Using new linguistic analyses, a study, co-authored by the University of Bristol, has shown that the Dravidian languages – spoken by 220 million people across South Asia, date back to about 4,500 ...

“There are no Dravidian people or Aryan people - just ... in English – and it can help researchers fill in the gaps for artifacts with damaged or missing signs. Significantly, knowing these ...

The Dravidians—believed to be the original ... The Indus Valley Civilization, stretching back to 2500 BCE, left behind artifacts—seals of horned gods, figures in deep yogic meditation, sacred ...

In a May 21 letter, ASI asked K Amarnath Ramakrishna—who led the first two phases of excavations at the politically sensitive ...

The Dravidian language family, consisting of 80 varieties spoken by nearly 220 million people across southern and central India, originated about 4,500 years ago, a study has found. This estimate ...

Many of these artifacts bear what appear to be specimens ... others situated it in the Dravidian family; still others thought it was related to a language of Easter Island. Rao came to appreciate ...

The International School of Dravidian Linguistics (ISDL), Thiruvananthapuram, is the brainchild of VI Subramaniam, an eminent linguist and one of the pioneers in the academic study of Dravidian ...

The report is significant because Dravidian movement politicians in Tamil Nadu have long claimed that the people of the Indus Valley Civilisation could be ancestors of the modern Tamils.

The Governor of Tamil Nadu has been criticised by some for expressing his views on the Aryan-Dravidian divide. Some have gone to the extent of calling this political interference. This is unfair.