THE COLLAPSE OF ARYAN INVASION THEORY

After Europeans arrived in India, they discovered that Sanskrit was very similar to European languages, Russian etc. With time, they came up with Aryan Invasion theory.

The theory says a group of nomads invaded India and displaced the existing population down south or subjugated them. Its these nomadic Aryans who wrote Vedas, Puranas and other early Hindu texts. The date of the oldest text Rig Veda was decided as 1500BC.

In 1920s, archaeologists discovered the Indus valley civilization cities. It was instantly announced that these cities were destroyed by invading Aryans. The skulls found on the site were cited as the proof of massacre of native Indians by the invading Aryans

(it was later found untrue, conclusively). By the scientific dating methods, it was figured out that Indus valley civilization cities dwindled and extinguished between 2200BC-1900BC.

In 1990s, the geological and hydro-logical data based on satellite imaging, etc proved that Saraswati dried up exactly the same time when Indus valley civilization went down(2200BC-1900BC). Also, most of the sites of the civilization were based on the bank of Saraswati.

The most important river mentioned in Vedas was Saraswati. Vedas described Sapt-Sindhu, a group of rivers comprising Ganga, Yamuna, Saraswati, Sutlej, Vyas, Ravi and Sindhu. Yamuna and Sutlej were described as tributaries of Saraswati.

The later texts detailed the drying up of the river. Before the emergence of scientific evidence of dried up Saraswati river, the "Macaulayian Historians" declared this river so vividly described in the Vedas and other ancient texts as "mythical".

Once satellite evidence firmly proved the existence of this mighty river and presence of so called Indus valley civilization settlements in its banks, the "Macaulayian historians" are coming up with ridiculous arguments to defend the Aryan theory.

Since 2000 onwards, a series of studies done by geneticists proved that there has been no major population migration in India since many tens of thousands of years. Most of the studies put this timeline as last 50,000 years.

One such detailed study was done by Harvard University and CCMB in 2009 and the results were presented in the most prestigious journal of science, the "Nature" journal.

All the major studies one in this area are unanimous that no major population migration happened in last many tens of thousands of year. In both Sanskrit and Tamil ancient texts, there is no mention of any large scale invasion/migration into India by a group of Aryans.

British found this theory very useful for their political needs in India and propagated it for the purpose of divide and rule. Aryan invasion theory was taught in school and college text-books and hence most of the current day Indians continue to believe in it, unaware that this theory has lost ground since last sometime.

Among the many seriously damaging implications of this flawed theory, these are the few - a) The entire "ancient history" of India pre-1500BC was termed as "myth" b) The Aryan-Dravidian divide was used to create separate identities and incite one segment of Indian against other.

Source : Breaking India

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THE COLLAPSE OF ARYAN INVASION THEORY

1. After Europeans arrived in India, they discovered that Sanskrit was very similar to European languages, Russian etc. With time, they came up with Aryan Invasion theory.

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