Dravidians

79:3.1The blend­ing of the And­ite con­querors of In­dia with the na­tive stock even­tu­ally re­sulted in that mixed peo­ple which has been called Dra­vid­ian. The ear­lier and purer Dra­vid­i­ans pos­sessed a great ca­pac­ity for cul­tural achieve­ment, which was con­tin­u­ously weak­ened as their And­ite in­her­i­tance be­came pro­gres­sively at­ten­u­ated. And this is what doomed the bud­ding civ­i­liza­tion of In­dia al­most twelve thou­sand years ago. But the in­fu­sion of even this small amount of the blood of Adam pro­duced a marked ac­cel­er­a­tion in so­cial de­vel­op­ment. This com­pos­ite stock im­me­di­ately pro­duced the most ver­sa­tile civ­i­liza­tion then on earth.

79:3.2Not long af­ter con­quer­ing In­dia, the Dra­vid­ian And­ites lost their racial and cul­tural con­tact with Mes­o­po­ta­mia, but the later open­ing up of the sea lanes and the car­a­van routes re-es­tab­lished these con­nec­tions; and at no time within the last ten thou­sand years has In­dia ever been en­tirely out of touch with Mes­o­po­ta­mia on the west and China to the east, al­though the moun­tain bar­ri­ers greatly fa­vored west­ern in­ter­course.

79:3.3The su­pe­rior cul­ture and re­li­gious lean­ings of the peo­ples of In­dia date from the early times of Dra­vid­ian dom­i­na­tion and are due, in part, to the fact that so many of the Sethite priest­hood en­tered In­dia, both in the ear­lier And­ite and in the later Aryan in­va­sions. The thread of mono­the­ism run­ning through the re­li­gious his­tory of In­dia thus stems from the teach­ings of the Adamites in the sec­ond gar­den.

79:3.4As early as 16,000 B.C. a com­pany of one hun­dred Sethite priests en­tered In­dia and very nearly achieved the re­li­gious con­quest of the west­ern half of that poly­glot peo­ple. But their re­li­gion did not per­sist. Within five thou­sand years their doc­trines of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity had de­gen­er­ated into the tri­une sym­bol of the fire god.

79:3.5But for more than seven thou­sand years, down to the end of the And­ite mi­gra­tions, the re­li­gious sta­tus of the in­hab­i­tants of In­dia was far above that of the world at large. Dur­ing these times In­dia bid fair to pro­duce the lead­ing cul­tural, re­li­gious, philo­sophic, and com­mer­cial civ­i­liza­tion of the world. And but for the com­plete sub­mer­gence of the And­ites by the peo­ples of the south, this des­tiny would prob­a­bly have been re­al­ized.

79:3.6The Dra­vid­ian cen­ters of cul­ture were lo­cated in the river val­leys, prin­ci­pally of the In­dus and Ganges, and in the Dec­can along the three great rivers flow­ing through the East­ern Ghats to the sea. The set­tle­ments along the sea­coast of the West­ern Ghats owed their promi­nence to mar­itime re­la­tion­ships with Sume­ria.

79:3.7The Dra­vid­i­ans were among the ear­li­est peo­ples to build cities and to en­gage in an ex­ten­sive ex­port and im­port busi­ness, both by land and sea. By 7000 B.C. camel trains were mak­ing reg­u­lar trips to dis­tant Mes­o­po­ta­mia; Dra­vid­ian ship­ping was push­ing coast­wise across the Ara­bian Sea to the Sume­rian cities of the Per­sian Gulf and was ven­tur­ing on the wa­ters of the Bay of Ben­gal as far as the East In­dies. An al­pha­bet, to­gether with the art of writ­ing, was im­ported from Sume­ria by these sea­far­ers and mer­chants.

79:3.8These com­mer­cial re­la­tion­ships greatly con­tributed to the fur­ther di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion of a cos­mopoli­tan cul­ture, re­sult­ing in the early ap­pear­ance of many of the re­fine­ments and even lux­u­ries of ur­ban life. When the later ap­pear­ing Aryans en­tered In­dia, they did not rec­og­nize in the Dra­vid­i­ans their And­ite cousins sub­merged in the San­gik races, but they did find a well-ad­vanced civ­i­liza­tion. De­spite bi­o­logic lim­i­ta­tions, the Dra­vid­i­ans founded a su­pe­rior civ­i­liza­tion. It was well dif­fused through­out all In­dia and has sur­vived on down to mod­ern times in the Dec­can.

79:4.2The early Aryan cen­ters were scat­tered over the north­ern half of In­dia, no­tably in the north­west. These in­vaders never com­pleted the con­quest of the coun­try and sub­se­quently met their un­do­ing in this ne­glect since their lesser num­bers made them vul­ner­a­ble to ab­sorp­tion by the Dra­vid­i­ans of the south, who sub­se­quently over­ran the en­tire penin­sula ex­cept the Hi­malayan prov­inces.

78:5.6These And­ites were the so-called Dra­vid­ian and later Aryan con­querors of In­dia; and their pres­ence in cen­tral Asia greatly up­stepped the an­ces­tors of the Tu­ra­ni­ans. Many of this race jour­neyed to China by way of both Sinkiang and Ti­bet and added de­sir­able qual­i­ties to the later Chi­nese stocks. From time to time small groups made their way into Japan, For­mosa, the East In­dies, and south­ern China, though very few en­tered south­ern China by the coastal route.