T SPEAKER. PHILIP HANEY. WHEN THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY WAS FOUNDED IN 2003, IT STATED PURPOSE WAS PREVENTING TERROR TERRORIST ATTACKS WITHIN THE UNITED STATES AND REDUCING AMERICA'S VULNERABILITY TO TERRORISM. BY THE TIME PRESIDENT OBAMA TOOK OFFICE, MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD LINKED LEADERS IN THE UNITED STATES WERE FORCING CHANGES TO NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY AND BEING INVITED INTO THE HIGHEST CHAMBERS OF INFLUENCE. A POLICY KNOWN AS COUNTERING VIOLENT EXTREMISM EMERGED DOWN PLAYING THE THREAT OF ISLAM AND UNRELATED TO THE RELIGION AND ONE AMONG THE I HAD I DON'T LOGICAL MOVEMENTS. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY CHARTER MEMBER AND RETIRED EXPERT PHILIP HANEY BRAVELY BROUGHT UP THE PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS THAT THREATEN THIS ORGANIZATION TO HIS CHAIN OF COMMAND. HIS INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION WAS ELIMINATED AND HE WAS INVESTIGATED BY THE VERY AGENCY ASSIGNED TO PROTECT THIS COUNTRY. THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY TO RAISE PUBLIC AWARENESS OF TERRORISM AND TERRORISM-RELATED CRIME KNOWN AS, IF YOU SEE SOMETHING SAY SOMETHING, EFFECTIVELY HAS BECOME, IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY NOTHING. WHICH IS THE TITLE OF HIS NEW BOOK, "SEE SOMETHING, SAY NOTHING,"
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...........ARYAN language culture and civilization its history spread and negation. The true Aryans (Sanskrit name) originated in ARYAVRAT today known as India .....(English name). Aryans are also know as Hindus (Arabic name). The language of the Aryans is Sanskrit. An Aryan aim in life is to practice Dharam and to defend it, since its beginning some 10000 year ago. Ahimsa paramo dharmaha, Dharma himsa tathaiva cha. This blog is a collection of views of other authors some are my personal views.
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Former Counter Terror US Agent SUMMARY
Muslim Brotherhood Infiltration of US Government by founder of Dept of Homeland security
Most scary video on how under the guise of religious freedom and diversity Brotherhood is influencing US government at the highest level. please circulate.
Philip Haney is founder of Department of Homeland Security and Counter terror specialist fluent in Arabic and lived in the Mid East, hounded by US government for doing his job!!! and mentioning
terms such as
Islam, Islamic Terror, Sharia and reporting on Hamas.
If he was allowed to do his job both Orlando and San Bernardino attacks could have been stopped.
Act for America 2016 Conference, Part 6
Philip Haney, a former Customs and Border Patrol officer with the Homeland Security Department, discusses his allegations of Islamic infiltration of the U.S. govern...
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Saturday, August 20, 2016
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Ganita vs mathematics: Ten myths of Western math
C. K. Raju
Centre for Studies in Civilizations, New Delhi
Extended abstract
We reject the myth that Western math is universal. That was always anormative universality: while it was admitted that other ways of doing math existed, it was claimed that Western math was “superior”. This claim of “superiority” (e.g. the claim that metaphysical proofs are “superior” to empirical proofs) rests merely on some anti-scientific church dogmas born of hate politics. Further, the purported “superiority” of Western math, exactly like racist claims of “superiority”, is supported by the very same fabricated church/racist/colonial history (e.g. the myth of Euclid and the myth of his deductive proofs).
Any serious study of plurality in math must critically re-examine other ways of doing math, and select the better way of doing math. Whichmath should be taught in schools and universities? We cannot just assume that existing (colonial) math education should persist. Nor even can we continue to justify it merely on unexamined Western myths and dogmas, even if they are widely believed today (justbecause colonial education propagates them). Indeed, since math is taught as a compulsory subject in schools today, if the present way of teaching it rests on (and subtly propagates) religious dogmas, and related myths, as it does, its teaching must be changed in schools in any secular country.
To this end, of deciding which math is better, we compare formal math with religiously-neutral Indian ganita (together with the explicit philosophy of zeroism). We have selected ganita not for reasons of its Indian origins, but because it concerns practical value, which is surely more universal than Western dogmatic metaphysics. Further, most math taught in schools today (arithmetic, algebra, trigonometry, calculus, probability) historically originated as ganita. Also, those same ganita techniques of calculation continue to be used today for almost all practical applications of math to commerce, science and engineering (and indeed in all computer-based numerical calculations, such as those used to send a spacecraft to Mars, or to make stock-market predictions).
