Dravidians of Bharat vs Branch Dravidians

[purushottama bilimoria]

Thanks Richard, some students of mine had done a class paper after the 
incident and related the "origins" of the name Davidian in this way. 
Isn;'t David in any case a Hebraic name? I never thought of relating 
Branch to anything more than, say, Branch as in Division of IRS or INS. 

Australians don't know how to pronounce Waco so we kept hearing "whacko", 
though I doubt if there are related. Cheers



On Sat, 27 May 1995, Richard W. Lariviere wrote:

> No, Purushottam, I think the name comes from the practice of some older
> elements in Texas society of a ritual activity involving drinking bourbon
> and *branch* water (cf. the career of Sam Rayburn).  I'm pretty sure there
> is no connection between that and any Hebrew traditions.  What I would like
> to know relates to the place names--is there any connection between Waco
> and the common English slang term "whacko".  I know that Baylor University
> is located there, but that may bring us back to "oxymoron."  What do you
> think?
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> >It's like asking, what is the conn ection between oxymoron and oxygen? It
> >is Branch Dravid anyway, which is from Hebrew and not of any Dravidic or
> >Indo-European stock as far as I can tell.
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> >On Fri, 26 May 1995, Bakul I. Dalal MD FRCPC FACP FASCP wrote:
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> >> What is the origin of the the Branch Dravidian group of Texas? Any relation
> >> to the Dravidian people of India?
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> >> Bakul I. Dalal MD FRCPC FCAP
> >> Division of Hematopathology, LSP1
> >> Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Center,
> >> 910 West 10th Avenue,
> >> Vancouver, BC, CANADA
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