How Tamil and Tamil culture was separated from Sanskrit and it's vedic roots.
In 1801 H.T.Colebrooke published an important article which claimed all Indian languages originated from Sanskrit, which was reassured in 1816 by Frank Bopp .
In 1801 H.T.Colebrooke published an important article which claimed all Indian languages originated from Sanskrit, which was reassured in 1816 by Frank Bopp .
It was Alexander D. Campbell and Francis Whyte Ellis, collector of madras who refuted and said Tamil and were not from Sanskrit.their book “ Grammar of the teloogoo language” (1816) argues that Tamil and Telugu had common non Sanskrit ancestors.
No indian thinker previously had made such a bizarre claim.
Ellis claimed that Tamil is connected to Hebrew and also with ancient Arabic
Their logic was since William Jones considered Sanskrit to be a language of Ham and others scholars say Sanskrit language of Japheth ,
Ellis claimed that Tamil is connected to Hebrew and also with ancient Arabic
Their logic was since William Jones considered Sanskrit to be a language of Ham and others scholars say Sanskrit language of Japheth ,
so Dravidians must be descendants of Shem, this made Dravidians the same family of Jews.
Equipped with this bizarre theory Bishop Caldwell arrived at madras when he was 44 with the missionary society of London and joined with propagation of gospel.
Equipped with this bizarre theory Bishop Caldwell arrived at madras when he was 44 with the missionary society of London and joined with propagation of gospel.
He went on to become the Bishop of Tirunelvali and worth the most infamous book “ A political and General History of The district of Tirunelveli (1881), published by east India company madras presidency.
His established the theological foundation that Dravidian separatism from Hinduism, backed by the church. And backed by the Christian usurpation of classical art and literature of Ancient Tamils. 80 years later a statue was erected for him in Chennai.
He intensely studied Tamil literature and praised them and projected that Tamil culture is totally diffrent from the rest of India. This lay foundation to Tamil racists politics.
He demonised kural and saiva siddantha and essentialised Dravidians by constructing their racial “ others “ as Brahmins. Through this manipulation, the Brahmins were made into colonisers while actual colonisers like Caldwell were projected as saviour of Tamils.
Since then the propaganda to construct ethnic religious group “Tamil religion” by blaming the Brahmins is in progress. The rabid pressure to establish the Christian identity to Tamils has been in full force.
EVR, Anna, Karunanidhi saw this as an opportunity and took this already sold idea as their political ideology, which to this day DMK identifies fiercely as anti- Brahmin.
Source : Breaking India
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