While the West imported ganita for its practical value, its epistemology clashed with the religiously-loaded epistemology of math in the West (e.g. all computer-based numerical calculations are today declared “erroneous”). Ganita was made theologically correct by (a) giving it a veneer of metaphysics (e.g. the use of metaphysical limits in calculus, to align its notion of infinity with church dogmas about eternity), and (b) packaging it with a false history (e.g. that Newton and Leibniz invented the calculus). This cocktail of practical value, religious metaphysics, and false history, was just declared “superior” and globalised by colonial education. Selecting ganita over formal math preserves the practical value, while eliminating the false history and bad metaphysics. Indeed practical value is enhanced: e.g., eliminating Newton’s conceptual confusion about calculus leads to a better theory of gravity. Or, e.g., teaching calculus as ganita enables students do harder problems.
However, the bad metaphysics and false history, underlying formal math, is a key part of colonial indoctrination (“education”). The indoctrinated cling to myths: when one myth is challenged, they try to “save” it by appealing to another (e.g. if the myth of Euclid is challenged they invoke the myth of deductive proofs in the Elements). Hence, to decolonise, the whole collectivity of myths must be simultaneously denied. If this denial is to be intelligible, it cannot also be brief: for brevity assumes shared beliefs. Thus a demand for brevity, in this context, becomes a trick to block dissent.
India and Terror vs Poverty
PM of India Modi 15th August 2016 Independence day address to the nation highlighted the fight against terror and Maoism and said "On the other hand, terrorism is being glorified. When innocent people are killed in terrorist attacks, there are celebrations. What kind of life is this which is inspired by terrorism? How governments are formed through inspiration of terrorism" He also acknowledged messages of support for from the peoples of Balochistan, Gilgit, (Pakistani Provinces) and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir who have thanked him, they have little democratic rights suffer both terror and poverty. He stated the main fight of the SAARC nations is of poverty, not a fight with each other. Reducing corruption, good governance and transparency are ways to help economic progress to lift millions out of poverty. He named a village only 3 hours from Delhi but it took 70 years for electricity to reach there. With a population of 800 million under the age of 35, India is set to use this human capital to become the work horse and economic powerhouse of the world, in the coming years.
FULL SPEECH HERE http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/pm-narendra-modis-speech-on-independence-day-2016-here-is-the-full-text/
FULL SPEECH HERE http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/pm-narendra-modis-speech-on-independence-day-2016-here-is-the-full-text/
Saturday, August 13, 2016
Aryan Invasion Theory Refuted Part 1
The Myth of the Aryan Invasion
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Svami B.V. Giri
IntroductionThe aryan invasion theory has been one of the most controversial historical topics for well over a century. However, it should be pointed out that it remains just that – a theory. To date no hard evidence has proven the aryan invasion theory to be fact. In this essay we will explain the roots of this hypothesis and how, due to recent emergence of new evidence over the last couple of decades, the validity of the aryan invasion theory has been seriously challenged. | |
It is indeed ironic that the origin of this theory does not lie in Indian records, but in 19th Century politics and German nationalism. No where in the Vedas, Puranas or Itihasas is there any mention of a Migration or Invasion of any kind. In 1841 M.S. Elphinstone, the first governor of the Bombay Presidency, wrote in his book History of India:
'It is opposed to their (Hindus) foreign origin, that neither in the Code (of Manu) nor, I believe, in the Vedas, nor in any book that is certainly older than the code, is there any allusion to a prior residence or to a knowledge of more than the name of any country out of India. Even mythology goes no further than the Himalayan chain, in which is fixed the habitation of the gods... .To say that it spread from a central point is an unwarranted assumption, and even to analogy; for, emigration and civilization have not spread in a circle, but from east to west. Where, also, could the central point be, from which a language could spread over India, Greece, and Italy and yet leave Chaldea, Syria and Arabia untouched? There is no reason whatever for thinking that the Hindus ever inhabited any country but their present one, and as little for denying that they may have done so before the earliest trace of their records or tradition.’The Birth of a MisconceptionInterest in the field of Indology during the 19th Century was of mixed motivations. Many scholars such as August Wilhelm von Schlegal, Hern Wilhelm von Humboldt, and Arthur Schopenhauer lauded praise upon the Vedic literatures and their profound wisdom, others were less than impressed. To accept that there was an advanced civilization outside the boundaries of Europe, at a time before the Patriarchs Abraham and Moses had made their covenant with the Almighty was impossible to conceive of for most European scholars, who harbored a strong Christian tendency. Most scholars of this period were neither archeologists nor historians in the strict sense of the word. Rather, they were missionaries paid by their governments to establish western cultural and racial superiority over the subjugated Indian citizens, through their study of the indigenous religious texts. Consequently, for racial, political and religious reasons, early European indologists created a myth that still survives to this day.
