Was there really an "Aryan Invation in India" ? Or just a myth? Now researchers are saying it's a misconcept?

Question

Latest research have clarified that the chromosomes of a south african, southindian & an Aryan is basically from an african Tribe "doodsee". In that case the Aryan invasion should be a myth.

Answer 1

The 'Aryan invasion of India' was a well planned British ploy to perpetuate the Brtish rule in India by invading their culture through a new system of education, by dividing them on lines of language , culture, and castes and preparing them for mass conversion into Christianity. The main pioneers were the missionary scholars like Macaulay, Max Muller, Griffith, Monier - Williams and H.H.Wison.

The recent archaeological findings dismiss the theory as a hoax and establish that there was a civilisation by the side of River Saraswati in the Western coast which was much older than the Indus Valley civilisation. The Gulf of Cambay findings put the Indian vedic civilisation as earlier than 9500 years from now. All these findings were traced by a latest technology called 'sub-bottom profiling' and side scan sonar technique. Human remains and other appliances have been found at these sites at a depth of 36 metres under the sea.

The recent French excavations at Mehergarh have shown that all antecedents in Indus Valley culture date back to 6000 B.C. Colin Renfrew, another Western scholar places the Indo -Europeans in Greece as early as 6000 B.C. Indo Aryans are even prior to the Indus Valley civilisation.

David Frawley, writing in 1994 laments, "Many Hindus still accept, read, or even honour the translations of the 'Vedas done by such Christian missionary scholars..." He further asks, "Would modern Christians accept an interpretation of the Bible or Biblical history done by Hindus aimed at converting them to Hinduism".

Answer 2

People coming to India had to impose a lot of things on the people and they brought with them historians too to prove their viewpoint. Like the history imposed by Britishers followed the history taught in
Moghul Times etc. India in ancient times was known as Aryavarta.

Answer 3

I'm not sure what this has to do with religion & spirituality.

Answer 4

A Myth created by British to justify their rule in India, and supported by missioneries. And made infamous by Hitler.

It is a well known fact that India is called Aryavart. Manu Smriti (2/21,22) describes the exact location of Aryavart which lies from the south of the Himalayas and all the way up to the Indian Ocean. Its inhabitants are called the Arya. But it is not a locally spoken name. But it is not a locally spoken name. Commonly, we write Bharatvarsh for India in general and scriptural writings. The territory of India (or Bharatvarsh for Aryavart) during the Mahabharat war (3139 BC) was up to Iran. So the ancient Iranian people also used to call themselves the Aryans.

People of the British regime using this information, fabricated a story that some unknown race of Central Asia who came and settled in Iran were called the Aryans and they were Sanskrit speaking people. They invaded India, established themselves permanently, and wrote the Vedas. Those who introduced this ideology never cared to produce any evidence in support of their statement because it never existed, and furthermore, fiction stories don’t need evidences as they are self-created dogmas.

According to Belgian scholar Koenraad Elst (1959 -) Dutch historian, born in Leuven, Belgium:

"The Aryan invasion theory was used to prove that Hindus were ultimately foreigners, exactly like their "Aryan cousins" the British. This alleged foreign origin of Hinduism is widely used to delegitimize the Hindu claim on India, and back then it was also used by the British and by their Indian loyalists to justify colonization. By showing that the Hindus are mere upstarts and squatters on the land (as they themselves are in America, Australia and other places), they can set up their own claim. For then neither the Hindus nor the Europeans are indigenous and as to who should possess this land, becomes merely a matter of superior might..

In this period, race theories conquered the intellectual scene, fitting neatly with the Europe-to-India scenario for the spread of Indo-European. It all fell into place: the Aryans had been white Nordic people who, with their inborn superiority, had developed a culture and technology which allowed them to subdue less advanced races: dark haired Mediterraneans and West-Asians, and dark-skinned invaders from Europe formed a complete case study of all that the upcoming racist worldview stood for.

British colonialism immediately put the emerging Aryan vision at the service of its propaganda, viz to tell the Indians that colonization by the British Aryans was but a second instance of the Aryan invasion which had made India into what it was; and that the Raj was nothing but a reunification of the oldest and the brightest branch of the Aryan family. Thus in his famous speech in 1862, Samuel Laing, Finance Minister of the Government of India, rejoiced that "the two races so long separated meet once more", though now "the younger brother has become the stronger, and takes his place as the head and protector of the family", coming to India "on a sacred mission, to stretch out the right hand of aid to our weaker brother, who once far out-stripped us, but has now fallen behind in the race."

While on one hand wooing the upper castes and North Indians with this Aryan rhetoric, the British along with the Christian missionaries also used the Aryan theory to pit the lower castes and South Indians, supposedly the progeny of the victimized non-Aryan natives, against their "Aryan fellow-countrymen. Contrary to the freedom movement, the anti-Brahmin and Dravidian movements were the fruits of British patronage. "

- By Koenraad Elst.

