Did IVC have low-intensity wars?

[Vanbakkam Vijayaraghavan]

On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 18:13:12 +0000, N. Ganesan <naga_ganesan at HOTMAIL.COM>
wrote:


>hitherto possible. Earlier in sangam times when Tamils were
>transforming from an oral society towards literacy, the Brahmins and
>the Jainas were moving in, but the indigenous priests were the
>potters, washerfolk, conch shell cutters, and so on and their
>infuence is highly visible. The discontinuity from sangam to Pallavan
>era is accomplished by a radical shift of sponsorship from the native,
>often indigent, priests to the Brahmins.


Terms like "indegenous priests", "Brahmins and the Jainas were moving
in", "native" , "sponsorship" seem to be more ideological constructs. Is
there any historical evidence to use these words? For example how do you
prove that potter-priests were any more native than say Brahmins?