varna and jati

[Swaminathan Madhuresan]

 >Infact, people from all four categories (Keralite, Telugu, Kannada,
 >MarAti) that I've met, stoutly deny that their language is derived from
 >Tamizh, and insist that it's Samskrutam which is the mother language. Even
 >if they're actually wrong, it still reflects their respect and affinity
 >towards Samskrutam, which could never have been achieved by coersion.

  Contradicts the genetic relationships between languages as
  taught in basic Linguistics courses. Is this popular view another variant
  of what we call here, Indic paradigms of knowledge and scholarship?


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