What are Dravidian languages?
Dravidian languages are a family of languages spoken (very much so in 2007) in South India, Central India, parts of North India and the Baluchi province of Pakistan. The major Dravidian languages are Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam. Dravidian languages are classified under one family basically for linguistic reasons, i.e., similarity of grammar and day-to-day words. The list of Dravidian languages is pretty long. Wikipedia goes like this:
Southern
Tamil
Malayalam
Kannada
Badaga
Bellari
Irula
Toda
Tulu
Kanikkaran
Kota
Kurumba
Paliyan
South Central
Telugu
Abujmaria
Gondi
Kui
Kuvi
Konda
Koya
Manda
Pengo
Sugali
Central
Kolami-Naiki
Naiki
Northwestern Kolami (India)
Southeastern Kolami (India)
Parji-Gadaba
Duruwa (India)
Mudhili Gadaba (India)
Parji
Pottangi Ollar Gadaba (India)
Northern
Brahui (the only Dravidian language spoken in Pakistan; in the Balochistan province)
Kumarbhag Paharia - (India)
Kurux language (India)
Kurux language Nepali - (Nepal)
Malto
Sauria Paharia (India)
Where are Dravidian languages being spoken?
The linguistic map of India is shown below (for further maps of world languages, click here):
http://purohita. blogspot. com/2007/ 01/aryan- invasion- theory-or- not-dravidian. .html
The parts which appear reddish are areas where "Dravidian languages" are being spoken. Of course the most important Dravidian languages - Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam - are easy to see. But a closer look reveals more Dravidian languages being spoken even in Central India as well as in present-day Pakistan (the Brahui language of Baluchistan is Dravidian).
The Aryan Invasion Theory
Mostly because of the presense of Dravidian languages in North India and Baluchistan, linguists have had to come to the conclusion that an "Aryan Race" invaded India which was mostly Dravidian. They are of the opinion that the Aryans drove Dravidians to the south. This, in short, is the Aryan Invasion Theory.
Opposition to Aryan Invasion Theory
The theory is not liked by many, notable among whom are BJP and the Sangh Parivar, who think of this theory as a tool used by the British to divide North and South India. There have been many attempts to disprove the Aryan Invasion Theory, including recent claims (which have their share of opposition) of having decoded the Harappa-Mohenjodaro inscriptions about whom the "Aryan or Dravidian" question is raised by many.
Support for Aryan Invasion Theory
South Indian universities and centers of study support the Aryan Invasion Theory. In some universities, it is taken for granted. Nobody even questions the theory. For them, the difference between the two language families - Dravidian and Indi-Aryan - is enough proof for their stand about history. These universities have come up with many a PhD thesis, many a book about Dravidian languages, how they're unique, how all Dravidian languages have similar grammar, etc.
The theory is also supported by linguists all over the world. See references for details. It is these linguists who are called as people who "divide-and- rule" by the opponents of the theory.
Unscientific approaches of both camps
Both opposers and supporters of the Aryan Invasion Theory have shortcomings. . It is funny how these shortcomings exist only in the Indian researchers.
The opposers of the theory (BJP, RSS & Co), although they've gone to lengths trying to disprove the Aryan Invasion Theory - something for which there is neither proof nor factual evidence, have failed to explain the similarity among Dravidian languages, and their marked linguistic difference between languages of the North which are called Indo-Aryan by linguists. In fact, the opposers even hide the fact that Dravidian languges fall into a different language family. I'd be darned if you find a map such as I've posted above in any publication of the Sangh Parivar. But the Sangh Parivar, if one has to take it seriously, must necessarily explain how their opposition to the Aryan Invasion Theory is consistent with linguistic facts. It's high time the opposers take a course in linguistics.
The supporters - people from South Indian universities - must take a scientific approach towards the theory instead of blindly agreeing with foreign linguists and historians. It is high time these people conduct deeper research into history and linguistics. Although the similarity of Dravidian languages has well been analyzed and researched, it's a pity that the Aryan Invasion Theory has been implicitly - and explicitly - assumed by these researchers. It's a grave mistake to take such things as given. It's a pity that these researchers don't come to conclusions about history on the basis of current linguistic proximity of Dravidian languages. What I mean is - they could use the fact that Dravidian languages are related in order to come to speculations - if not conclusions about the history of the speakers of Dravidian languages.
Why the Aryan Invasion Theory doesn't matter
The Aryan Invasion Theory - whether true or false - is useless in determining the future of speakers of Dravidian languages, unless it is politically engineered to determine. Why do I say that?
Whether the Aryan Invasion Theory is true or false, nobody can hide the fact that Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and every other Dravidian language is a "linguistic cousin" having not much to do with Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati and Bengali. Nobody can discount the fact that day-to-day words in all Dravidian languages are linguistically proximate. Scientific proof exists for the similarity of these languages, and only those who care a hoot for science can bring other theories to hide the similarity. It is such people who go around trumpeting the falsity that Samskruta is the mother of all languages (funnily, the rest of the world doesn't think so - they class Samskruta along with other european languages and provide linguistic proof for their similarity (maatru, mother, etc etc.)
Nor would it be politically correct or desireable to prove that Dravidian languages are derived from Samskruta (as the Sangh Parivar thinks). Dravidian languages are on the rise - contrary to what the English media led by the Times of India tries to propagate. Kannadigas, Tamilians, Telugus and Malayalis are becoming increasingly aware of their uniqueness and fighting for linguistic rights.
Truth alone wins. satyamEva jayate.
