The
Post-Colonial World |
The Aryan
Invasion Theory |
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Our view of human
history colors the perception of who we are in a fundamental way. [More....] |
The main idea used to interpret the ancient history of India.
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Basis Of
The Aryan Invasion Theory |
Aryan As
Race Or Language |
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We should first
note that the Aryan invasion theory was foreign to the history of India. [More....] |
The Aryan invasion theory is based upon the idea that Aryan
represents a particular group of people.
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The
Development Of The Aryan Invasion Idea |
Mechanics
Of The Aryan Invasion |
European
scholars following Max Muller in the nineteenth century decided that the Vedic people.
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The Aryan invasion theory was invented to solve the riddle of
languages.
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Harappan
Civilization |
Migration
Rather Than Invasion |
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After the
formulation of the Aryan invasion theory, archeology
did not stop.
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Coming to the present time, given the facts that there was no
destruction of Harappa and no evidence of any large scale migrations of people.
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The
Rediscovery Of The Sarasvati River |
The Vedic
Image Of The Ocean |
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The retreat of the
Aryan invasion theory has been accompanied by the rediscovery of the Sarasvati river of
Vedic fame. [More....] |
The Rig Veda itself contains nearly a hundred references to ocean
(Samudra), as well as dozens of references to ships, and to rivers flowing into the sea.
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Horses,
Chariots And Iron |
Destroyers
Of Cities |
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All the main
points of the Aryan invasion in its various incarnations have been disproved. [More....]
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The Rig Veda describes its Gods as "destroyers or conquerors of
cities.
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Vedic And
Indus Religions |
The
So-called Racial War In The Vedas |
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This was based on
the examination of a handful of seals and symbols found in the ruins. Hence the Harappan
religion was thought by them to be a kind of early Dravidian Shaivism. [More....]
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The Vedic people were thought to have been a fair-skinned race like
the Europeans owing to the Vedic idea of a war between light and darkness.
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Vedic
Peoples |
The
Aryan/Dravidian Divide |
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Battles mentioned
in the Rig Veda, whether between those called Aryans or Dasyus, are largely between the
"five peoples" (Pancha Manava). [More....] |
The languages of
South India are Dravidian, which is a different linguistic group than the Indo-European
languages of the North of the subcontinent. [More....]
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Vedic Kings
And Empires |
Vedic
Astronomical Lore |
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Vedic texts like
Shatapatha and Aitareya Brahmanas list a group of ten to sixteen kings. [More....]
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Vedic texts
contain interesting astronomical lore. The Vedic calendar was based upon astronomical
sightings of the equinoxes. [More....] |
Painted
Grey Ware |
Aryans In
The Ancient Middle East |
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One of the more
recent archeological ideas is that the Vedic culture is evidenced by Painted Grey Ware
pottery in north India [More....] |
the evidence so
far is that the people of the mountain regions of the Middle East were Indo-Europeans as
far as recorded history can be traced. [More....] |
Indus
Writing |
Sanskrit |
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The Indus Valley
culture had a form of writing, evidenced by numerous seals found in the ruins. [More....]
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According to
proponents of the Aryan invasion theory the only thing that really marks the Aryans is
their language. [More....] |
Indian
Civilization, An Indegenuous Development |
The New
Model |
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Mehrgarh is the
largest village/town culture of its period anywhere in the world and develops into the
Indus culture. [More....] |
The people in
this tradition are the same basic ethnic groups as in India today, with their same basic
types of languages Indo-European and Dravidian. [More....] |
Ancient
History Revised |
Political
And Social Ramifications |
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the Aryan invasion theory and seen how it has continually failed to prove itself. [More....]
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First it served
to divide India into a northern Aryan and southern Dravidian culture which were made
hostile to each other. [More....] |
