| The Myth Of Aryan Invasion Of India |
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| Books By David Frawley |
| THE ARYAN INVASION THEORY | |
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| Every sort of foreign ideology has
employed it to try to deny India any real indigenous civilization so that
the idea of the rule of foreign governments or ideas becomes acceptable. Even today it is not
uncommon to see this theory appearing in Indian newspapers to uphold modern,
generally Marxist or anti-Hindu political views. From it comes the idea that there is really
no cohesive Indian identity or Hindu religion but merely a collection of
the various peoples and cultures who have come to the subcontinent, generally from the
outside.
Therefore a reexamination of this issue is perhaps the most vital intellectual concern for India today. The Aryan invasion theory was similarly applied to Europe and the Middle East. It proposed that the Indo-Europeans were invaders into these regions in the second millennium BC as well. Thereby it became the basis for maintaining a Near Eastern view of civilization, which places the earliest civilization in Mesopotamia and tries to derive all others from it.
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