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“India is facing a important menace from systematic distortion of past done mythological narratives,” said K. Veeramani, president of the Dravidar Kazhagam.
Addressing a State-level conference, titled ‘Redeeming India’s past from distortions’, astatine Lady Doak College present connected Wednesday, helium said portion subject was utilized to disprove myths, Hindutva organisations and fringe elements were attempting to usage technological connection to support them.
He said mythologies should ne'er beryllium treated arsenic philosophies and argued that determination was an progressive effort to marginalise Dravidian civilisation portion promoting Aryan civilisation.
“There is simply a strategical intent to rewrite past to assertion that Aryan civilisation was the archetypal to look globally,” helium noted.
According to Mr. Veeramani, a circumstantial radical has been moving deliberately to supress Dravidian past done monolithic fabrications and falsehoods.
Stating that Sanskrit was not an autarkic language, helium said the word ‘Sanskrit’ itself meant ‘refined’ oregon ‘well-cooked.’ Scholars had identified galore Dravidian words successful Sanskrit.
He alleged that determination was a calculated effort to rename the Indus Valley Civilisation arsenic the ‘Saraswati Civilisation.’ By these attempts to make a caller communicative nether the guise of research, past was being reshaped to acceptable circumstantial views, often involving slanderous campaigns against minorities.
Recalling the teachings of Periyar, helium urged the nationalist to trust connected their ain rationality alternatively than believing things blindly. Women contiguous had made strides successful assorted fields due to the fact that the chains of pistillate servitude were broken, whereas they were antecedently subjected to favoritism similar being barred from sitting connected chairs oregon utilizing umbrellas, helium added.
“The principles of Self-Respect Movement are rooted successful humanism, asserting that nary quality being is superior oregon inferior to another,” helium emphasised.
Archaeological Findings
K. Amarnath Ramakrishna, Director of National Mission connected Monuments and Antiquities, said assemblage power taught Indians however to grounds history.
Earlier, epics similar the Ramayana and the Mahabharata were often mistaken for existent history. He explained that owed to a deficiency of documentation, it was agelong believed that Tamil past began lone astir 300 B.C. during the Sangam period.
However, helium said, Keezhadi excavations had proven that Tamil past dated backmost respective centuries earlier. “The afloat study of these findings is being suppressed due to the fact that it contradicts the preferred communicative of those who reason Dravidian culture,” helium added.
Even a superior survey provided capable worldly for researchers to solidify the past of the Tamils, helium said.
Referring to a familial survey conducted successful Usilampatti, helium said Madurai had identified an idiosyncratic with a 60,000-year-old familial makeup, and the uncovering further supported the Keeladi discoveries.
