| Awaken Bharata |
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| Books By David Frawley |
| THE NEW MASKS OF COLONIALISM | |
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river, lauded in the Vedas as the home of Vedic culture and
delineated in great detail, dried up after a series of geological
changes around 1900 BCE, marking the terminal point of the Harappan
culture. This relates Vedic culture to the earliest civilizations in
India well before the so-called Aryan invasion of 1500 BCE. After
more than a century of searching there has proved to be no real
evidence for any Aryan invasion of India, whether movements of
people, skeletal remains, destroyed cities, pottery types, burial
customs, or anything of the kind.
Yet rather than welcoming this new information, and using it to examine traditional Hindu historical accounts in a more equitable manner, many academicians are refusing to draw any conclusions from it. Or they are trying to subvert it by pretending that since there is no evidence of an Aryan invasion that it must have occurred in a way that left no traces, that no evidence for it is required because it is proved on another level! Some would use linguistic speculation alone, without evidence or contrary to the evidence, to promote this view. But modern linguistic speculation cannot be substitute for or override firmer archeological and literary data. This is not to suggest that academicians are operating out of intentional distortion, though Marxist historians are well known to do this. They may be so conditioned by a Eurocentric mindset, by an educational agenda to promote Western culture and, perhaps, by a sincere belief that Western culture is the best thing for all countries that it is hard for them to accept any real greatness to the civilization of India. |
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