It was established by linguists that Sanskrit, Iranian and European languages all belonged to the same family, categorizing them as ‘Indo-European’ languages. It was assumed that all these people originated from one homeland where they spoke a common language (which they called ‘Proto-Indo-European’ or PIE) which later developed into Sanskrit, Latin, Greek etc. They then needed to ascertain where this homeland was. By pure speculation, it was proposed that this homeland was either southeast Europe or Central Asia.
Harappa Harappa and Mohenjo-daroThe discovery of ruins in the Indus Valley (Harappa and Mohenjo-daro) was considered by indologists like Wheeler as proof of their conjectures – that a nomadic tribe from foreign lands had plundered India. It was pronounced that the ruins dated back to a time before the Aryan Invasion, although this was actually never verified. By assigning a period of 200 years to each of the several layers of the pre-Buddhist Vedic literature, indologists arrived at a time frame of somewhere between 1500 and 1000BC for the Invasion of the Aryans. Using Biblical chronology as their sheet anchor, nineteenth century indologists placed the creation of the world at 4000BC 1 and Noah’s flood at 2500BC. They thus postulated that the Aryan Invasion could not have taken place any time before 1500BC.
Archeologists excavating the sites at Harappa and Mohenjo-daro found human skeletal remains; this seemed to them to be undeniable evidence that a large-scale massacre had taken place in these cities by the invading Aryan hordes. Prof. G. F. Dales (Former head of department of South-Asian Archaeology and Anthropology, Berkeley University, USA) in his ‘The Mythical Massacre at Mohenjo-daro’, states the following about this evidence:
Mohenjo-daro‘What of these skeletal remains that have taken on such undeserved importance? Nine years of extensive excavations at Mohenjo-daro (1922-31) - a city of three miles in circuit - yielded the total of some 37 skeletons, or parts thereof, that can be attributed with some certainty to the period of the Indus civilizations. Some of these were found in contorted positions and groupings that suggest anything but orderly burials. Many are either disarticulated or incomplete. They were all found in the area of the Lower Town - probably the residential district. Not a single body was found within the area of the fortified citadel where one could reasonably expect the final defense of this thriving capital city to have been made…Where are the burned fortresses, the arrow heads, weapons, pieces of armor, the smashed chariots and bodies of the invaders and defenders? Despite the extensive excavations at the largest Harappan sites, there is not a single bit of evidence that can be brought forth as unconditional proof of an armed conquest and the destruction on the supposed scale of the Aryan Invasion.’
Evidence from the Vedas
It was therefore concluded that light-skinned nomads from Central Asia who wiped out the indigenous culture and enslaved or butchered the people, imposing their alien culture upon them had invaded the Indian subcontinent. They then wrote down their exploits in the form of the Rg Veda. This hypothesis was apparently based upon references in theVedas that point to a conflict between the light-skinned Aryans and the dark-skinned Dasyus. 2 This theory was strengthened by the archeological discoveries in the Indus Valley of the charred skeletal remains that we have mentioned above. Thus the Vedas became nothing more than a series of poetic tales about the skirmishes between two barbaric tribes.
However, there are other references in the Rg Veda 3 that point to India being a land of mixed races. The Rg Veda also states that "We pray to Indra to give glory by which the Dasyus will become Aryans." 4 Such a statement confirms that to be an Aryan was not a matter of birth.
An inattentive skimming through the Vedas has resulted in a gross misinterpretation of social and racial struggles amongst the ancient Indians. North Aryans were pitted against the Southern Dravidians, high-castes against low-castes, civilized orthodox Indians against barbaric heterodox tribals. The hypothesis that of racial hatred between the Aryans and the dark-skinned Dasyus has no sastric foundation, yet some ‘scholars’ have misinterpreted texts to try to prove that there was racial hatred amongst the Aryans and Dravidians (such as the Rg Veda story of Indra slaying the demon Vrta 5 ).
