ArtReview Asia Asia - Winter 2016
English | 117 pages | pdf | 55.39 MB
Description: "It was a sunny day in Madras. Aananthi had come to the great port with his mother Aananthy to meet his father Aanaimugan. Aanaimugan was the Taṇbal (captain) of a maňci (cargo ship) that was returning to Madras from Southeast Asia.
Aananthi liked visiting the port. Here he saw large Yaksha junks from South China and Naga war ships in port to buy metals to make weapons to fight the Vietnamese . He was especially excited to see the Kappal (ships) from Malay. The malumi (captain) of the Malay ship was Aditya. Aditya had been born in Madras.
Aananthi was excited because Aanaimugan had promised him, that he would train him to become a malumi of a maňci or kappal if he kept up his studies in math, the nautical sciences and Tamil. Aananthi knew his studies were important, because at this time Tamil (a Dravidian language) was spoken in the major towns and cities from India to China, all the way to the Islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans."
In this fictional story we learn about the influence of Dravidian merchants and captains in the vast trade network that formerly existed in Asia that was dominated by Dravidian speakers. In The Dravido-Harappans of Inner Asia explains genetics research that indicate that many Eurasian populations carry genes associated with the Dravidian speaking people of South India.
In The Dravido-Harappans of Inner Asia we discuss the origin of Dravidian speakers in Middle Africa, and their first expansion, from Africa to Iran. This book outlines the Dravidian migrations from Iran, on into the Indus Valley, and from there into Central Asia where Dravidians left many place names.
The Dravido-Harappans of Inner Asia , illustrates how Dravidians who founded the first Shang Empire, later made their way to southern China where they built large junks, and catamarans that helped spread Dravidian influence in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the linguistic data that support a relationship between the Dravidian languages (Tamil) and , the Indo-European, Elamite, Ural-Altaic and Sumerian languages.
The Dravido-Harappans of Inner Asia is a comprehensive text, that tells the story of Dravidians in Asia over the past 3,000 years. It is the history of Dravidians in Eurasia prior too, and during the militant expansion of the contemporary Indonesians, Han/Chinese and Southeast Asians who presently live in the region. It provides the reader with an explanation of why Dravidian speakers have influenced many populations outside South India from the distant past up until today.
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