From Meluhha To Pakistan: The Embodiment Of A Civilization

Tinu · April 2, 2013, 4:06pm

Re: From Meluhha To Pakistan: The Embodiment Of A Civilization

I Am trying to understand the psychology here

i think you are stuck with half-truths.

the academics who believe meluhha referred to the indus valley people also believe the people of this civilization were dravidians who moved further away from this region post-climate change etc.. much of the evidence for the meluhha indus valley theory is based out of dravidian language word-matching with loanwords in the sumerian language - the reasoning being that these words were used to refer to non-native items brought in by rich trade with meluhha. the evidence isn’t all that convincing, but even if it were true, that would mean the scions of indus valley pretty much are the south indians and eastern and central indian tribals like the gonds and bheels. the vast majority of sindhis and punjabis etc have nothing to do with dravidians and are a continuum of the north indian ethnicity of the modern indo-gangetic plains.

The Dravidian theory in Indus Valley Civilization basically emerge from the Aryan Invasion Theory which has been trashed by almost all of Indian scholars and many of Western ones as well. Therefore, there is no truth in it any longer. Also, please understand that the languages do not have to travel with the people for these to be identical. In any case, the language of the Meluhha has not even been deciphered so far for any one to know if it were Dravidian or any other.

The most interesting thing which the author of this piece has also brought about is the fact that while there are artifacts present in Sumer (Mesopotamia), there are no Sumerian artifacts excavated from any of the IVC sites. These linkages were one sided and the history and the archeological evidence proves it.

However, at the same time, it is also proved that the genetic format of majority of people from Pakistan and therefore Meluhha is different than that of the the Indian genetic format. The Pakistani genetic origin is more linked to people from Iran, Turkey, Arab and Central Asia and only limited genetic link with India exists. Interestingly also, the Ancestral North Indians and the Ancestral South Indians are also genetically different.

There was no or may be a limited link with central and south Indians with the people of Indus Valley Civilization. The links if at all were established much much later.

What you have stated have no historical and proven facts in support of such a theory.