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Is Telugu a Dravidian?
Telugu. Among the Dravidian languages, Telugu is spoken by the largest population. After Hindi and Bengali it is the third most frequently spoken of all the Indian languages. Telugu place-names occur in Prakrit inscriptions from the 2nd century ce.
What is the sub caste of Reddy?
Only the Telugu Reddy-Reddy of Karnataka belong to OBC which is called 3A in Karnataka.
Who gave name Dravidam?
The actual term Dravidian was first employed by Robert A. Caldwell, who introduced the Sanskrit word dravida (which, in a 7th-century text, obviously meant Tamil) into his epoch-making A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South Indian Family of Languages (1856).
Is Reddy common name in India?
Reddy/Reddi is an Indian surname. In India it is predominantly used by members of the Telugu speaking Reddy caste. It is also used as a surname by members of the Reddi Lingayat and Reddy Vokkaliga communities of Karnataka.
What is the difference between Dravidians and Adi-Dravidian?
The division between Dravidians and Adi-Dravidians is purely artificial and the result of Aryan invasions, with the former choosing to adopting Aryan culture and submit as slaves to the Aryans and the latter battling the savage Aryans, retaining their freedom in the jungles.
What is the origin of the Dravidians?
Dravidians. While genetically, farmers from Iran contributed to most of the DNA of the northwestern subcontinent and the IVC, around 5,000 years ago, some farmer groups began to fan out, mix with the aborigine Indians in much of what is present day India, and establish agricultural communities throughout the subcontinent.
What is the difference between Arya and Dravid?
Dravidians had an advanced city culture more ancient than the Aryans, who, as Indian legends tell and some dispute, invaded India from central Asia in several waves around 1500 BCE. The Rig Veda , an ancient Hindu scripture, records the destruction of Harappa, then called Hariyopiyah (5.27.5).
Are Telugu people of Aryan or Dravidian ancestry?
Telugu people like other Indians are of mixed Aryan-Dravidian Lineages. No Telugu person can claim pure Aryan ancestry no one can claim pure Dravidian ancestry either.