The myth of the aryan invasion cracked wide open in 1995. The writings in the Vedas and the anthropological evidence show the Vedic Aryans were the indigenous Indians, the same multi-racial society that developed the Harappan and Mahenjadaro cultures. It is a culture at least 5,000 years old. The "Aryan/Dravidian" split is a baseless historian's contrivance. The historic new book, Cradle of Civilization, jointly authored by George Feuerstein, David Frawley and Subash Kak, just released at the end of this year, definitively thrashes the old idea that the Vedas were written by invading nomads from central Asia. A few mainstream American text books are finally admitting the invasion theory may be wrong.
Aryan Invasion Theory has been proved to be a myth and as a wrong theory a long time back. But let me explain in detail the actual history and dirty politics behind this theory. Note that this theory was used as a basis by Hitler to advocate his theory of the supremacy of the Aryan race and to mindlessly kill whom he claimed to be non-aryans!
Definition Let us first see what the Aryan Invasion Theory says.
It calls the race which belonged to the vedic age as Aryans. It says that at around 1500 BC Aryans, (which it says was a tribe from the Europe) invaded north India plundering and pushing down the local Dravidians (who it says were the original natives of India) who lived there to down South India. In a nutshell, it says the North Indians of today belong to an Aryan
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by Anurag Shrivastava on Sep 22, 2007 11:09 AM Permalink
True - North Indians especially Punjabis have Aryan or white blood because ventral Asian invaders used to kill the males and made women pregnant. All Indians belong to one race. You have fair skinned people in west coast who have Arab blood in them.
First let us see how did they arrive at these dates! It was well known in India in the british period that Vedas pre-dated Christ, since they definitely pre-dated Buddha who lived some 400 years before Christ. Some scholars then said that as per Bible the world was created in 4000 BC, and Noah%u2019s flood took place in 2500 BC. So they decided that Aryan Invasion of India must have taken place only after this flood and before Buddha, and hence would be around 1500 BC! This is the funniest investigation I have ever heard about. I doubt if anybody can dare to call this a scientific investigation! This is what some call as, %u2018adjusting history%u2019 to be %u2018compliant%u2019 with %u2018religious texts%u2019
Now let us see some of the obvious proofs that have thrown this theory into dustbin.
Aryan is not a race! First of all Aryan is not a race. No where in the vedas and other ancient Indian text is the terms Aryan used to refer to a race!! Aryan in Sanskrit means %u201CGentleman%u201D. It is used in Sanskrit like how in English we use the term %u201CMr%u201D, that%u2019 s all about it!
Even Max Muller who initially termed vedas as %u201Cchildish%u201D (only to be later criticized by other scholars as a person who doesnt know even basic sanskrit!), later tried to correct himself in many occassions about the Aryan race! He said: %u201CI have declared again and again that if I say Aryas, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair, nor skull; I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language%u2026to me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan
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by rashmi sahu on Sep 22, 2007 10:19 AM Permalink
No mention of Europe! There is no mention of any location outside the mainland of India in any of the vedic texts! If aryans came from Europe, then why havent the so called aryans mentioned any of the european locations in any of the vedic or related texts? The farthest location away from India towards the west mentioned in the vedas is Kadhahar of present day Afghanistan, which was called Gandhar in the vedic texts and was said to be the kingdom of Shakuni.
Why haven%u2019t any of the texts mentioned about their European locations? Why is there no vedic text which talks about migration from Europe?
No European Rivers! None of the vedic texts talk about rivers outside India! Everybody knows that rivers were the major sources of water for all ancient civilizations and so all ancient civilizations were centered around the world%u2019s major rivers. Why is there no mention of any European river or a river outside India anywhere in the vedic texts? Wouldn%u2019t a race mention something or the other about its native place in at least one of its texts?
Saraswati River This is a death blow to the Aryan Invasion theory. According to the Aryan Invasion theory the aryans who invaded India in around 1500 BC settled on the banks of Indus or Sindhu river in North India.
The vedic texts talk about Ganga Yamuna Saraswati as the trio river , the three great rivers of their age. Ganga and Yamuna rivers exist even today in North India and till sometime back Saraswati was thought to be a mytho
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by rashmi sahu on Sep 22, 2007 10:20 AM Permalink
But vedas talk about Saraswati as a mighty river that flowed in the north India during the vedic ages!
