Today’s Leftist Historians tend to move away from the discussions of Origins and chronology of Archaeological artifacts(The Penguin History of Early India, RT,2002). Reason for distancing from such debates is, the more the discussions go deeper, the more they are forced to refute their own models. Fr. Br., had to eat an unceremonious humble pie, in the latest discussions on Ind-Arch group. He had to concede that he was wrong in rejecting the well established fact that South India did have presence of horse prior to 1500 bce. It has been established as long as ago as 1992 that South India had equid remains dating prior to 1500 bce (K.R. Alur’s paper “Aryan Invasion of India, Indo-Gangetic Valley Cultures” (in B.U. Nayak and N.C. Ghosh,eds., _New Trends in Indian Art and Archaeology: S.R. Rao’s 70th Birthday Felicitation Volume_, New Delhi, Aditya Prakashan, 1992, vol. 2, pp. 561-62)). Further, the rock art at Karikkiyur (Tamil Nadu),the largest rock art site in South India is dated to prior to 1500 bce, depicts horse riders. In fact, the inner limit is 2000 bce for this rock art center. This proves that the tamed horse was quite prevalent in South India in pre 1500 bce times. The law makers of India have granted exemption to South Indian merchants from the prohibition on horse trading. This goes on to prove that the horse population was quite heavy in South India and hence, the law makers were under pressure to grant such an exemption. In fact, the very word Aswa comes from the Sea, Aswat, the expanse. Saindhava , another name for horse, is directly connected to sea (sindhu)This again shows that horses owe their origin to south India. The above archaeological and liturgical/linguistic proof goes onto support my hypothesis that Mitannis have learned horse sciences from South India. It was already an established fact that Mitannis were on trading terms with Ceylone and hence, this again proves that they have connections with South India also. This will make the models of AIT (that ancient Indians were pushed to South India from sindhu area by incoming Aryans) tupsy turvy, in the sense, it is South Indians who moved to North India. Kishore patnaik

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