| How I Became A Hindu My Discover Of Vedic Dharma |
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| Books By David Frawley |
| Ancient India: Myth Of The Aryan Invasion | |
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The
Birla Science Conference
An important conference on ancient India occurred
at the Birla Science Center in Hyderabad in 1994. It featured many
leading archaeologists from India including S.R. Rao, S.P. Gupta,
Bhagwan Singh, and B.G. Siddharth. All of them emphasized the same
theme – that the old Aryan Invasion theory was wrong and went
against all existing evidence. A new historical model for ancient
India was necessary that showed a greater antiquity and centrality
for Vedic culture. It was encouraging to attend a conference with
such eminent archaeologists and scholars and to learn that my work
was not just a personal idiosyncrasy but part of a new movement that
already had many adherents. The forum was quite heartwarming after
the many years of isolated work that I had done. It was clear from
the conference that the theory of Aryan invasion of India was being
rejected on all fronts. I was not the only one, nor was my angle of
criticism unique. I had merely articulated what many Indians
were thinking now and what a number had thought in the past.
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