09-19-2005, 11:45 PM
<b>Iran’s chamber of commerce is known for writing this type thesis to show the Iranians ruled entire India. Many Muslims of India are writing these types of articles also. </b>
The pre-classical period
1. The origins of the Tamil people, as with the other Dravidian peoples, are unknown, although genetic and archeological evidence suggest a possible migration into India around 6000 BC (Gadgil 1997). <b>Connections with the Elamite people of ancient Iran have been suggested, but there is little solid evidence to support this view. It has also been suggested that the people of the Indus Valley civilisation were either Tamil or another Dravidian people (see e.g. Parpola 1974; 2003), but this theory is deeply controversial and there is at present no academic consensus on the identity of the Indus people.</b>
<b>The earliest clear evidence of the presence of the Tamil people in modern Tamil Nadu are the megalithic urn burials, dating from around 1000 BC onwards, which have been discovered at various places in Tamil Nadu, notably Adichanallur. These burials conform in a number of details to the descriptions of funerals in classical Tamil literature, and appear to be concrete evidence of the existence of Tamils in southern India during that period. Recent excavations at these sites have also provided samples of early Tamil writing, dating back to at least 500 BC. (The Hindu, 2005) [1]</b>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_people
The pre-classical period
1. The origins of the Tamil people, as with the other Dravidian peoples, are unknown, although genetic and archeological evidence suggest a possible migration into India around 6000 BC (Gadgil 1997). <b>Connections with the Elamite people of ancient Iran have been suggested, but there is little solid evidence to support this view. It has also been suggested that the people of the Indus Valley civilisation were either Tamil or another Dravidian people (see e.g. Parpola 1974; 2003), but this theory is deeply controversial and there is at present no academic consensus on the identity of the Indus people.</b>
<b>The earliest clear evidence of the presence of the Tamil people in modern Tamil Nadu are the megalithic urn burials, dating from around 1000 BC onwards, which have been discovered at various places in Tamil Nadu, notably Adichanallur. These burials conform in a number of details to the descriptions of funerals in classical Tamil literature, and appear to be concrete evidence of the existence of Tamils in southern India during that period. Recent excavations at these sites have also provided samples of early Tamil writing, dating back to at least 500 BC. (The Hindu, 2005) [1]</b>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_people