Rabble Rousing Random Ramblings: Rama was a 'Madrasi'!

March 12, 2007

Rama was a 'Madrasi'!

A little more than a month ago, I wondered about why the Ramayana and Mahabharata had dark skinned heroes. Sandeep wrote a lovely follow-up post where he said colour was not important in ancient Indian thought.

I read an interesting news item today in 'The Hindu' where a historian, Suvira Jaiswal, was quoted as saying that Rama seemed to be a Dravidian creation and over a period of time, the concept/persona travelled up towards northern India and became well established there.

This is very interesting, because one of my conjectures was that it was possible that the authors of the two epics based their characters on some super archers in south India.

Labels: epics, hindu, mahabharatha, mythology, ramayana

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Jagadish, Suvira and her cohorts like Thapar have been working over time to show Rama cult started in the south and it started just few centuries ago (Thapar had a similar article in Hindu some time ago). They are all reworking history in relation to Babari Masjid. If Rama is from south, UP Ayodhya is not Rama's Ayodhya and the Hindu brutes have no case. Most of this stuff selective quotes intended to be political then anything else.

By Chandra (Mar 13, 2007, 10:51:00 PM)

Possibly so, Chandra. I found it interesting that barely a month or so after my first post, there was someone saying something similar!

By Jagadish (Mar 15, 2007, 5:22:00 PM)

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