Based on literary analysis, many scholars including B.G. Tilak, Dayananda Saraswati and Aurobindo dismissed any idea of an Aryan Invasion. For example, if the Aryans were foreign invaders, why is it that they don’t name places outside of India as their religious sites? Why do the Vedas only glorify holy places within India?
Max Mueller
"I have declared again and again that if I say Aryas, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair, nor skull; I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language...to me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar."(Max Mueller, Biographies of Words and the Home of the Aryas, 1888, pg 120)What is an ‘Aryan’?The Sanskrit word ‘Aryan’ refers to one who is righteous and noble. It is also used in the context of addressing a gentleman (Arya-putra, Aryakanya etc). 6 Nowhere in the Vedic literature is the word used to denote race or language. This was a concoction by Max Mueller who, in 1853, introduced the word ‘Arya’ into the English language as referring a particular race and language. He did this in order to give credibility to his Aryan race theory (see Part 2). However in 1888, when challenged by other eminent scholars and historians, Mueller could see that his reputation was in jeopardy and made the following statement, thus refuting his own theory -
But the dye had already been cast! Political and Nationalist groups in Germany and France exploited this racial phenomenon to propagate the supremacy of an assumed Aryan race of white people. Later, Adolf Hitler used this ideology to the extreme for his political hegemony and his barbaric crusade to terrorize Jews, Slavs and other racial minorities, culminating in the holocaust of millions of innocent people.
According to Mueller’s etymological explanation of ‘Aryan’, the word is derived from ‘ar’ (to plough, to cultivate). Therefore Arya means ‘a cultivator, or farmer’. This is opposed to the idea that the Aryans were wandering nomads. V.S. Apte's Sanskrit-English Dictionary relates the word Arya to the root ‘r-’ to which the prefix ‘a’ has been added in order to give a negating meaning. Therefore the meaning of Aryais given as ‘excellent, best’, followed by ‘respectable’ and as a noun, ‘master, lord, worthy, honorable, excellent,’ ‘upholder of Arya values, and further: teacher, employer, master, father-in-law, friend.’
No Nomads Kenneth Kennedy of Cornell University has recently proven that there was no significant influx of people into India during 4500 to 800BC. Furthermore it is impossible for sites stretching over one thousand miles to have all become simultaneously abandoned due to the Invasion of Nomadic Tribes.
There is no solid evidence that the Aryans belonged to a nomadic tribe. In fact, to suggest that a nomadic horde of barbarians wrote books of such profound wisdom as the Vedas and Upanisads is nothing more than an absurdity and defies imagination.
Although in the Rg Veda Indra is described as the ‘Destroyer of Cities,’ the same text mentions that the Aryan people themselves were urban dwellers with hundreds of cities of their own. They are mentioned as a complex metropolitan society with numerous professions and as a seafaring race. This begs the question, if the Aryans had indeed invaded the city of Harrapa, why did they not inhabit it after? Archeological evidence shows that the city was left deserted after the ‘Invasion’.
Colin Renfrew, Prof. of Archeology at Cambridge, writes in his book Archeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins’ -
‘It is certainly true that the gods invoked do aid the Aryas by over-throwing forts, but this does not in itself establish that the Aryas had no forts themselves. Nor does the fleetness in battle, provided by horses (who were clearly used primarily for pulling chariots), in itself suggest that the writers of these hymns were nomads. Indeed the chariot is not a vehicle especially associated with nomads’
Horses and ChariotsThe Invasion Theory was linked to references of horses in the Vedas, assuming that the Aryans brought horses and chariots with them, giving military superiority that made it possible for them to conquer the indigenous inhabitants of India. Indologists tried to credit this theory by claiming that the domestication of the horse took place just before 1500BC. Their proof for this was that there were no traces of horses and chariots found in the Indus Valley. The Vedic literature nowhere mentions riding in battle and the word ‘asva’ for horse was often used figuratively for speed. Recent excavations by Dr.S.R. Rao have discovered both the remains of a horse from both the Late Harrapan Period and the Early Harrapan Period (dated before the supposed Invasion by the Aryans), and a clay model of a horse in Mohenjo-daro. Since Dr. Rao’s discoveries other archeologists have uncovered numerous horse bones of both domesticated and combat types. New discoveries in the Ukraine also proves that horse riding was prevalent as early as 4000BC – thus debunking the misconception that the Aryan nomads came riding into history after 2000BC.
