Indians Are Immigrants Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

India has seen four major immigrations.
It took about sixty thousand years age
When the first world migration from Africa
Took towards the South Asia and Australia
And towards the Central Asia as well.

The second one took nine thousand years ago
When the people moved from the Iran belt
Towards North West India and mixed
With the first Indians, the Harappan,
Who later moved to the South India region
And mixed with the locals to produce
The ancestry of the Dravidian race.

The third one was before 2000BC
When the people from the China heartland
Spread to South East Asia and East India.
They retain their Mongolian features.

The fourth one was before 1000 BC
When the Indus Valley Civilization
Collapsed with the influx of the pastoralists
From the Central Asia, to be called Aryans,
Who spoke Sanskrit and brought with them Vedas.

No major immigration since 100AD,
The indigenous populations were crystallized
As castes and bred only through the castes.
We are all Indians, some from the stalks
Of Ethiopia, some of the Middle East,
And some from the stalks of the Central Asia.
Aren't we all immigrants in a way?
Yes, as long as lasts no discrimination.
23.01.2019