Author: Desai, A.
Title: The Original Indians : An Enquiry
Description: Delhi, Media House, 2001. orig.wrappers. 22x14cm, 62pp.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ The identity of the original Indians has been a matter of wide research and unending discussions down the decades. However, the issue remains as unsettled and controversial as it was when it started. Were the Aryans, the Dravidians, or someone else the original inhabitants of this subcontinent?...The pre-history and the history of the Aryans are like riddles, stories, myths and facts - all submerged in the ocean...Dr. Desai says that Harappan civilisation was the handiwork of the Dravidians. Even before the arrival of the Indo-Aryans, the Harappan civilisation authored by Mediterranean people (later called Dravidians) existed. The Indo-Aryans came only towards the end of Harappan civilization..." - from rear cover.

Keywords: Dravidian Ethnogenesis, Indian Ethnology, Ancient India, South Asia, Aryan Aryans, Dravidians, Historical, Ethnography, Ethnic History