The human history in Indian subcontinent is much older than that in Europe and American continent. The current genetic research suggests that first human migration to the subcontinent occured somewhere around 60,000 years ago. Since then, waves of migration has taken place to the subcontinent and this is evident in the form of different facial features and great diversity among the people of the subcontinent.
The human culture and language is never static but keeps changing. Our ancestors in northern part of Indian subcontinent spoke SANSKRIT during prehistoric period and then it was replaced by PAALI.
PAALI was widely spoken two thousand years ago in many parts of northern India. Even our religion has changed from Hinduism to Budhism and then to Islam and Christianity and Sikh for many of us. My own ancestors in Sindh abandoned Hinduism and adopted Islam about five hundred years ago.
Our future descendents too will change their culture and would speak a different language and might adopt an unknown religion. If vedic history is researched then it seems that prehistoric women in the subcontinent had much more independence than what prevails today.
I have seen the pictures of my community taken almost hundred years ago and everyone had long hairs and beard and they all wore turbans. Today most of my community members are clean shaven and have European hair style and wear European paint and shirt.
My own grandmother always wore Islamic burka while my grand father had a big beard and wore turban. My father became clean shaven and adopted European style dress and hair cut while my mother continued to wear burka for a while and then abandoned it completely. My sisters never wore burka. My ancestors spoke Sindhi style language which continued till last generation but now my sisters and brother have adopted Urdu/Hindi as their mother tongue.
So these are the cultural changes which are taking place gradually. Today almost everybody in Urban part of the subcontinent speak a language with predominantly English words with Urdu/Hindi grammer. This is probably giving rise to a future language which would have all the English words with Hindi/Urdu grammer. Just listen to any Urdu/Hindi radio station in Canada and you would find almost everyone speaking like this.
My question is about how all this would extrapolate after a century. Is it that most of our descendents would adopt English as their language as has happened with respect to our dress and hair style? Is it that our women become more and more independent just like westernised women? It will be interesting to hear from all of you. After all internet brainstorming sometimes crop up interesting points.
