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A UNIQUE PHENOMENON |
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to Professor Chatterjee, various people of diverse origins - the
Austric Nishadas (Kols or Mundas), Dramidas or Dravidians, the
Aryans and Kiratas or Mongoloids - began to live together in the
well- demarcated geographical area of India three to four thousand
years ago. Then began a racial fusion and cultural and linguistic
miscegenation among them. In this work of welding together diverse
people into one, Brahmin thinkers (mainly of Aryan origin) and the
various Aryan language-speaking groups of military adventurers and
business classes, always on the move, made the greatest
contribution. A cultural ideology, including some social trends and
practices and religious notions, became established. This cultural
basis, with its Sanskrit name of Dharma, became, at least from the
end of the second millennium B.C. (circa 1500-1000 B.C.), an
irresistible force bringing together, under the guidance of the
Brahmin priestly class, various peoples of India.15
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