Another important point in this regard is that nomadic tribes do not use chariots. They are used in areas of flat land such as the Gangetic plains of Northern India. An Invasion of India from Central Asia would require crossing mountains and deserts – a chariot would be useless for such an exercise. Much later, further excavations in the Indus Valley (and pre-Indus civilizations) revealed horses and evidence of the wheel on the form of a seal showing a spoked wheel (as used on chariots).
An Iron Culture
Similarly, it was claimed that another reason why the Invading Aryans gained the upper hand was because their weapons were made of iron. This was based upon the word ‘ayas’ found in the Vedas, which was translated as iron. Another reason was that iron was not found in the Indus Valley region.
However, in other Indo-European languages, ayas refers to bronze, copper or ore. It is dubious to say that ayas only referred to iron, especially when the Rg Veda does not mention other metals apart from gold, which is mentioned more frequently than ayas. Furthermore, the Yajur and Atharva Vedas refer to different colors of ayas. This seems to show that he word was a generic term for all types of metal. It is also mentioned in the Vedas that the dasyus (enemies of the Aryans) also used ayas to build their cities. Thus there is no hard evidence to prove that the ‘Aryans invaders’ were an iron-based culture and their enemies were not.
Yajna-vedhisThroughout the Vedas, there is mention of fire-sacrifices (yajnas) and the elaborate construction of vedhis (fire altars). Fire-sacrifices were probably the most important aspect of worshiping the Supreme for the Aryan people. However, the remains of yajna-vedhis (fire altars) were uncovered in Harrapa by B.B. Lal of the Archeological Survey of India, in his excavations at the third millenium site of Kalibangan.
The geometry of these yajna-vedhis is explained in the Vedic texts such as the Satpatha-brahmana. The University of California at Berkley has compared this geometry to the early geometry of Ancient Greece and Mesopotamia and established that the geometry found in the Vedic scriptures should be dated before 1700BC. Such evidence proves that the Harrapans were part of the Vedic fold.
Objections in the Realm of Linguistics and Literature
There are various objections to the conclusions reached by the indologists concerning linguistics. Firstly they have never given a plausible excuse to explain how a Nomadic Invasion could have overwhelmed the original languages in one of the most densely populated regions of the ancient world. Secondly, there are more linguistic changes in Vedic Sanskrit than there are in classical Sanskrit since the time of Panini (aprox.500 BC). So although they have assigned an arbitrary figure of 200 year periods to each of the four Vedas, each of these periods could have existed for any number of centuries and the 200 year figure is totally subjective and probably too short a figure. Another important point is that none of the Vedic literatures refer to any Invasion from outside or an original homeland from which the Aryans came from. They only focus upon the region of the Seven Rivers (sapta-sindhu). The Puranasrefer to migrations of people out of India, which explains the discoveries of treaties between kings with Aryan names in the Middle East, and references to Vedic gods in West Asian texts in the second millenium BC. However, the indologists try to explain these as traces of the migratory path of the Aryans into India.
North-South DivideIndologists have concluded that the original inhabitants of the Indus Valley civilization were of Dravidian descent. This poses another interesting question. If the Aryans had invaded and forced the Dravidians down to the South, why is there no Aryan/Dravidian divide in the respective religious literatures and historical traditions? Prior to the British, the North and South lived in peace and there was a continuous cultural exchange between the two. Sanskrit was the common language between the two regions for centuries. Great acaryas such as Sankara, Ramanuja, Madhva, Vallabha, and Nimbarka were all from South, yet they are all respected in North India. Prior to them, there were great sages from the South such as Bodhayana and Apastamba. Agastya Rsi is placed in high regard in South India as it is said that he brought the Tamil language from Mount Kailasa to the South. 7 Yet he is from the North! Are we to understand that the South was uninhabited before the Aryan Invasion? If not, who were the original inhabitants of South India, who accepted these newcomers from the North without any struggle or hostility?
