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Thank-you for this. Yes I tend to agree with Aurobindo when he says:

A time must come when the Indian mind will shake off the darkness that
has
fallen upon it, cease to think or hold opinions at second and third
hand and
reassert its right to judge and enquire in a perfect freedom into the
meaning of its own Scriptures. When that day comes we shall, I think, [
. .
.] question many established philological myths—the legend, for
instance, of
an Aryan invasion of India from the north, the artificial and inimical
distinction of Aryan and Dravidian which an erroneous philology has
driven
like a wedge into the unity of the homogenous Indo-Afghan race.[16]

However even Michel Danino’s account is outdated in that it fails to
take
into account that Sumerian is Archaic Tamil and a study of Sumerian
literature discloses that what goes in the name of Hinduism is already
well
formed even before the Vedas. So let me respond to this account in
terms of
my understanding of the genesis of Indian Civilization, in fact the
genesis
of human civilization itself as follows.

1.

It is possible that the earliest human civilization grew in stages in
the
famous Kumar KaNdam which appears to have been a land probably off the
cost
of East Africa and protruding into SEAsia while remaining attached to
the
Southern tips of India. It must have been a tropical paradise with
hills and
dales and the various people organized and identified into hill tribes.
The
terms koottiram ( Ta.koodu: hill) and the Su. kur-kur meaning countries
(
Su. kur Ta.kunRu, kuuRu: hills) are evidences for this.

2.

Civilization was probably stimulated by the tropical ecological
conditions –
an abundance of flora and fauna, rivers and sea-coasts must have
gradually
helped them to emerge as agrarian society who also mastered the sea by
building boats. The Su.ma that means boat, also means tree in Tamil
indicating that at primitive times, wooden logs were used as boats.

3.

The people were probably blacks because of the tropical heat as they
remain
so to this day in India especially the South. We should also note that
even
at that early period, the people were ethnically different though
largely
black. The Sumerians appeared to have been blacks because they called
themselves rather proudly ‘sag gig-ga” the Black Heads. During their
time
the whole of the civilized world was Black while fair skinned
preSemitics
and the preEuropeans were mainly uncivilized Hill tribes living on the
fringe areas of Sumer described in Sumerian literature as the Sabarians
Gutians and so forth, people who knew not homes families with children
and
so forth. They gradually became civilized through acculturation into
Sumerian. While Akkadian that emerged retained its identity though with
heavy borrowing from Sumerian, it may be possible that some tribes like
the
Hittites lost their original language and took over Sumerian and
thereby
became Dravidian speakers.

4.

It was probably the people of Kumari KaNdam who were the people or at
least
the main group of people who settled in the valleys of Indus and
Tigris-Euphrates. The earliest Sumerian historical records have quite
vivid
accounts of the deluge , a legend that is also shared by the Tamils.
The
hero of the flood Jiu-sudra ( Ta. jiivasuttiran) is still remembered
among
the Tamils as TooNi Appar, the Father of Boat. The country the
Sumerians
established was also called Kumari and the capitol city Ur, names which
are
still retained among the Tamils.

5. After the sacking of Sumer by the Sabarians, the Sumerians were
slowly
scattered all over the world, both East and West. Those who moved into
India
mixed with the earlier residents there . It is these Sumerians who
probably
composed the Rig Veda and so forth. The word ’aryan’ is Archaic Tamil (
see.
Lugal-ari-a of Sulgi). The Rig Veda, it must be noted, is Archaic Tamil
and
therefore composed by people who were Dravidian speakers. The people
of the
Indus and Sumeria must have spread across the Gangetic valley and as
far as
the Himalayas. The words kaGkai is related to Sumerian seg-ga: down
pour and
the SEAsian ‘sungai’ meaning ‘river’, In Su. ‘imam’ means “cold’ and
hence
the word ‘himalaya’ a Tamil word meaning” a place where snow is spread
out”.
In fact a study of place names in the Gangetic Valley would show a
strong
Dravidian presence there.

6.

Among the Sangkam Tamils it was the Pandiyas who are very closely
associated
with Vedic Culture and whose poets talked of India as a whole and where
the
Kings declared that they are kings of the whole of India. All these may
be
indicators that prior to about 800 B.C. they were in the North and
perhaps
it was the Mahabarata War that was instrumental in their Southern
movements
and mixing with the other Tamil people already there. Even in ancient
times
the Pandiyas have been identified with Pandavas

The Culture of Academies is also very closely linked with the Pandiyas
whose
country is also called Kumari. This shows the ancient connection they
had
with the Sumerians who also had established various kinds of academies,
a
practice that also spread West into Greece.

More later.

Loga
here is a responce to the article. from a draividian scholar
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/akandabaratam/?yguid=78212036

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