What DNA Says About Aryan Invasion Theory-1

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Shashir,

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Why is it that Sanskrit is classified as an Indo-European language (along with Latin and Greek) and Tamil is classified as a Dravidian language?
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Oh, I don't know... could it be because the Brits who invaded India were often Christians who badly wanted to 'civilize' our heathen ways with their one-stop-antidote-shop of a religion? And a separate identity was the quickest method they could think of? Could it be that Max Muller (Aryan languages) and Bishop Caldwell (Dravidian languages) had ulterior motives in inventing and bolstering the AIT, instead of a sincere wish to know why there were similarities between Sanskrit and the Latin and Greek languages and why there were features unique to Tamil, Kannada etc?

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Why does the Sanskrit word for caste varna mean "color" of a person?
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Shashir, to ask loaded questions will shut you off from other possibilities that could lead to the answers.
Varna does not mean "colour-of-a-person". It means 'colour', 'lustre'. And possibly a host of other things besides, depending on the context.

The answer to "what does Varna really mean?" - at least in the Rig Veda - is discussed at http://koenraadelst.voiceofdharma.com/bo...t/ch48.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In the Rg-Veda, the word varNa usually (17 out of 22 times) refers to the “lustre” (i.e. “one’s own typical light”, a meaning obviously related to “colour”) of specified gods: Usha, Agni, Soma, etc.69 As for the remaining cases, in 3:34:5 and 9:71:2 it indicates the lustrous colour of the sky at dawn. In 1:104:2 and 2:12:4, reference is only to quelling the varNa of the DAsas, - meaning “the Dasas’ luster” (in the first case, Ralph Griffith translates it as “the fury of the DAsa”).
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Also, as you probably already know the Dasas were Iranians (the Dahas tribe) and looked pretty much indistinguishable from the Indians living nearest to them.
(http://koenraadelst.voiceofdharma.com/ar...dence.html)