Dravidian Reconquest

I've been fairly comfortable just reading discussions on this forum for all the scenarios I could think of, but one scenario that I haven't found is a reconquest of the Indian subcontinent by the Dravidians similar to the Europeans in Iberia. I was inspired by the depiction of the early caste system initiated by the newly settled Aryans Gore Vidal's Creation in which race and culture was speculated as the inspiration for the caste system today, with Dravidians living in non-urban areas and in the lowest social positions with as little intermixing as possible, although it did occur. This sounds similar to modern day Bolivia or China under Mongolian or Manchurian rule, and Persia under the the Ilkhanate. So what if the Aryans are overthrown? Would we see the disappearance of the language and customs of the occupiers except for some small traces like in China and Persia?

When would be the best time for this to occur? My understanding of Indian history is very limited, but could this occur instead of the Mughal Empire?
 
We don't actually know enough about that period of history. The traditional narrative goes pretty much like what you said but I suspect that there was probably a lot more intermingling than that. We don't even know if it was an outright violent conquest or simply the progressive migration of Indo-European peoples into the confused vacancy left by the downfall of the Indus Valley civilisation.

In some ways at least, the Dravidians can't all have been that badly subjugated since much of Hinduism actually developed from a very strong overlay of what are presumably Dravidian religious concepts over the standard Indo-European mythos.
 
I wonder if using the thread title and premise in another way, if southern lords could push back early (or later?) muslim invaders/powers, and perhaps culturally even assimilate/expend a bit center to north, expending the range of dravidian languages a bit...

Or/And tamils or such take over modern Ceylan... Or a tamil or karnata etc adventurer take the Maldives..
 
I wonder if using the thread title and premise in another way, if southern lords could push back early (or later?) muslim invaders/powers, and perhaps culturally even assimilate/expend a bit center to north, expending the range of dravidian languages a bit...

Or/And tamils or such take over modern Ceylan... Or a tamil or karnata etc adventurer take the Maldives..

But the southern lords pushing back islamic invaders wouldn't make a difference. It wouldn't change the ethnic groups involved.
 
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