The Great Indian Myth

For people who are interested in ancient Indian History and have been digging around in the internet this might not come as a surprise. There has been a lot debate between Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT), Aryan Migration theory (AMT) etc., This report from Times of India which says the basic Aryan-Dravidian Separation is a myth is pretty interesting, in that it not only dumps one of the most controversial theories - primarily AIT, which the British used to legitimize their colonization of India. Also, it would be interesting to see what this does to the prevailing theory which attributes everything from vedas to the invading Aryans and that the Dravidians who were in the NW part of India were pushed down to South India. What would this do to the Dravidian politics as practiced by DMK, ADMK, MDMK and so on in Tamil Nadu? Perhaps nothing, but still i will keep an eye.

From TOI:

The great Indian divide along north-south lines now stands blurred. A pathbreaking study by Harvard and indigenous researchers on ancestral Indian populations says there is a genetic relationship between all Indians and more importantly, the hitherto believed ``fact'' that Aryans and Dravidians signify the ancestry of north and south Indians might after all, be a myth.

``This paper rewrites history... there is no north-south divide,'' Lalji Singh, former director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) and a co-author of the study, said at a press conference here on Thursday.