THE DRAVIDIAN CONNECT
In , retired bureaucrat R. Balakrishnan poses the ‘Indus riddle’: a profusion of archaeological remains from the Harappan civilisation, but without known literature that evokes it. And the ‘Tamil riddle’: a rich body of classical literature that mentions cities, kings, clans and a distant past, but with scant archaeological associations. The two-birds-with-one-stone solution favoured in this book is the ‘Dravidian Hypothesis’: which claims
