Why South Indians are black?

I came across a post in famous forum Quora where people were debating on dark skin people of South Indian. There were many diverse answers. Some answers were hilarious and sounded foolish. 

Some said north Indian womens were married by invaders and slowly they lost there identity. Ahh! This sounds hilarious to me. There was a practice called sati (உடன் கட்டையெரிதல்) in ancient India. When husband die, the women would burn herself with him. There were laws introduced to eradicate Sati in 17th century only. So women who were molastated in battle crimes would kill themselves. Whoever is the foreigner they will become a new caste in Ancient India. And they will be living alone side with other caste in Ancient India. 

So how do we relate to the dark skin question. We all know the race theory. Chinese and Europeans are different and white because they are in and above tropical line. Africans and Indians are different and black because they are closure to Equator line. So you can think why some tamils and mallus are black. What i learnt from history is Manu is a Dravidian and we know the story of how he saved the humanity from great flood. We have similar accounts which talks about 72 Pandiya Kingdom which was sunken in sea. Mudattirumaran, a Pandiya King had a past history of his ancestors lost their land becuase of some kind of tsunami. They got help from Cheras and Cholas and moved into southern part of India. Since they are from Equator region their clans are black in color or dark skin or dark brown. There are many people who believes in this dimensions. Because of this belief the movie Kandam was created by Canadian. You might search about British Indian Ocean territory, Mauritius, Maldives, Lakshadweep, Dwaraka and connect with Lumeria concept.

Golden era of Chera dynasty

Today we are going to show some light on history from early Cheras. Cheras one of the powerful Kingdom of South India who ruled the sub continent from Himalayas to Kaniyakumari. The trade flourished between Europeans and Cheras during Roman Empire. Mucuri (Sangam) or Mucuripattanam  (Ramayana) or Muyirikottu (Jewish copper plates) or Muzuris (Indo - Roman) was a port on the west side of South India. Where trade happened for gold, pepper, tiger, slaves and clothes. The people who came from Greece or Rome were identified as Yavanas or Yavanar. 

    How do these people from Europe travel to West cost of South India? This is a time called Hippalus (South-west monsoon) blows on the Arabian sea. Myos hormos a port in current Africa or old Roman Empire starts their journey to Muzuris to trade pepper. This is foreign market of those time. However the Greeks do not know Chinese or South east Asians directly. They exchanged goods through traders in South India.

    There were many archeological evidences found in this region in the means of coins (Julius Caesar coins in thiruppur) and pottery. Kodumanal is in current thiruppur of Tamilnadu which is near to Mucuri through the palakkad gap of western ghats. City that clothed Rome. 

The great Tamil epic Cilappatikaram (The Story of the Anklet) written by Ilango Adigal, a Jain poet-prince from Kodungallur (Muziris) during the 2nd century A.D., described Muziris as a place where Greek traders would arrive in their ships to barter their gold to buy pepper and since barter trade is time-consuming, they lived in homes living a lifestyle that he termed as "exotic" and a source of "local wonder". 

    Three Tamil-Brahmi scripts were also found in the Pattanam excavations. The last Tamil-Brahmi script (dated to c. 2nd century AD, probably reading "a-ma-na", meaning "a Jaina" in Tamil) was found on a pot-rim at Pattanam. If the rendering and the meaning is not mistaken, it establishes that Jainism was prevalent on the Malabar Coast at least from the 2nd century. 

    There were proofs that west believed earth was flat and we know the story of Galileo and after 350 years Vatican agreed that Galileo was right. Heliocentric theory came later into Greeks because those were taught to them. Yavanajataka, first form of current jathakam were in Sanskrit and that's the one of the reason why Sanskrit is considered as Indo-Aryan languages by many in Dravidian culture.

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Legacy of Pallava Dynasty

These 2 Nandhivarman have changed my thinking pattern about Kings. We will talk about Nandhivarman 2, to understand this we need to know why these old time leaders have gone to Kambujadesam to bring their King. Few generations before their ancestors had 2 brothers. Elder one crowned as King of Pallava Kingdom from Kanchipuram and younger moved to current Laos region and formed Kambujadesam and ruled there. When Parameswaravarnam a Pallava King was killed by Vikramadhithya 1 in battle field, he died without heir. So the elderly leaders decided to travel to Kambujadesam. They brought a 13 year old boy to Kanchipuram and named Nandhivarman and gave the Kingdom. I want to understand more about what kind of laws they would had and what kind of education these people have undergone. I want understand the Tamil wisdom. They had a relationship with southeast Asia even before Rajendra Chola. This incident connects the dots how did Cholas know about கிழக்கு சீமை, Siam, Kadaram, Kambujadesam and had closer relationship. 

When we talk about Nandhivarman 3, we need to study நந்திக் கலம்பகம் and it is special in history books. This King want to hear Tamil poem couplets and died for this reason. The King came to know about the new கலம்பகம் and want to taste the nectar of the poem. When he had a desire to listen the Tamil couplets, the poet told conditions that he should arrange his own death bed and die listening to the last couplet. The below Tamil couplet was the one the King listened and after listening he accepted the death. I don't understand what kind of thought process those ancestors had to choose death for Tamil poem couplets. This history is out of the world.

These Ancestors had blood relations with Southeast Asian Kingdoms. Now it is clear how these people wrote யாதும் ஊரே, யாவரும் கேளிர். The Pallavas created their own script and that is called Pallava Grantha and for these reasons we should understand the connection between Khmer with Pallava Grantha. I have given enough proof on the topic tamils were around the world. These dots will support the Theory of aliens were around. By these links the number system (yen) was given to the world by tamils. 

Mamallapuram or Mahabalipuram is one of the tourist spot of Thondaimandalam which is the current Chennai city. The shore temple is declared as UNESCO world heritage site. Pancha Rathas is an example of monolithic South Indian rockcut architecture. 

Sandras or Sathurangapattinam located on coromandel coast of India in Kanchipuram. This town area was very old and renovated and rebuilt by Dutch in 17th century, The magnificent Sandras Fort was built by Dutch. At present this place is home to Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research. 

Based on the scriptures, Amarar Kalki wrote Sivagamiyin sabatham which displays the lives of Pallavas, their under construction work of shore temple and battle with Chalukyas.

New India vs Old Europe

I always thought India is equivalent to Europe. Many will agree with me. There are lot of country in world which are smaller than Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and compared to many other states in India. These Indian states are different in their culture but have similarities, speak different languages but somewhat similar by scripts and pronunciations. As Europe is divided into countries, India was also divided by different countries. As in Europe there are Princes, Here also there are old Palaces and lost Princes. It is New India and Old Europe. There are many similarities between Europe and India. But always Winners write Histories. Since Europeans ruled us for 2 centuries we still look up to them in all means. World is changing in all means. World is becoming a global village. How do we look at learning something of no use and no value in the market. That is how our identities are going. Our identities are losing values. Our language, our science, our Ayurveda, our Siddha, our culture.

Unless we use them we are going to lose them and its value goes down. When we understand this that our identity has value then we will protect it. Then we will join hands to preserve it. Our ancestors have build the set of practices looking at the past, how few clans vanished over time. Our culture are built to protect the root of this civilization. And there are very handful of people protecting it and rest of them do not have this education and play no part in the protection. Learning some ancient art, knowing few regional history atleast about medieval age, visiting some heritage places, using Ayurveda & Sidhha will make us connected to the past. Though a simple Indian life can make you feel like a Prince of the land. India is equivalent to Europe.