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- From: vivek@ecst.csuchico.edu (Vivek R. Prabhu)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
- Subject: Re: South Indian <> Dravidian. Definition Of An Aryan.
- Message-ID: <1errnuINNn44@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>
- Date: 24 Nov 92 00:07:26 GMT
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- In article <Uf4HqAW00iQCQMGmYs@andrew.cmu.edu> "Arun K. Gupta" <ag3l+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- >
- >If in 500 BC Gautama Buddha referred to his teachings as
- >"Arya Dharma" and it obviously didn't have any racial
- >connotation, then why does it always start a nasty political
- >fight 2500 years later ?
- >
- >-arun
-
- The reason is, that people have taken umbrage to any reference to the
- word "Aryan", not realizing that it only means one who is regarded as
- noble in thought, action, and deeds.
-
- Probably the reason why it has evoked a provocative debate, is due to
- the mistaken assumption that the Aryan presence in India is due to an
- invasion to conquer an existing Dravidian race, and imposing its own
- culture on the indigenous people of India, meaning the Dravidians.
-
- Well now this theory already stands discredited and it is proved that
- both the so-called Aryans, as well so-called Dravidians, were in fact
- just two of the many races co-existing in India from about 3500 B.C..
-
- Regards,
- Vivek.
-
- --
- vivek@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu (Vivek R. Prabhu),
- Research Assistant, Systems Engineering Lab., Dept. Of Computer Science,
- School Of Engineering, Computer Science And Technology,
- California State University, Chico, California.
-