[quote]Blacksnake wrote:
This is new to me…PM me some links to evidence to support this claim please…
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I know you asked me to pm you the links and info, but Im going to write everything here so everyone can read… Im sick of this misinformation… even years after the Aryan Invasion Theory was disproved (by its very inventors) its still talked about today!.. cheers!
In the early 20th century, when the colonial archeologists interest was beggining to peak about Indian history and culture, and the Indus-Saraswati ruins were being un-earthed, the utter myth known as the ‘Aryan invasion theory’ came into being. It was created as such - when European scholars were studying the Vedas, at a time when the bigoted view of genetic or religious superiority of the white race over all others was still gospel, scholars, not particularly well versed in the culture or language of India, mis-interpreted the word ‘Aryas’ which literally means “noble” or “educated” as an entire ethnic group, rather than a description of a class within society, which is what it meant.
From this mistake, a picture which suited the idea of European superiority began to emerge, where a fair-skinned (perhaps blue eyed and blonde haired? lol) race of people had decended from the plains of central asia, and civilised the native barbarian hunter-gathering people by conquering them, bringing the ‘European’ language of Sanskrit into India, and writing the Vedas. To their credit, it was the very inventors of this theory whom eventually disproved it, however, the bandwagon of bad idea had begun to roll, and those who clang to it began to try to adapt it in the wake of the discovery that there was an ancient civilisation pre-dating the supposed invasion by millennia. The theory now became rather more embarrassing - an ancient civiliation had existed, and was destroyed by white barbarians. All this from a bad European translation of an archaic Sanskrit word for noble.
Almost every scholar over the past 25 years now formally accepts as given fact that the Aryan invasion theory was utter myth, and that the translation of Aryas had been one of the worst mistakes in archeological history, yet some people still cling to this idea when the reality - as given by the Vedas - is that the people of India, are simply the people of India, and race, a mis-informed 19th century concept, does not exist. Furthermore, this undermines something that all desis should be proud of - India is the oldest, and only surviving unbroken civilisation dating back to the dawn of human society that exists in the world today.
Conservative estimates (some believe that India is far older than the others, and they are porbably right) say that Mesepotamia, Egypt and India are the three oldest civilisations on the planet and arose around the late fourth millenium BC, followed by China around the second millenium BC, but wheras only ruins exist of the others, the same civilisation that pioneered philosophy and science for the human race at least 6000 years ago still exists in India today, where the Amrit tanks of the Indus-Saraswati civilisation still carry the same importance in Mandirs and Gurdwaras today, and hyms composed back then are still sung.
This civilisation wasnt founded through racial war or any such crap, there is no such thing as a Dravidian or an Aryan, everyone is Indian, with skin colour and features variying simply due to geography, as with everywhere on the planet. Dravidian only stands for a family of Indian languages, and Aryas are only Sanskriti nobles.
In closing, it is important to examine the social and political implications of the Aryan invasion idea:
First, it served to divide India into a northern Aryan and southern Dravidian culture which were made hostile to each other. This kept the Hindus divided and is still a source of social tension.
Second, it gave the British an excuse in their conquest of India. They could claim to be doing only what the Aryan ancestors of the Hindus had previously done millennia ago.
Third, it served to make Vedic culture later than and possibly derived from Middle Eastern cultures. With the proximity and relationship of the latter with the Bible and Christianity, this kept the Hindu religion as a sidelight to the development of religion and civilization to the West.
Fourth, it allowed the sciences of India to be given a Greek basis, as any Vedic basis was largely disqualified by the primitive nature of the Vedic culture.
This discredited not only the ‘Vedas’ but the genealogies of the ‘Puranas’ and their long list of the kings before the Buddha or Krishna were left without any historical basis.
The ‘Mahabharata’, instead of a civil war in which all the main kings of India participated as it is described, became a local skirmish among petty princes that was later exaggerated by poets. In short, it discredited the most of the Hindu tradition and almost all its ancient literature. It turned its scriptures and sages into fantacies and exaggerations.
This served a social, political and economical purpose of domination, proving the superiority of Western culture and religion. It made the Hindus feel that their culture was not the great thing that their sages and ancestors had said it was.
It made Hindus feel ashamed of their culture that its basis was neither historical nor scientific. It made them feel that the main line of civilization was developed first in the Middle East and then in Europe and that the culture of India was peripheral and secondary to the real development of world culture.
Such a view is not good scholarship or archeology but merely cultural imperialism. The Western Vedic scholars did in the intellectual spehere what the British army did in the political realm discredit, divide and conquer the Hindus.
In short, the compelling reasons for the Aryan invasion theory were neither literary nor archeological but political and religious that is to say, not scholarship but prejudice. Such prejudice may not have been intentional but deep-seated political and religious views easily cloud and blur our thinking.
http://www.gosai.com/chaitanya/saranagati/html/vedic-upanisads/aryan-invasion.html
http://www.umassd.edu/indic/press/origin_pr.cfm
http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_history/ancient/aryan/aryan_frawley.html
Fucking Hitler and his Nordic Master Race bullshit, he even took our ancient Hindu Swastika and made into some white supremacy symbol and now it has been banned. Indians are very very very angry about it, its an ancient Hindu symbol that is around 8000 years old. Its like someone taking the symbol of the cross and demonizing it, resulting in all Christians bieng told that it is illegal to display the sign of the cross in any shape or form.
