Introduction: It is curious why The Hindu newspaper has chosen to revisit Prof. Nilakanta Sastri’s 1964 lecture at this time, especially when more recent studies have emerged in the field.

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.

The remarks that the Governor of Tamil Nadu, R.N. Ravi, made last week, on Aryan-Dravidian differences being geographical and not racial, offer remarkable insights into the contemporary political ...

Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi on Monday claimed that great national freedom fighters like Maruthu brothers and Muthuramalinga Thevar have been reduced to the stature of caste leaders due to ...

The number of castes and tribes has gone up after the British colonial rule and new identities like Dravidian and Aryan, something the country never knew, came into existence and became points of ...

By the time of the establishment of states along the Ganges more than a thousand years later, Dravidian and Aryan groups were mixing and influencing each other, though it probably took a long time ...

VELLORE: The geographical regions, north and south of the Vindhyas known as 'Panch Aryas' and 'Panch Dravidas' respectively were mischievously distorted to create a racial divide among the people ...

There is a theory that the change in Indo-Aryan language over the years has been due to the influence of ancient Dravidian literature. But Dr Hans Henrich Hock, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics ...

"Let Leader of the Opposition Siddaramaiah first declare whether he is a Dravidian or Aryan", said Basavaraj Bommai. Siddaramaiah on Friday said that RSS is not an outfit of native Indians and ...