The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c16.s1.54

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c16.s1.54

About the Dravidian, more caution is needed. Prof. Von Eickstedt, in a personal communication, suggested that we are more justified in treating this as a linguistic term, than as an ethnic one. At one time, Dravidian had a much greater distribution, since it influenced the Sanskrit language at a very early age. Burrow has pointed that this contact could not be in the south, where we have the Dravidian speakers today. If we take that in a broad sense, there are only two possible claimants:

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