Re: Dravidians and Africans
I found this very interesting article. Its quite long, so I thought you guys give it a read and share your opinions.
Enjoy
http://arutkural.tripod.com/tolcampus/drav-african.htm
The issue of the linkage between Africans and Dravidians is not something that can be dismissed as something that has no substance in it at all. Anyone who sees the Ethiopians and Tamils could see a remarkable physical resemblance and during my stay in London I mistook some Ethiopians in fact for Tamils. Perhaps some Dravidian tribes at least, are people with intimate relationship with some Africans, a notion that deserves to be investigated further. Such studies were promoted at one time by the political leaders in Senegal and some books published by the anthropologist K.P. Aravanan, now the Vice Chancellor of a university in Tamil Nadu owe to this. One of them is the collection of articles, some quite rare indeed and edited by K.P. Aravanan, and published under the title “Dravidians and Africans”. The copy I have was published in 1997 and Tamil Koottam holds the copyright.
The book also contains many photographs that reveal the presence Muruka worship among the East Africans where the Vel, the Spear and the Mayil, the peacock are unmistakably similar to those in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka.
I shall select only some relevant parts from some of these essays so that they enjoy a wider publicity and the issue of the African connections, among others, of the Dravidians folks becomes a lively again. This may also serve as an antidote to the very popular and highly publicized Aryan Racialism of many scholars both European and Indian.
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This article is from 1974. We know a lot more about the journey of man from DNA studies today than we did in 1974. In many cases, the common male ancestor of South Indians left the African continent before the ancestor of most Semites and Europeans. In other cases, their common ancestor was also the ancestor of most Europeans and Semites. There is no scientific evidence for recent mixing of African men among South Indian population. Most Africans are haplogroup A and B. These haplogroups are absent among Indians, including South Indians.
regards,
bob