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[Although the pre-historic relations between India and Ceylon are undeniable, the rest of his arguments are based on mere assumptions. It is not true to say that all the non-Aryan inhabitants of India were necessarily Dravidian. There were others as well, chief among whom were the Munda speaking people.]
It always amuses me when I see Sinhala people trying to destroy the idea that the Dravidians were on the island long before the Aryans came. It seems these poor souls still think that they are pure Aryans because of their language, and that anything Dravidian = Tamil, and therefore they feel the need to attack the long history of the Dravidian people on the island. The fact is both the Sinhala people and the SL Tamils resemble the Dravidian people more closely than any other racial group. Sinhala people look more alike to say South Indians than they do to say Punjabis. Genetics testing has proven this numerous times, indeed the Sinhala people cluster closer to South Indians than any other racial group. No one is saying that the Nagas are confirmed Dravidians (and certainly not confirmed Tamils - they had their own distinct non-Aryan language Elu after all), and no one is denying the existence of the Munda people. The fact is for both South India and Lanka, the Munda speaking aboriginals (e.g. the Veddas and the tribes of Tamil Nadu ? the yakkshas) were the first inhabitants of those respective places. The Dravidians were preceded in the subcontinent by these Australoid-type people, and were followed by Indo-European-speaking migrants sometime later. Dravidians themselves are a sub-group of the caucasian race, and they have a significant Australoid trait. The fact is Sri Lanka is a continental island separated from southern India by the 20-meter-deep Palk Strait. The fact is the island has been repeatedly connected with India between successive interglacials, most recently until about 7,000 years ago by a land bridge up to about 140 kilometers wide. There are megalithic urn burials in South India, dating from around 1000 BC that are clearly Dravidian in origin. These same burials are also found in Lanka. Dravidian presence in India goes back to around 6000 BC. What would have prevented these people from venturing into Lanka all those years ago? Indo-Aryan speakers came to India around 2000 BC. Why do Sri Lankans and South Indians have a common gene pool that historians now call the SISL gene-pool? It is highly likely in my eyes that the ancient Damelas who migrated to Lanka (or the Hela people who migrated to Tamil Nadu) in the pre-Vijayan times would have easily assimilated into the local cultures that were starting to form. |
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