M. K. Stalin, the southern Tamil Nadu state leader offering the $1 million prize, is among those who believe the Indus language was a Dravidian ancestor – which Rao described as the more “traditional” ...

Work by an Indian cryptographer on the still-undeciphered Indus Valley script suggests Sanskrit may have been the root ...

Pointing to some of the similarities, he said: ‘There were bulls in the Indus Valley. Bulls are Dravidian symbols. Bulls are spread from Indus Valley to Alanganallur. ‘Ancient Tamil literature ...

The Dravidians—believed to be the original inhabitants of India—built cities so advanced that they baffle archaeologists even today. The Indus Valley Civilization, stretching back to 2500 BCE ...

Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi advocates renaming Indus Valley Civilization to Saraswathi Civilization, challenging historical narratives.

He said that evidence so far collected convinced him … that the Indus script was Dravidian. Further research will continue not only by him … but by others all over the world, he said.

Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi on Monday participated in the inaugural session of the two-day National Conference on Indus Civilisation ...

and proposed Dravidian etymologies for these Sanskrit words. Witzel, a professor of Sanskrit at Harvard (the same Witzel who declared the Indus Valley Civilisation pre-literate) saw instead a ...

Q If the Indus script was largely non-linguistic, why did your Chennai paper talk about ancestral Dravidian symbolism? Because, in order to express more abstract meanings, the Indus scribes sometimes ...

In his inaugural address at the two-day conference on ‘Indus Civilisation ... Caldwell played a major role in creating this Aryan-Dravidian divide, Ravi alleged that while the states speaking ...

Tamil is a Dravidian language ... iron was identified at sites in Uttar Pradesh — outside of the Indus Valley Civilization — dating to around 1800 BCE, which had also pushed back the Iron ...