Question
Write a note on the Dravidians.
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Answer
- Dravidians were the direct descendants of Stone Age Civilisation and the creators of Mohen-jo-Daro culture.
- They originally belonged to India and were first settled in the North. However, due to the dominance of the Aryans they shifted to South India.
- They gave us the concept of mother as Goddess and father as God so the thought of Parvati and Shiv as mother and father god developed.
- They have given the tradition of worshipping Nature and animals.
- They also gave us method of using 'Dhup' (incense stick), 'Deep' (lamp) and 'Aarti'.
- They had a matriarchal(maternal) system of family.
- They gave us languages like (KMTl’) Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu.
- They have also gifted the art of building boats and rafts, weaving, spinning and dyeing.
- Later there were inter-caste marriages between the Aryans and Dravidians.
- The Aryans accepted the deities of Dravidians and worshipped them as a part of their culture.
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