Pasupati Siva
SaivismThe advocates of the Invasion theory argue that the inhabitants of Indus valley were Saivites (Siva worshippers) and since Saivism is more prevalent among the South Indians, the inhabitants of the Indus valley region must have been Dravidians. Siva worship, however, is not alien to Vedic culture, and is certainly not confined to South India. The words Siva and Sambhu are not Dravidian in origin as some indologists would have us believe (derived from the Tamil words ‘civa’ - to redden, to become angry, and ‘cembu’ - copper, the red metal). Both words have Sanskrit roots – ‘si’ meaning auspicious, gracious, benevolent, helpful, kind, and ‘sam’ meaning being or existing for happiness or welfare, granting or causing happiness, benevolent, helpful, kind. These words are used in this sense only, right from their very first occurrence. 8 Moreover, some of the most important holy places for Saivites are located in North India: the traditional holy residence of Lord Siva is Mount Kailasa situated in the far north. Varanasi is the most revered and auspicious seat of Saivism. There are verses in the Rg Veda mentioning Siva and Rudra and consider him to be an important deity. Indra himself is called Siva several times in Rg Veda (2:20:3, 6:45:17, 8:93:3). So Siva is not a Dravidian divinity only, and by no means is he a non-Vedic divinity. Indologists have also presented terra-cotta lumps found in the fire-alters in Harappa and taken them to be Siva-lingas, implying that Saivism was prevalent among the Indus valley people. But these terra-cotta lumps have been proved to be the measures for weighing commodities by shopkeepers and merchants. Their weights have been found in perfect integral ratios, in the manner like 1 gm, 2 gms, 5 gms, 10 gms etc. They were not used as the Siva-lingas for worship, but as the weight measurements.
The Discovery of the Sarasvati River Whereas the famous River Ganga is mentioned only once in the Rg Veda, the River Sarasvati is mentioned at least sixty times. Sarasvati is now a dry river, but it once flowed all the way from the Himalayas to the ocean across the desert of Rajasthan. Research by Dr. Wakankar has verified that the River Sarasvati changed course at least four times before going completely dry around 1900BC. 9 The latest satellite data combined with field archaeological studies have shown that the Rg Vedic Sarasvati had stopped being a perennial river long before 3000 BC. As Paul-Henri Francfort of CNRS, Paris recently observed –"...We now know, thanks to the field work of the Indo-French expedition that when the proto-historic people settled in this area, no large river had flowed there for a long time." The proto-historic people he refers to are the early Harappans of 3000 BC. But satellite photos show that a great prehistoric river that was over 7 kilometers wide did indeed flow through the area at one time. This was the Sarasvati described in the Rg Veda. Numerous archaeological sites have also been located along the course of this great prehistoric river thereby confirming Vedic accounts. The great Sarasvati that flowed "from the mountain to the sea" is now seen to belong to a date long anterior to 3000 BC. This means that the Rg Vedadescribes the geography of North India long before 3000 BC. All this shows that the Rg Veda must have been in existence no later than 3500 BC. 10 With so many eulogies composed to the River Sarasvati, we can gather that it must have been well known to the Aryans, who therefore could not have been foreign invaders. This also indicates that the Vedas are much older than Mahabharata, which mentions the Sarasvati as a dying river.
Discoveries of New SitesSince the initial discoveries of Mohenjo-daro and Harappa on the Ravi and Sindhu rivers in 1922, over 2500 other settlements have been found stretching from Baluchistan to the Ganga and beyond and down to the Tapti Valley. This covers almost a million and a half square kilometers. More than 75% of these sites are concentrated not along the Sindhu, as was believed 70 years ago, but on the banks of the dried up river Sarasvati. The drying up of this great river was a catastrophe, which led to a massive exodus of people in around 2000-1900BC. Some of these people moved southeast, some northwest, and some to Middle-eastern countries such as Iran and Mesopotamia. Dynasties and rulers with Indian names appear and disappear all over west Asia confirming the migration of people from East to West. With so much evidence against the Aryan Invasion theory, one wonders as to why this ugly vestige of British imperialism is still taught in Indian schools today! Such serious misconceptions can only be reconciled by accepting that the Aryans were the original inhabitants of the Indus Valley region, and not a horde of marauding foreign nomads. Such an Invasion never occurred.
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Monday, July 11, 2016
Aryan Invasion Theory AIT refuted
AIT is a theory which claims that India was civilized from outside, yet new evidence indicates Aryans to be indigenous to India who spread out to Europe. Some facts such as Hindus religion being of 10000 years support this argument. Below list of commentators on the matter.
1. Edwin Bryant of Harvard
who states that there is insufficient evidence to deduce either OIT or AIT. He has examined numerous
linguistic arguments and has concluded that the linguistic evidence is inconclusive and mushy, and that linguistic evidence CANNOT be the clincher in either case. It can, at best, only be secondary evidence to supplement some
other primary evidence.
