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Myth Of Aryan Invasion Of India |
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Fifth, it gave the Marxists a good
basis for projecting their class struggle model of society on to
India, with the invading Brahmins oppressing the indigenous Shudras (lower castes). Even today the
invasion theory is used to inflame the sentiments of the backward
classes in India against the Brahmins who, by this idea,
originally invaded India and conquered and enslaved the
indigenous population and turned them into
Shudras.
The Aryan invasion theory discredited not only the Vedas, but
the genealogies of the Puranas, and their long lists of kings before
the Buddha or Krishna were left without any historical basis (or
somehow turned into pre-Vedic or non-Aryan people). 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, the Aryan invasion theory discredited
the most of the Hindu tradition and almost all its ancient literature.
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