Who were the Aryans ?

Question

We have read that they entered the Indian Sub Continent thru the Himalayan mountains . But just exactly who were they ?

Answer 1

They called themselves the "noble ones" or the "superior ones." Their names are lost; their tribal names are lost. But when they found themselves conquerors, they gave themselves the name "superior" or "noble."

They were a tribal and nomadic peoples living in the far reaches of Euro-Asia in hostile steppe lands barely scratching out a living. They were unquestionably a tough people, and they were fierce and war-like. Their religion reflects it dominated as it is by a storm-god or sky-god that enjoins warfare and conquest. This god was called something like "Dyaus," a word related to "Zeus," "deus" (the Latin word for "god"), "deva" (the Sanskrit word for "god"), and, of course, the English word "divine." Their culture was oriented around warfare, and they were very good at it. They were superior on horseback and rushed into battle in chariots. They were a tribal people ruled over by a war-chief, or raja (the Latin word "rex" (king) comes from the same root word, along with the English "regal"). Somewhere in the early centuries of the second millenium BC, they began to migrate southwards in waves of steady conquest across the face of Persia and the lands of India.

Answer 2

The most basic division of the Indian society is of Aryans and Dravidians. According to this division, nearly 72% of Indians are Aryans and 28% are Dravidians. The north Indians are the descendants of Aryans and the south Indians are Dravidians.
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According to general Indian legend, the Aryans arrived in north India somewhere from Iran and southern Russia at around 1500 BC
They began conquering and taking control over regions in north India and at the same time pushed the local people southwards or towards the jungles and mountains in north India.
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The Aryans were a tribe of Indo-European-speaking, horse-riding nomads living in the arid steppes of Eurasia. Sometime around 1700 BC, the Aryans invaded the ancient urban civilizations of the Indus Valley, and destroyed that culture. The Indus Valley civilizations were far more civilized than any horse-back nomad, having had a written language, farming capabilities, and led a truly urban existence. Some 1,200 years after the supposed invasion, the descendants of the Aryans, so they say, wrote the classic Indian literature called the Vedic manuscripts.
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Adolph Hitler twisted the theories of Gustaf Kossinna (1958-1931), to put forward the Aryans as a master race of Indo-Europeans, who were supposed to be Nordic in appearance and directly ancestral to the Germans.
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Answer 3

One of the most interesting puzzles in archaeology, and one that hasn't been completely solved yet, concerns the story of the supposed Aryan invasion of the Indian subcontinent. The story goes like this:

The Aryans were a tribe of Indo-European-speaking, horse-riding nomads living in the arid steppes of Eurasia. Sometime around 1700 BC, the Aryans invaded the ancient urban civilizations of the Indus Valley, and destroyed that culture. The Indus Valley civilizations were far more civilized than any horse-back nomad, having had a written language, farming capabilities, and led a truly urban existence. Some 1,200 years after the supposed invasion, the descendants of the Aryans, so they say, wrote the classic Indian literature called the Vedic manuscripts.
They were a tribal and nomadic peoples living in the far reaches of Euro-Asia in hostile steppe lands barely scratching out a living. They were unquestionably a tough people, and they were fierce and war-like. Their religion reflects it dominated as it is by a storm-god or sky-god that enjoins warfare and conquest. This god was called something like "Dyaus," a word related to "Zeus," "deus" (the Latin word for "god"), "deva" (the Sanskrit word for "god"), and, of course, the English word "divine."

Answer 4

There are a lot of theories about the origans of the Aryans. And if there ever truly was/is an actual race - or group of like featured people that truly existed as in ancient times.

I think that the word Aryan(sp?), actually is more of a description of like minded (and probably similar in physical appearance) people who believe that of all the races, the "supreme", the only one that should be allowed to live are purely 100% caucasian.

I know that the picture of blonde hair and blue eyes, or the absense of hair (skinheads) with blue eyes often comes to mind when "Arryans" are mentioned, but I think that it really has to do with people who believe that those who were born pure caucasian, with no trace, no matter how ancient, or accidental, of any other race's blood in them what so ever are the superior beings, and the rest should be killed so that the earth is only inhabited by pure caucasians forever.

(BTW, I may be white, but I am in no way of the mindset that I just described!) NOT AT ALL!