Michael Witzel does mention the ethnonyms of the enemies of the Vedic Aryans, the Dasas (Iranian Daha, known to Greco-Roman authors as Daai, Dahae), Dasyus (Iranian Dahyu, “tribe”, esp. hostile nomadic tribe) and Panis (Greek Parnoi), as unmistakably the names of Iranian tribes. The identification of these tribes as Iranian has been elaborated by Asko Parpola (“The problem of the Aryans and the Soma”, in Erdosy: op.cit., p.367), and is now well- established, a development which should at least put an end to the talk of the Dasas being “the dark-skinned aboriginals enslaved by the Aryan invaders”.

"Far from attesting an eastward movement into India, this text actually speaks of a westward movement towards Central Asia, coupled with a symmetrical eastward movement from India's demographic centre around the Saraswati basin towards the Ganga basin."

Max Muller was responsible for giving the word "Aryan" a racial meaning. Yet nothing resembling a racial definition is in the original Sanskrit. Like Richard Burton (and Lawrence of Arabia in the next century). Muller was an agent of the British government. He was paid to advance its colonial interests. Muller was told that the East India Company would be prepared to fund him to the tune of one lakh rupees - about 10,000 pounds, then an enormous sum - to translate the Rg Veda in a way that would destroy the belief of newly English educated Hindus in their ancient scriptures. For an impoverished foreign scholar who had already been working on the Rg Veda for several years, this was a godsend. This is no way to diminish his contribution.

Muller saw his scholarly work as part of a mission to convert India to Christianity. When writing to his wife in 1866 about his translation of the Rg Veda, he observed:

"This edition of mine and the translation of the Veda will hereafter tell to a great extent... the fate of India, and on the growth of millions of souls in that country. It is the root of their religion, and to show them what the root is, I feel sure, the only way of uprooting all that has sprung from it during the last 3000 years."

(source: The Life and Letters of the Rt. Hon. Fredrich Max Muller, edited by his wife. Longmans, London, 1902, Volume I, p. 328)

New Archeaological evidences show that the Harrappan civilisation was not a local civilisation but a really wide spread one. Saraswati has been detected by NASA and it was in Himalayan terrain a really a great river.

Gulf of Cambay has a city older than Sumer.

archaeological remains of this lost city have been discovered 36 metres (120 feet) underwater in the Gulf of Cambay off the western coast of India. And carbon dating says that they are 9,500 years old.

The vast city — which is five miles long and two miles wide — is believed to predate the oldest known remains in the subcontinent by more than 5,000 years.

Author and filmmaker Graham Hancock, an authority on archaeological investigations of ancient civilizations, reportedly said that the evidence was compelling. For example, he said that the oceanographers had found two large blocks that were larger than anything that's ever been found. "Cities on this scale," Hancock told BBC Online, "are not known in the archaeological record until roughly 4,500 years ago when the first big cities begin to appear in Mesopotamia.

Theorists are postulating that the area where this city exists was submerged when the ice caps melted at the end of the last Ice Age.

Dwarka , City of Krishna, is dated at least 7500 years old.

An ancient underwater city has been discovered off the coast of south-eastern India. Divers from India and England made the discovery based on the statements of local fishermen and the old Indian legend of the Seven Pagodas.

The ruins, which are off the coast of Mahabalipuram, cover many square miles and seem to prove that a major city once stood there

This hidden underwater city off Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu had previously been the stuff of legend. Some fishermen had always spoken of the exotic temple tops they had seen occasionally emerge from the sea, but few outside their own small communities had taken serious note of their stories.

Now Graham Hancock’s discovery earlier this year of a lost civilization that thrived some 30 miles off the coast of Chennai is forcing scientists to revise their theories and pay serious attention to his claim that civilization did not start in Mesopotamia, but rather in cities like the underwater Mahabalipuram that were drowned in floods at the end of the last ice age between 7,000 and 20,000 years ago. A leading UK expert on ice age sea levels has told him the site where he dived is indeed some 6,000 years old.

In the words of author Michel Danino: " With the distorting glass which the Aryan invasion theory imposed on India's past now shattered, it is only a matter of time before all the pieces are removed. One point now established is the antiquity of the Veda. Though Indian tradition and seers always held the Veda to be "many thousands of years old," Max Muller and his school brought this down to 1200-1000 B.C. But the Vedic nature of the Indus-Sarasvati civilization and the presence of the Vedic people along the Sarasvati in full flow now pushes this date back to at least 2500-3000 BC. That would have come as no surprise to Voltaire, who remarked with much commonsense:

"It does not behove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indian and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity."

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