2. David Frawely and Navratna Rajaram
reject linguistic evidence and say that it is a pseudo science which is 90% conjecture and 10% facts, due to which the data can be interpreted either way with equal validity. Therefore, they adduce other data to support their
opinions, in particular those from the Internal testimony of the Vedas and now the Saraswati paradigm
3. B B
Lal, S P Gupta ignore the linguistic evidence and state that the archaeological evidence does not support any AIT but only a shift of the epicenter of Indian civilization from Sarawati to Gangetic valley. A similar view is held by
Jim Schaffer and Diane Lichtenstein
4. Satya Swarup Misra actually tries to prove on linguistic grounds that the IE speakers were originally resident in India and spread from there (See his book 'The Aryan Problem'). His views have been refuted (as far as I know) by Dr. Hans Heinrich Hock
5. Paul Kekai Mananasala
rejects the notion that IVC was IA on several grounds like genetics, linguistics and so on. However, he is not sure of the exact nature of IVC but points to prominent influences from the Austro Asiatic family. He used to be a believer in the AIT, as was BB Lal, S P Gupta, Satya Swarup Misra
6. Klaus Klostermeir
Rejects AIT and accepts an old date for the RV. But I am exactly clear of the reasons for his conclusions. Dr. Elst
rejects AIT as he things that the non-linguistic data is harder evidence against the advent of IA speakers in 1700 BCE. All the same, he feels that there is not enough evidence for the OIT
7.
Shrikant Talegeri
rejects AIT and combines a wide range of Indian literature from Vedas to the ancillary Vedic texts and Puranas/Itihasas to prove OIT. His books are very strong on linguistics and he actually makes effective use of linguistics and philology to reject AIT and prove OIT. His books are academically very rigorous and as far as I know, no sigificant refutation of even his linguistic arguments has appeared ever since his first book was published in 1993. The names of his books are
a. Aryan Invasion Theory and Indian Nationalism; 1993
b. Rigveda, a Historical analysis; 2000
The former deals with the Puranic legends and their close correspondence with the Internal testimony of
the Vedas and the linguistic basis for concluding OIT. The latter deals with RV itself and its ancillary texts and expands the linguistic arguments further.
8. K. D. Sethna (a Parsi)
rejects the AIT and has written dozens of articles and books to show that the entire chronology of India is on
very shaky grounds. He examines Indus seals, Asokan epigraphs etc., to demonstrate that AIT paradigms
are false and fictional. He is low on linguistics but depends more on the internal testimony of texts
9. S. R. Rao states
the IVC script is IA and not Dravidian 10. N Jha and N S Rajaram reject the notion that Brahmi developed
from a semitic script. They see a chain of development from the IVC script to the Brahmi script itself and have
used the latter to decipher the IVC script. Of the 2500 seals or so, they have translated 2000 seals and the language turns out to be Vedic or Sanskrit. They therefore reject the AIT. In their recent work (see
Indology list for reference), they have deciphered the Indus seals found in the Middle East also and have found the IVC script was used to some degree for the Middle Eastern languages as well in those area and so on.
11. Some traditional scholars like Bhagvad Datta and Surya Kanta etc. state that the IVC was not IA. Rather, it was a 'Assur' culture that was at odds with the Aryan culture of Aryavarta (E Punjab, Rajasthan, Haryana, UP etc.). They bring together an astonishing number of passages to develop their thesis, but these works are very old now.
They seem to follow the view of Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati that humans originated in what is now Tibet (see below)
12. Maharshi Dayanand proposed that Aryas originated in Tibet ('Trivishtapa') and thence migrated to
India, which was hitherto un-inhabited. He points out that not a single book in the vast literature of Hindus states or even suggests remotely that the Aryas came from outside India.
13. Lokmanya Tilak
suggested that Aryans came to India from the Arctic regions, but much before 1700 BCE
14. Traditional scholars like Pundit Ramagopal Shastri analyze each and every passage of RV which has the word Asura, Shambar, Namuchi and so on and prove that not a single verse has the racial meaning that the Old Indologists impute on them. They rather represent the eternal struggle of supermacy between good and evil.
15. Sri Aurobindo states that the Dravidian and Aryan languages have a common ansector called 'Dravidaryan' and the Dravidian - Aryan binary is invalid. Such a view is also held by Dr. Kak and by Dr. Kalyanaraman.
1. Edwin Bryant of Harvard
who states that there is insufficient evidence to deduce either OIT or AIT. He has examined numerous
linguistic arguments and has concluded that the linguistic evidence is inconclusive and mushy, and that linguistic evidence CANNOT be the clincher in either case. It can, at best, only be secondary evidence to supplement some
other primary evidence.
