Who came first to India Dravidians or Aryans?

One of these ideas is that India is a land of two races – the lighter- skinned Aryans and the darker-skinned Dravidians – and that the Dravidians were the original inhabitants of India whom the invading Aryans conquered and dominated.”

Who are the ancient most inhabitants of India?

The oldest inhabitants of India are considered to be Negritoes. Perhaps they were the first of the racial groups that came to India. They got settled in the hilly areas of Kerala and the Andaman Islands.

Who are the inhabitants of India?

The original inhabitants of the subcontinent, its aborigines, labeled by geneticists as Ancient Ancestral South Indians (AASI), lived throughout the subcontinent, but were soon to be partially assimilated into two demographic waves of farmers from the east and west: a larger group of Middle Eastern farmers expanding …

Are Dravidians and Aryans same?

A pathbreaking study by Harvard and indigenous researchers on ancestral Indian populations says there is a genetic relationship between all Indians and more importantly, the hitherto believed “fact” that Aryans and Dravidians signify the ancestry of north and south Indians might after all, be a myth.

Are Dravidians considered the original people of India?

Well India was mainly inhabited by Dravidian races and then Aryan invasions happened. So to a large extent Dravidians can be considered original people of India. There is a very large difference between languages, dravidian writing scripts, etc. With Aryan invasions, Dravidians were pushed down to the south all the way to Sri Lanka.

Who were the Indo-Aryans?

Another branch of the Indo-Iranians, the Aryans, spread south before the Iranians and migrated both to ancient Syria and Iraq, where they became the ruling class of the Mittani polity. Another group of Aryans spread southeast through the Hindu Kush range of Afghanistan into South Asia; these are the Indo-Aryans most prominently known in history.

How did the Aryan invasions affect the Dravidians?

With Aryan invasions, Dravidians were pushed down to the south all the way to Sri Lanka. Aryan race originated from Central Asia and are very closely related to Iran { The word Iran means home of the Aryans}.

Why is the Indus Valley civilization called a Dravidian civilization?

It is believed by some linguists that the Dravidian people were well spread all across the Indian sub continent and it is because of this that the Indus Valley civilization (Harappa and Mohenjo Daro) is also referred to as a Dravidian civilization, but whether the Indus Valley civilization is Dravidian or not is still controversial.