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o Since the identification of Christianity and the
Middle Eastern cultures, the Hindu religion and Indian
civilization are considered as a sidelight to the
development of religion and civilization in the west: A
deliberate and dishonest undermining of the antiquity and
the greatness of the ancient Indian culture.

o It allows the science of India to be given a Greek
basis, as any Vedic basis was largely disqualified by the
primitive nature of the Vedic culture: In fact the
opposite is true.

o If the theory of Aryan invasion and its proposed
period were true, this discredited not only the Vedas but
the genealogies of the Puranas, and all the kings
mentioned in these scriptures including Lord Krishna,
Rama, Buddha etc. would become as fictional characters
with no historical basis: Which simply means disowning
and discarding the very basis and raison de'etre of the
Hindu civilization.

o The Mahabharat, instead of being a civil war of global
proportion in which all the main kings of India
participated as is described in the epic, would be
dismissed as a local skirmish among petty princes that
was later exaggerated by poets.

o In other words, the Aryan Invasion Theory invalidates
and discredits the most Hindu traditions and almost all
its vast and rich literary and civilizational heritage.
It turns its scriptures and sages into fantasies and
exaggerations.

o On the basis of this theory, the propaganda by the
Macaulayists was made that there was nothing great in the
Hindu culture and their ancestors and sages. And most
Hindus fell for this devious plan. It made Hindus feel
ashamed of their culture - that its basis was neither
historical nor scientific, the Vedas were the work of
nomadic shepherds and not the divine revelations or
eternal truth perceived by the rishis during their
spiritual journey, and hence there is nothing to feel
proud about India's past, nothing to be proud of being
Hindu.

In short such a view and this concocted Aryan Invasion
theory by a few European historians in order to prove the
supremacy of Christianity and Western civilization,
served (and still serving) the purpose: 'divide and
conquer the Hindus'.

Swami Vivekananda on Aryan Invasion Theory

"Our archaeologists' dreams of India being full of dark-
eyed aborigines, and the bright Aryans came from - the
Lord knows where. According to some, they came from
Central Tibet; others will have it that they came from
Central Asia. There are patriotic Englishmen who think
that the Aryans were all red haired. Others, according to
their idea, think that they were all black-haired. If the
writer happens to be a black-haired man, the Aryans were
all black-haired. Of late, there was an attempt made to
prove that the Aryans lived on Swiss lake. I should not
be sorry if they had been all drowned there, theory and
all. Some say now that they lived at the North Pole. Lord
bless the Aryans and their habitations! As for as the
truth of these theories, there is notone word in our
scriptures, not one, to prove that the Aryans came from
anywhere outside of India, and in ancient India was
included Afghanistan. There it ends..."

"And the theory that the Shudra caste were all non-Aryans
and they were a multitude, is equally illogical and
irrational. It could not have been possible in those days
that a few Aryans settled and lived there with a hundred
thousand slaves at their command. The slaves would have
eaten them up, made chutney of them in five minutes. The
only explanation is to be found in the Mahabharat, which
says that in the beginning of the Satya Yoga there was
only one caste, the Brahmins, and then by differences of
occupations they went on dividing themselves into
different castes, and that is the only true and rational
explanation that has been given. And in the coming Satya
Yuga all other castes will have to go back to the same
condition." (The Complete Work of Swami Vivekananda,
Vol.III Page 293.)

So, What are the facts? Now, based on what has been
presented above, following facts about an ancient and
glorious period of India clearly emerge:

1. The Aryan Invasion and Racial theories, and Aryan-
Dravidian conflicts are a 19th century fabrication by
some European scholar. They are being exploited even now
for political reasons.

2. The hymns of Rigveda had been composed and completed
by 3700BC, this can be scientifically proved.

3. The language of the Indus script is related to
Sanskrit, the language of Vedas.

4. The Indus valley civilization should be aptly called
as Saraswati Vedic civilization, as the new evidences and
right interpretation of the archaeological findings
indicate.

5. There is now strong evidence that the movement of the
ancient Aryan people was from east to west, and this is
how the European languages have strong association and
origin in the Vedic Sanskrit language.

6. The ending of Indus Valley and the Saraswati
civilization was due to the constant floods and drought
in the Indus area and the drying up of the Saraswati
river. This had caused a massive emigration of the
habitants to safer and interior areas of the Indian
subcontinent and even towards the west.

7. There was no destruction of the civilization in the
Indus valley due to any invasion of any barbaric hordes.

8. The Vedic literature has no mention of any invasion or
destruction of a civilization.

9. There is no evidence in any of the literature which
indicate any Aryan-Dravidian or North-South divide, they
were never culturally hostile to each other.

10. The population living in the Indus valley and
surrounding the dried up Saraswati river practiced the
Vedic culture and religion.

References

Most of the material presented above has been taken from
the following books.

1. The Aryan Invasion Theory and Indian Nationalism
(1993) By Shrikant G. Talageri (Voice of India)

2. The Astronomical Code of India (1992) By Subhash Kak

3. Vedic Aryans and the Origins of Civilization (1995) By
N.S. Rajaram and David Frawley (World Heritage Press)

4. Aryan Invasion of India: The Myth and the Truth By
N.S. Rajaram (Voice of India Publication)

5. Indigenous Indians: Agastya to Ambedkar (1993) By
Koenraad Elst

6. New Light on The Aryan Problem: Manthan Oct. 1994
(Journal of Deendayal Research Institute)

7. Dawn and Development of the Indus Civilization (1991)
By S.R. Rao (Aditya Prakashan)

Dinesh Agrawal
2500 Buchenhorst Road, State College, PA 16801 USA

https://hindunet.org/hindu_history/ancient/aryan/aryan_agrawal.html

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