The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c14.s1.t7.27

c14.s1.t7.27

¹ We should remember the caution uttered by Maxmuller. "Confusion has arisen due to mixing up of philology with ethnology. Language and classification of races should be made independently. A race can change its language".......Should we not consider the culture complex as a single whole, specially the social structure etc. At a time when Deccan was comparatively unknown, we find a broad generalization based on the system of marriages. Baudhayana says, that the cross-cousin marriage is prevalent among the southerners. (Dakshinayanam matulasuta parinayanam). As a matter of fact, but for the differences in language, social structure, kinship etc., the whole religious, intellectual and cultural heritage of the whole sub-continent is the same. Even the well-known Early Sangam literature, which is full of references to the megalithic burials, is described by Prof. Nilakanthasastry as a composite culture of the "Aryan and the Tamilian".