Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c46.7

c46.7

§ 5. The connection of the Āryas with Dravidian India seems to have been of a different character from that established in the Gangetic region and the Panjāb. There does not appear to have been any colonisation, and little, if any, cross-breeding. It may be fairly conjectured that the open and fertile plains of the south-east afforded opportunities for civilisation upon local lines to an extent which, by the time the Āryas had spread to the means of access from the north, had placed the Dravidian communities in a much stronger position than the Kōl tribes of the Continental plains. From the Āryan additions to the vocabulary of the vernacular tongues and the special features of the Brāhmanism and the social system of the South it may be inferred that the influence of Āryan civilisation was there of a missionary, not political or military, character. The cloak of Brāhmanic orthodoxy was thrown over the local deities and ceremonial, and social divisions adopted the Brāhmanic organisation; but,