Give detail about Dravidian System? (In 7 – 8 lines)
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Dravidians had an advanced city culture more ancient than the Aryans, who, as Indian legends tell and some dispute, invaded India from central Asia in several waves around 1500 BCE. The Rig Veda, an ancient Hindu scripture, records the destruction of Harappa, then called Hariyopiyah (5.27.5). In particular, the Aryan invaders targeted for extinction the Dasyus tribe, who were dark-skinned—a Dravidian feature. Yet another view indicates that the Harappa culture was already disintegrating when the Aryans arrived, perhaps due to natural causes such as a flood.
Among the jungle tribes in the Indus Valley were the Bhils, Kols, Santals, Kukis, Todas, and Oraos, some of which were Dravidians. One theory is that the Dravidians escaped into the hills after the first Aryan invasion, making the hills the safe ground for the Dravidians. The Aryans, being familiar with farming and cattle breeding, had the incentive to clear the lowlands in cooperation with the Dravidians. Thus, savannas and fens were transformed into rice fields.
Dravidians are speakers of any of the Dravidian languages. There are around 245 million native speakers of Dravidian languages.[2] Dravidian speakers form the majority of the population of South India, and are natively found in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan,[3] the Maldives, and Sri Lanka