The Aryan race theory has very much disturbed the chronology of, and approach to the ancient Indian history. As already seen, its origin is in the similarity in words of different languages. It is reasonable to infer that there must have been one group of men in one place speaking the original language and the words must have spread elsewhere along with these men. But the search carried out only in Central Eurasia for this original place smells something else. The word Arya, appears in the Vedic literature, the most ancient in the world. Vedas are universally accepted as belonging to the so-called lndo-Aryans of Sarasvati area. Scholars like Max Mueller and Jones did have this knowledge. It is difficult to understand why the original home of the Aryans, in spite of this knowledge, was not searched in the land of Sarasvati. Moreover, the search was done in a place where there are very few rivers. It is a- generally accepted that in the beginning, man had his habitations on the banks of rivers. Why then the search in a river less place ? Is it because the land of Sarasvati belonged to Hindus who were a defeated nation then, from previous eight centuries ? Or is it because many of the European nations were then, a conquering people since the previous two or three centuries and the conquerors ego prompted them to search for the original home of the Aryans somewhere near to their countries?

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