What is the difference between Aryans and Dravidians?

People living in North India have been referred to as Aryans, and those belonging to south India have been labeled as Dravidians for the last many centuries. Indians were made to believe that north Indians are descendants of Aryans while south Indians are the descendants of Dravidians.

What is the difference between Arya and Dravida?

Etymologically, the root word ‘Arya’ means noble or say ‘shreshtha’ in Hindi. It has nothing to do with racial identity. It was Max Muller who used the term Aryan for racial identity. Similarly, Dravidian is a term used for people of south Indian affinities.

Who were the original Aryans?

Aryan, name originally given to a people who were said to speak an archaic Indo-European language and who were thought to have settled in prehistoric times in ancient Iran and the northern Indian subcontinent.

Who came first Dravidians or Aryans?

One of these ideas is that India is a land of two races – the lighter- skinned Aryans and the darker-skinned Dravidians – and that the Dravidians were the original inhabitants of India whom the invading Aryans conquered and dominated.”

Are Aryans and Dravidians same race?

The theory propounded by German comparative philologists in the 1840s and 1850s “maintained that the speakers of Indo-European languages in India, Persia, and Europe were of the same culture and race.” This led to a distinction between the Indo-Aryan peoples of northern India and the Dravidian peoples, located mostly …

What did the ancient Aryans look like?

The ideal Aryan had pale skin, blond hair and blue eyes. Non-Aryans came to be seen as impure and even evil. Hitler believed that Aryan superiority was being threatened particularly by the Jews.

Can a non Brahmin become a Brahmin?

As long as caste is mentioned in government forms, a non Brahmin cannot become a Brahmin and vice versa.

Is Shiva a Dravidian God?

Shiva is a Dravidian god. Because a Dravidian is primarily a Hindu, they follow the caste system and worship the Aryan pantheon of gods, but due to circumstances they speak south Indian languages. In other words Shiva is an Aryan god fully accepted by the Dravidians.