"It is also necessary for the people of India today, especially in North India, to know why it is that North India has lagged behind South India in development," Chandrasekhar said while talking ANI.
The Hindu published an article on 5th October 2023, with a very combative headline – “Retribution for the South, accolade for the North”. I think you got the gist just by looking at the headline
One of the narratives around the South-North divide is that the South states contribute more money to the central government and are therefore much more superior than the Northern states.
Until the millennium year 2000, there had been many voices doubting or plainly rejecting the Aryan Invasion Theory, and contributing many little arguments from linguistics or archaeology, all indirect evidence, but a clear alternative was lacking.