It is supposed to be derived from the Dravidian word for.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

Indo-Aryan 72\%, Dravidian 25\%, Mongoloid and other 3\% (2000).    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

IndiaIndo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% (2000).    From Wordnik.com.  [Ethnic groups] Reference

Ethnic groups: Indo-Aryan 72\%, Dravidian 25\%, Mongoloid and other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference

The section names of the Dewars are almost all of Dravidian origin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

Ethnic divisions: Indo-Aryan 72\%, Dravidian 25\%, Mongoloid and other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 1995 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Dravidian temples that one should plan to have more time to devote to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in the Far East] Reference

Similar Dravidian castes of Agarias are to be found in Mirzapur and Bengal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

Some authorities maintain they were of Dravidian origin, akin to the Basques -- '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon of Skulls]

Further to the south, among the Dravidian races, the vigesimal element is also found.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

The government of the day is always led by one or the other of the Dravidian factins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Affirmative action] Reference

There, mixing with the indigenous Lemurian population, they formed the Dravidian race.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria] Reference

The Dravidian race 'was eaten' up now only their languages survive in bits and pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why are South Indians so smart?] Reference

From the waist up, I would have passed for a Dravidian on his annual holiday in Bermuda.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Rude Awakening]

This may either be a Dravidian usage or have been adopted by imitation from the Muhammadans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

Southern India the Dravidian people seem to have borrowed the Egyptian idea of the seven Hathors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference

The Dravidian tribes have not penetrated so far west as Central India and Gujarat in appreciable numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

In front of a stall four Dravidian women were pounding turmeric with heavy stakes in a large wooden mortar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burmese Days] Reference

The Bhils have lost their own language, so that it cannot be ascertained whether it was Kolarian or Dravidian.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

They cannot therefore on the evidence of language be classified as a Munda or Kolarian or as a Dravidian tribe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

In southern India the Dravida Munnetra Karagam demanded the estab - lishment of an independent Dravidian state.    From Wordnik.com.  [NATIONALISM] Reference

The origin of the caste is very obscure, but it would appear that they must be an offshoot of one of the Dravidian tribes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

Peoples of Arab extraction intermixed with people of Dravidian and Persian stock are all lumped together under the name of Baluch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

I have great dislike for a sleeping-car, so it can be imagined that the visit to the Dravidian temples was made under difficulties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in the Far East] Reference

According to Barbosa (67. 161), a writer of the early part of the sixteenth century, the Nairs, a Dravidian people of the Malabar coast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference