Horses in South India

Today's Leftist Historians tend to move away from the discussions of
Origins and chronology of Archaeological artifacts(The Penguin History
of Early India, RT,2002). Reason for distancing from such debates is,
the more the discussions go deeper, the more they are forced to refute
their own models.

Fr. Br., who earlier threatened to ( kill me and) examine my skull,
had to eat an unceremonious humble pie, with a foot in his mouth, in
the latest discussions on Ind-Arch group. He had to concede that he
had ulterior motives in rejecting the well established fact that South
India did have presence of horse prior to 1500 bce.

It won;t be long before the pseudo scholars like these will be
consigned to the dust bin of the History, left to examine their own
empty skulls.

Now Let us move to academics from skull-drudgery.

It has been established as long as ago as 1992 that South India had
equid remains dating prior to 1500 bce (K.R. Alur's paper "Aryan
Invasion of India, Indo-Gangetic Valley Cultures" (in B.U. Nayak and
N.C. Ghosh,eds., _New Trends in Indian Art and Archaeology: S.R. Rao's
70th Birthday Felicitation Volume_, New Delhi, Aditya Prakashan, 1992,
vol. 2, pp. 561-62)). Further, the rock art at Karikkiyur (Tamil
Nadu),the largest rock art site in South India is dated to prior to
1500 bce, depicts horse riders. In fact, the inner limit is 2000 bce
for this rock art center.

This proves that the tamed horse was quite prevalent in South India in
pre 1500 bce times.

The law makers of India have granted exemption to South Indian
merchants from the prohibition on horse trading. This goes on to prove
that the horse population was quite heavy in South India and hence,
the law makers were under pressure to grant such an exemption.

In fact, the very word Aswa comes from the Sea, Aswat, the expanse.
Saindhava , another name for horse, is directly connected to sea
(sindhu)This again shows that horses owe their origin to south India.

The above archaeological and liturgical/linguistic proof goes onto
support my hypothesis that Mitannis have learned horse sciences from
South India. It was already an established fact that Mitannis were on
trading terms with Ceylone and hence, this again proves that they have
connections with South India also.

This will make the models of AIT (that ancient Indians were pushed to
South India from sindhu area by incoming Aryans) tupsy turvy, in the
sense, it is South Indians who moved to North India.


Kishore patnaik