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Origin and Development of The Concept of The Aryan-Dravidian Dichotomy

Autoři: Kaushik Arvind Swaminath

Rok: 2018

Druh publikace: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

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Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
eng	Origin and Development of The Concept of The Aryan-Dravidian Dichotomy	When one looks back at the twentieth century, one can reasonably argue that nationalism has been one of its defining features. During this time, many colonies of Britain got independence from the Empire and formed their own nation states. Most of the independence movements in these former colonies took the form of some nationalism or other. India, in one sense, is a microcosm of this trend. Various freedom and independence movements arose in India during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Most of these movements promoted some or other idea of nationalism, usually revolving around ethnic or religious identity. One such nationalist movement which arose in India during the twentieth century was the Dravidian movement. The architects of the movement wanted to protect Tamil language and culture and envisioned a Tamil nation separate from India. A rationalist, anti-brahmin ideology formed the foundation for this movement (Irschick, 1969). Brahmins were considered a foreign, Aryan element in the Tamil culture, who have corrupted it with their Hindu religion, Sanskrit language, and caste system. Although this movement began in the early twentieth century, and became well known and popular during that time, the intellectual beginnings of this nationalism go back to the late nineteenth century, to certain intellectuals from the Saiva Siddhanta tradition in Tamil Nadu (Vaitheespara, 2010). These Saivites began to recast Saiva Siddhanta as a Tamil religion. Far from being the rationalist/atheist nationalism that it would later become, the nationalism propounded by these Saivites was a religious nationalism. Saiva Siddhanta was inextricably linked to Tamil civilization and heritage. It was they who began to propagate the idea that the non-saiva siddhanta Hindu traditions were foreign to Tamil culture and brought there by the Brahmins. The Brahmins were described as Aryan invaders who along with Hinduism, brought the caste system into Tamil Nadu and imposed it on the native