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Journal: Vedic Science
Volume: 27 | Issue: 4 | Year: 2025
Pages: 07–21
DOI: https://doi.org/10.xxxx/vedic.2025.xxx
Received: 10 July 2025
Accepted: 25 August 2025
Published: 10 October 2025

Busting the Myth of the Arya–Dravidian Divide in India

Prof. Ravi Prakash Arya, President Vedic Science Virtual Vishva Vidyapeeth USA

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https://doi.org/vedic science /xxxxx

Abstract

The Arya–Dravidian divide has long been presented as a foundational framework for understanding Indian history, linguistics, and population origins. This paper critically examines this construct and argues that it is not an indigenous civilizational reality but a colonial-era hypothesis shaped by missionary objectives, racial anthropology, and Eurocentric chronology. Drawing upon Vedic literature, Dharmaśāstra, historical linguistics, archaeology, population genetics, and astronomy-based chronology, the study demonstrates that Ārya and Drāviḍa are civilizational, cultural, and ethical descriptors rather than racial or ethnic categories. Linguistic continuity across Sanskrit and South Indian languages, genetic gradients without demographic rupture, and textual evidence from the Vedas, Manusmṛti, and Itihāsa collectively invalidate the notion of a binary Aryan–Dravidian opposition. The paper concludes that Indian civilization represents a continuous, internally diversified cultural continuum and that the Arya–Dravidian divide is best understood as a colonial narrative rather than a historical fact.

Keywords

Arya–Dravidian divide, Sanskrit, Drāviḍa, Vedas, Manusmṛti, population genetics, colonial historiography, Indian chronology

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