The sea-route-however, does not exclude the possibility
of the early Dravidians taking a land route from the Phoenician shores through Iran and
Baluchistan to India. No wonder, similar hieroglyphic writings are found both in Egypt and India.”
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