Hindu Books > Books By David Frawley > The Myth Of The Aryan Invasion Of India

The Post-Colonial World Our view of human history colors the perception of who we are in a fundamental way. [ More... ] The Aryan Invasion Theory The main idea used to interpret the ancient history of India. [ More... ] Basis Of The Aryan Invasion Theory We should first note that the Aryan invasion theory was foreign to the history of India. [ More... ] Aryan As Race Or Language The Aryan invasion theory is based upon the idea that Aryan represents a particular group of people. [ More... ] The Development Of The Aryan Invasion Idea European scholars following Max Muller in the nineteenth century decided that the Vedic people. [ More... ] Mechanics Of The Aryan Invasion The Aryan invasion theory was invented to solve the riddle of languages. [ More... ] Harappan Civilization After the formulation of the Aryan invasion theory, archeology did not stop. [ More... ] Migration Rather Than Invasion 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. [ More... ] The Rediscovery Of The Sarasvati River The retreat of the Aryan invasion theory has been accompanied by the rediscovery of the Sarasvati river of Vedic fame. [ More... ] The Vedic Image Of The Ocean 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. [ More... ] Horses, Chariots And Iron All the main points of the Aryan invasion in its various incarnations have been disproved. [ More... ] Destroyers Of Cities The Rig Veda describes its Gods as "destroyers or conquerors of cities. [ More... ] Vedic And Indus Religions 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... ] The So-called Racial War In The Vedas 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. [ More... ] Vedic Peoples Battles mentioned in the Rig Veda, whether between those called Aryans or Dasyus, are largely between the "five peoples" (Pancha Manava). [ More... ] The Aryan/Dravidian Divide 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... ] Vedic Kings And Empires Vedic texts like Shatapatha and Aitareya Brahmanas list a group of ten to sixteen kings. [ More... ] Vedic Astronomical Lore Vedic texts contain interesting astronomical lore. The Vedic calendar was based upon astronomical sightings of the equinoxes. [ More... ] Painted Grey Ware One of the more recent archeological ideas is that the Vedic culture is evidenced by Painted Grey Ware pottery in north India. [ More... ] Aryans In The Ancient Middle East 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 The Indus Valley culture had a form of writing, evidenced by numerous seals found in the ruins. [ More... ] Sanskrit 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 Mehrgarh is the largest village/town culture of its period anywhere in the world and develops into the Indus culture. [ More... ] The New Model 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 We have examined the Aryan invasion theory and seen how it has continually failed to prove itself. [ More... ] Political And Social Ramifications First it served to divide India into a northern Aryan and southern Dravidian culture which were made hostile to each other. [ More... ]

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Published on: 2003-02-07 (29395 reads)