There is also the mention of the Ganga Yamuna Saraswati merging at a place called Prayag , which was also called the Triveni Sangam. It is said that the Saraswati that merged here with the other two rivers was a subterranean channel of the main river of Saraswati.
The Mahabhartha talks about Saraswati river saying that it dried up in a desert! So it has to be noted here that Mahabhartha can be dated back to the drying up of the Saraswati river! Recent satellite images and geological excavations have proved the existence of a ancient river in North India, with exactly the same features of river Saraswati described in the vedas and Mahabharatha! Today Saraswati is a dried up river today. Before Saraswati dried up, the present Rajasthan was a lush green area! The drying up of Saraswati created the Thar desert in Rajasthan. Even the current dry beds of Sindh and Baluchistan (currently in Pakistan) were lush green fertile lands before the Saraswati river dried up! Why did the Saraswati river dry up? The plate tectonics of the Indian sub continental plate and the himalayan sources of this river are thought to be the main reason for that. Sutlej and Yamuna were the main sources of the Saraswati river. As the Indian plate moved up towards the main Eurasian plate, the course of Yamuna got altered in the Himalayas moving more water of Yamuna towards the Ganga river and that of
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by rashmi sahu on Sep 22, 2007 10:21 AM Permalink
As the Indian plate moved up towards the main Eurasian plate, the course of Yamuna got altered in the Himalayas moving more water of Yamuna towards the Ganga river and that of Sutlej got altered to join Indus! This caused a major loss in terms of its water source for the river Saraswati and is thought to have been the cause for its drying up. Now what does Saraswati river have to say about the Aryan Invastion theory of 1500 BC? Well, the geological excavations give a date of about 4000 BC for the drying up of Saraswati river !
Conclusion In a nutshell, the ancient vedic people were settled in India much before 4000 BC and have nothing to do with the myth of 1500 BC invasion theory! There is no separate aryan or dravidian race. There is one single ancient Indian vedic race with roots IN INDIA. Indus valley civilization is NOT the most ancient Indian civilization. It was probably only a remnant civilization of an ancient Civilization that existed till the end of the Mahabaratha war. The most ancient Indian civilization was therefore the Saraswati valley civilization (or a Ganga-Yamuna-Saraswati civilization) of the vedic age.
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by Albert on Sep 24, 2007 12:35 PM Permalink
UNFORTUNATLY, the vedas and brhmin version of history altered to suit brahmin superiority That why brahmins will hail you and rest of 90% of people don't accept it The history written by brahmins have no mention of the vast majority of people who built this nation. But history of your's glorify brahmins and they are never been part of indian mainstrem
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by V Chakravarthy on Sep 22, 2007 10:58 AM Permalink
I really congratulate you for a very comprehensive and authentic passage of yours. May be all the nonsense of aryans, rakshasha putras that is going on in the site will be toned down, reading your passage.
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by k kkk on Sep 24, 2007 04:22 PM Permalink
rashmi, The india which u see now was formed by britishers.before 1947 there was no country named india. Indus cilisation was there .
can u give the name of the king who ruled India before 1947?????
u can not coz
this land was ruled by number of kings. even AShoka Ruled India
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by rashmi sahu on Sep 23, 2007 08:48 AM Permalink
this is not my work, i have pasted this information for all indians who always belive in fighting for no rhyme or reason at the drop of the hat.Know your country and its past. Thats all i say
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by senthil on Sep 23, 2007 09:32 AM Permalink
Rashmi, You forgot to copy one more information. If we infer from vedas and epics that they are so old more than 3500 years. What would you infer from Harapa and Mohanjathoro archeological excavation?. These excavation conclusiely points out that arround 3500 years ago ancient indians (There are no aryans/ dravidians) were expressing thier thoughts through hyroglypics (picture writting) with out having any language. Then how would you authenticate Vedas and Epics?
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by Marco Polo on Sep 23, 2007 10:45 AM Permalink
Whatever differences you point out,man originated in the depth of Africa and made their way to different parts of the World.So all the areas in the world are ivaded by those people who started the journey from Africa.