Answer 5

being an INDIAN i know it A long strange story, although it began innocently enough. Since ancient times people had noticed that there were a lot of similarities among European languages. But it wasn't until the 16th century, when Europeans began studying the Indian language Sanskrit, that scholars realized this similarity extended to several Asian languages as well. The classic example was the word "father," which was echoed by vater in German, pater in Latin, and pitar- in Sanskrit.

In 1786 the British orientalist William Jones suggested what today is an accepted fact of science, namely that all the languages were descended from a common source, of which no trace now remains. In the 1800s the philologist Max Mueller gave this protolanguage a name: Aryan, a name believed to have been used by various peoples living in the vicinity of Persia, modern Iran.

It seemed reasonable that the Aryan language had originated with a single Aryan tribe, or in the parlance of the day, an Aryan race. Language scholars occupied themselves for the next hundred years trying to determine where this tribe had lived and what they had looked like. At first it was assumed that the Aryans were Asians, but nationalistic European scholars found this hard to swallow and began scrounging for evidence that the Aryans had originated in Europe. German scholars were particularly energetic in this regard and persuaded themselves that the Aryans were a tall, blond, "dolichocephalic" (long-headed) people whom today we would call Nordic. The Germans and their supporters believed the blond Aryans had originally lived by the shore of the Baltic sea and had spread their language and culture throughout the rest of Europe and parts of Asia. The fact that most speakers of Aryan languages did not look at all Nordic they explained away by saying that the original blonds had long since been submerged in the gene pool, and they dug out all sorts of references to fair-haired or fair-complected heroes, heroines, or deities in the Homeric ballads and other ancient texts. These were the now-lost Aryans, they argued, bringing the gift of civilization to the shlubs.

The idea that the blond Aryans were a superior race was first raised explicitly in 1853 by one Joseph Arthur, comte de Gobineau. De Gobineau was a respected ethnologist who argued in all seriousness that the Aryan races would prosper as long as they did not allow themselves to be tainted by mixing with black and yellow peoples. De Gobineau's ideas were widely popular and are said to have influenced Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche. Stripped of the scholarly trappings, Aryanism soon filtered down to the beer halls and eventually became one of the central tenets of Nazism. By then it had shed any linguistic significance; Hitler justified his persecution of the Slavs on the grounds that they were racially inferior, although they spoke Aryan languages.

After World War II nobody wanted to have anything to do with Aryans and the term was dropped in favor of "Indo-European." But the search for the original Aryans/Indo-Europeans wasn't completely abandoned. The leading candidate at the moment, I gather, is the "kurgan" people of what is now south Russia, so named because they built mounds called kurgans. From 4000 to 3000 BC, some researchers believe, they migrated in all directions, bringing their language with them. Not much is known about them, although there is archeological evidence that they were tall. But blond hair, blue eyes? Only their hairdressers knew for sure, and they didn't tell.

Answer 6

There were no such people as the Aryans. They were made up for propaganda purposes by the Nazis to elevate themselves over the rest of the europeans. The claim was that, while europeans (and americans) were from inferior white stock made degenerate by mixing with other races, the German people were pure genetically and descended from a superior type of person, who, while also white, was unrelated to european whites.

The whole thing is, of course, just another lie for propaganda purposes. Hitler himself was actually of jewish ancestry. A fact liable to get you immediately and painfully executed under his regime, if you dared to point this out.

The important thing to understand here is how lies are an integral part of fascism, so much so that reality itself is no longer paid much attention to. This is a trait taken from marxism (national SOCIALISM, aka nazism is a direct construct of marxism). You see elements in all the derivatives of marxism....socialism, communism and liberals (today's liberals have raised delusion to a high art form). If you want a good idea of what life would be like if liberals gained real power, read George Orwell's 1984.

Answer 7

OK I see you have been doing some dark reading or at least a little metaphysical reading.

From a lot of extensive study, we are still not sure that actually happened. There are many variations to the story with different locations.

If you are taking about who they were prior to the Nazi build-up, its not a discussion for this place.

If you want keep searching you will find the answer in due time, but in my opinion forget it, its not worth your time.

Answer 8

The germans think they are the only aryans.

Aryans are everywhere from India to the America!

Answer 9

The answer to that varies, anywhere from ancient tribes from Asia, to Hitlers supposed superior race of blond hair blue eyes.

Answer 10

No, I thought they were The Master Race in Germany.