Vishnu, ppularly was a deified hero, a great kshatriya teacher, reincarnated from time to time to instruct Aryan race and led them to victory. - Havell in Aryan Rule in India (page 32)
The Dravidians were firmly settled in different parts of Northern and Southern India more than 4000 years ago, when fair-complexioned aryans gradually advanced from North West across the Hindu Kush mountains, and entered India through Afghanisthan. The Dravidians natrully resisted the newcomers with all their might and fierce and protected struggle between the two nationalities, but a conflict between two types of civilisations.
The Dravidians had to fight for their very existance and there are several passages in the Rig Veda which indicate their severity of the struggle. - Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, M.A. PhD, in "Outline of Ancient History and Civilisation" (Page 21 and 22).
The Ramayana and Mahabharata deal with the days of Indo-Aryans and their conquests and civil wars.
I do not think i ever attached very much importance to these stories as factually true and even crticised the magical and supernatural element in them. But they were imaginatively true to me just as were stories from the ARABIAN NIGHTS or the PANCHATANTRA. - Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru in "Discovery of India" (Page 75 & 76)
The coming of the Aryans into India raised new problems - racial and political. The conquered race, the Dravidians had a long background of civilization behind them, but there is a little doubt that the Aryans considered themselves vastly superior to them and a wide gulf seperated the two. - Jwaharlal Nehru in 'Discovery of India' (Page 62).
The Ramayana story is one of Aryan expansion to the South. - "Discovery of India" (Page 82).
On the contrary, the Aryans had to learn the languages peculiar to those races and to adopt a portion atleast of their civilization - "Collected work of Sir R. G. Bhadarkar" (Vol III at page 10)
The Followers and worshippers of Indra and other dieties were called the Devas and the opponents of the Indra worship were called Asuras, and these became the hateful terms to one party or other. - A.C. Dass, M.A., B.L. in "Rig Vedic India" at page 101.
The Ramayana distinguishes the Suras , who indulged themselves in liquors from Asuras, who abstained from them. - The Historians, History of world (Vol II Page 521).
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