From: selvakum@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (C.R.Selvakumar - Electrical Engineering)
Subject: Ancient indian history
Keywords: skuls, aryan, dravidian
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:14:08 GMT


In article <101862@bu.edu>, narain@csa.bu.edu (narain attili) writes:
> In article <BxnwFy.7qG@ireq.hydro.qc.ca: srini@ireq-num.hydro.qc.ca (Srinivasan K.) writes:
> :In article <100804@bu.edu: narain@csa.bu.edu (narain attili) writes:
> ::In article <BxA0w9.v3@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca: selvakum@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (C.R.Selvakumar - Electrical Engineering) writes:
> :::
> :::     It is absolutely amazing how the new artifact can stir anything !!
> :::     The artifact of 3000-4500 old human head has nothing to link with
> :::     either dravidian or aryan and why should it give 'a new life'
> :::     to a 'controvesy'? Well there were so many artifacts and scripts !!
> ::
> ::Certainly it gives a new life. It is like this. An artifact that *might* be
> ::an evidence of aryan presence before the presently accepted time of arrival
> ::is discovered. If this were to be proved conclusive..then this proves that
> ::aryans were in india even before the period of indus valley civilization.
> ::
> ::-Narain
> ::
> :Could not the SINGLE skull be that of a visitor or brought in by someone
> :who went on a foreign trip as souvenir? It does not prove
> :all the people living there belonged to a Indo European race.
> :I am told that it was common to find such stray skulls in all the
> :other known archeological sites, like mongoloid, more easily recognizable
> :
> :I was not alive that time, I leave the controversey to you.
> :
> :K. Srinivasan
> 
> Well, to start with its not a skull we are discussing, but a
> statue/image/idol or some thing of that sort. 

       I had already written about my criticisms on Prof. Kak's claim that
       the statue was Vedic. I am NOT questioning the dating but only
        the description that it is 'vedic head'.

> 
> Coming to the point of stray skulls of indo-aryans at the indus sites (this
> question was i think raised previously by Selva Kumar also), According to
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        Yes, but no one has answered yet. Your input is not satisfactory,
        please read what follows.

> S.R Rao, if the decision about the people of indus civilization were to be
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> taken on the basis of the skeletons dug out, then the evidence is more in
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> favour of indo-aryan populace at those sites than of any other race. Hope
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> this clears up K.srinivasan's and Selva Kumar's doubts regarding some stray
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> skull managing to find its way into researcher's hands.
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       I asked about the relative size of the distributions. If S.R. Rao
       had estimated the size of the population of 'aryan' COMPARED with
       other races you said he had identified, can you please cite the
       page number and give the distribution as given Dr. S.R.Rao and
       level of confidence he gives ( since the excavations were on
       limited sites and I presume were not selected randomly among 
       known sites). I did NOT say that it was a stray skull ! I wanted
       to know the RELATIVE DISTRIBUTION if that was available. Further,
       in a recent book written by an authority and a 

       In a recent book by J.P. Mallory, "In search of Indo-Europeans"
       Thames and Hudson, the author does state that the Indus Civilization
       is not Indo-Aryan but most likely dravidian or elamo-dravidian.
       Please see Chapter 2 for supportive points. 
> 
> Once again, the reference is to S.R Rao's book, "Lothal and the Indus
> Civilization".
> 
> -Narain
> 
> 
         Regards
         Selva Selvakumar

Organization: Senior, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA