• ISBN13: 9788121233378
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
• Publisher Imprint: Gyan Publishing House
• Publication Date: January 1, 2020
• Pages: 116
• Original Price: INR 230.0
• Language: English
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• Item Weight: 260 grams
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The work, of which this treatise is the first part, has been written to prove, mainly on philological grounds, the antiquity and expansion of the Gauda-Dravidian race in India. This first part is devoted to its Dravidian branch. The second part will treat of the Gaudians, and in the third will be considered the conclusions which may be deduced from the two preceding. An appendix will contain the numerous geographical names scattered over India, which indicate the presence of the Gauda-Dravidian race. In pursuing the ramifications of the Dravidian population throughout the peninsula, the author hopes he has been able to point out the connection existing between several tribes, apparently widely different from each other. He has tried thus to identify the so-called Pariahs of Southern India with the old Dravidian mountaineers and to establish their relationship to the Bhars, Brahuis, Mhars, Mahars, Paharias, Paravari, Paradas and others; all these tribes forming, as it were, the first layer of the ancient Dravidian stratum. In addition to this he trusts he has shown that all such different tribes as the Mallas, Pallas, Pallavas, Balias, Bhillas and others are one and all offshoots of the Dravidian race. Keeping the text in mind this book will serve a good purpose to common readers.

Gustav Solomon Oppert was a German Indologist and Sanskritist. He was a professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology, Presidency College, Madras, a Telugu translator to government, and a curator in the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library. He was a professor in Madras from 1872 to 1893. He was also editor of the Madras Journal of Literature and Science from 1878 to 1882. After traveling in north India from 1893 to 1894, he returned to Europe in 1894.Oppert used extensive philological research to support the idea of the Dravidians as the original inhabitants of India. Among popular Dravidians, Oppert counts Thiruvalluvar, who wrote the Thirukkural, and Avvaiyar, the Tamil poet saint. He edited the book entitled Ramarajiyamu or Narapativijayamu written in Telugu by Venkayya, when he was working at Presidency College. It was published by Vavilla Ramaswamy Sastrulu and Sons in 1923.