2. David Frawely and Navratna Rajaram
reject linguistic evidence and say that it is a pseudo science which is 90% conjecture and 10% facts, due to which the data can be interpreted either way with equal validity. Therefore, they adduce other data to support their
opinions, in particular those from the Internal testimony of the Vedas and now the Saraswati paradigm
3. B B
Lal, S P Gupta ignore the linguistic evidence and state that the archaeological evidence does not support any AIT but only a shift of the epicenter of Indian civilization from Sarawati to Gangetic valley. A similar view is held by
Jim Schaffer and Diane Lichtenstein
4. Satya Swarup Misra actually tries to prove on linguistic grounds that the IE speakers were originally resident in India and spread from there (See his book 'The Aryan Problem'). His views have been refuted (as far as I know) by Dr. Hans Heinrich Hock
5. Paul Kekai Mananasala
rejects the notion that IVC was IA on several grounds like genetics, linguistics and so on. However, he is not sure of the exact nature of IVC but points to prominent influences from the Austro Asiatic family. He used to be a believer in the AIT, as was BB Lal, S P Gupta, Satya Swarup Misra
6. Klaus Klostermeir
Rejects AIT and accepts an old date for the RV. But I am exactly clear of the reasons for his conclusions. Dr. Elst
rejects AIT as he things that the non-linguistic data is harder evidence against the advent of IA speakers in 1700 BCE. All the same, he feels that there is not enough evidence for the OIT
7.
Shrikant Talegeri
rejects AIT and combines a wide range of Indian literature from Vedas to the ancillary Vedic texts and Puranas/Itihasas to prove OIT. His books are very strong on linguistics and he actually makes effective use of linguistics and philology to reject AIT and prove OIT. His books are academically very rigorous and as far as I know, no sigificant refutation of even his linguistic arguments has appeared ever since his first book was published in 1993. The names of his books are
a. Aryan Invasion Theory and Indian Nationalism; 1993
b. Rigveda, a Historical analysis; 2000
The former deals with the Puranic legends and their close correspondence with the Internal testimony of
the Vedas and the linguistic basis for concluding OIT. The latter deals with RV itself and its ancillary texts and expands the linguistic arguments further.
8. K. D. Sethna (a Parsi)
rejects the AIT and has written dozens of articles and books to show that the entire chronology of India is on
very shaky grounds. He examines Indus seals, Asokan epigraphs etc., to demonstrate that AIT paradigms
are false and fictional. He is low on linguistics but depends more on the internal testimony of texts
9. S. R. Rao states
the IVC script is IA and not Dravidian 10. N Jha and N S Rajaram reject the notion that Brahmi developed
from a semitic script. They see a chain of development from the IVC script to the Brahmi script itself and have
used the latter to decipher the IVC script. Of the 2500 seals or so, they have translated 2000 seals and the language turns out to be Vedic or Sanskrit. They therefore reject the AIT. In their recent work (see
Indology list for reference), they have deciphered the Indus seals found in the Middle East also and have found the IVC script was used to some degree for the Middle Eastern languages as well in those area and so on.
11. Some traditional scholars like Bhagvad Datta and Surya Kanta etc. state that the IVC was not IA. Rather, it was a 'Assur' culture that was at odds with the Aryan culture of Aryavarta (E Punjab, Rajasthan, Haryana, UP etc.). They bring together an astonishing number of passages to develop their thesis, but these works are very old now.
They seem to follow the view of Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati that humans originated in what is now Tibet (see below)
12. Maharshi Dayanand proposed that Aryas originated in Tibet ('Trivishtapa') and thence migrated to
India, which was hitherto un-inhabited. He points out that not a single book in the vast literature of Hindus states or even suggests remotely that the Aryas came from outside India.
13. Lokmanya Tilak
suggested that Aryans came to India from the Arctic regions, but much before 1700 BCE
14. Traditional scholars like Pundit Ramagopal Shastri analyze each and every passage of RV which has the word Asura, Shambar, Namuchi and so on and prove that not a single verse has the racial meaning that the Old Indologists impute on them. They rather represent the eternal struggle of supermacy between good and evil.
15. Sri Aurobindo states that the Dravidian and Aryan languages have a common ansector called 'Dravidaryan' and the Dravidian - Aryan binary is invalid. Such a view is also held by Dr. Kak and by Dr. Kalyanaraman.
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