References
1. http://www.nvtc. gov/lotw/ months/april/ DravidianLanguag eFamily.htm
2. http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Dravidian_ languages
3. Dravida Bhashavijnana - Dr. Hampa Nagarajaiah, D.V.K. Murthy Publishers, Maisooru - 4.
4. Toulanika Dravida Bhasha Vijnana - Dr. K. Kempegowda, Bharati Prakashana, Maisooru
5. Dravidian Etymological Dictionary - Burrow and Emeaneau
Posted by purOhita at 10:09 PM
2 comments:
Anonymous said...
Just one question, why is the so called dravidian language of malayalam is rich in sanskrit (which is supposedly a aryan language)than any other indian language including hindi.
10:20 AM
purOhita said...
Malayalam has lots of Samskruta words simply because it has freely borrowed words from Samskruta. Kannada is also rich in Samskruta words.
I don't have facts to prove that Hindi has fewer Samskruta words than Malayalam, but one thing I can say is - Hindi has turned to Urdu for many of its words, thereby "reducing its attention" towards Samskruta.
But one thing you should note is - to establish linguistic proximity, one needs to consider day-to-day words like "Hand, ear, land, air, tree, stone", etc, and of course Grammar. In these, Malayalam is closer to Kannada, Tamil and Telugu than to Samskruta or Hindi.
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>
> THE ARYAN INVASION THEORY THE MOST ABSURD MYTH STILL
> REMAINING IN THE INDIAN SOIL & TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS –
> SHOULD WE CONTINUE TO TEACH THE MYTH CREATED BY THE BRITISH
> RULERS FOR RULING AND SUPPRESSING INDIANS FOR THEIR BENEFITS
> ?
>
> Dear Teachers, Education Policy Makers and Intellectuals of
> India ! Should we teach the most absurd myth of Aryan
> invasion created by the foreign rulers, even today ?. Is it
> necessary for us to belittle and denigrate ourselves even
> after 61 years of independence ?. What we are aiming at when
> we say that we are the invaders ? what we gain when we teach
> that we are the murderers of Dravidian's ? Which way we
> are going to be benefited when we say that we are two
> category people ? When all these pseudo historical facts are
> clearly proved as nonsense and only a myth and nothing but
> ‘stories’ ! We in Indian Institute of Scientific
> Heritage are giving you the points to understand what was
> India and what the British ( and later Indian rulers) aimed
> at teaching this ‘pseudo history of Aryan invasion ’ to
> us and why we continue to teach even today in our schools !
>
> What was India in olden days: Megasthenes, who visited the
> Maurya court at Pataliputra in the 4th century BC said
> “All Indians are free, and none of them is a slave…
> Indians neither invade other people, nor do other peoples
> invade India… They live happily, because of their
> simplicity and their frugality… since they esteem beauty,
> they practice everything that can beautify their appearance.
> Further, they respect alike virtue and truth….” In AD
> 1068 Andalusi an Arab writer wrote: “The Indians, among
> all nations, through many centuries and since antiquity ,
> have been the source of wisdom, farness and moderation. They
> are creators of sublime thought, universal fables, rare
> inventions and remarkable concepts….”
>
> Bedi ezr Zenan recorded that “ Indians are innumerable,
> like grains of sand, free from all deceit and violence. They
> fear neither death nor life” Akbar’s friend, Abul Fazl,
> wrote “The Hindus are religious, affable, lovers of
> justice, given to retirement, able in business, admirers of
> truth, grateful and unbounded fidelity; and their soldiers
> know not what it is to fly from the field of battle”
>
> In 1841 Mount Stuart Elphinstone, the first Governor of the
> Bombay Presidency, wrote “ no set of people among the
> Hindus are so depraved as the dregs of our great towns. The
> villagers are everywhere amiable, affectionate to their
> families, kind to their neighbors…. The Hindus are mild
> and gentle people… Their superiority in purity of manners
> is not flattering to our self esteem.”
>
> Thomas Munro specifically mentioned thus: “If a good
> system of agriculture, unrivaled manufacturing skill, a
> capacity to produce whatever can contribute to convenience
> of luxury; schools established in every village for
> teaching, reading, writing and arithmetic; the general
> practice of hospitality and charity among each other; and
> above all, a treatment of the female sex full of confidence,
> respect and delicacy, are among the signs which denote a
> civilized people then the Hindus are not inferior to the
> nations of Europe; and if civilization is to become an
> article of trade between England and India, I am convinced
> that England will gain by the import cargo”.
>
> The words of French thinker Voltaire “We have shown how
> much we surpass the Indians in courage and wickedness and
> how inferior to them we are in wisdom. Our European nations
> have mutually destroyed themselves in this land where we
> only go in search of money, while the first Greeks traveled
> to the same land only to instruct themselves… I am
> convinced that every thing has come down to us from the
> banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metaphysics,
> etc.”
>
> William Macintosh wrote: “All history points to India as
> the mother of science and art. This country was anciently so
> renowned for knowledge and wisdom that the philosophers of
> Greece did not disdain to travel thither for their
> improvement”
>
> Friedrich Schlegel said in 1803 “ Everything without
> exception is of Indian origin… whether directly or
> indirectly all nations are originally nothing but Indian
> colonies… the oriental antiquity could, if we consented to
> deepen it, bring us back more safely towards the divine”
>
> Thomas R Trautmann explained “ The study of Sanskrit and
> Indian antiquities would bring a second renaissance to the
> West , as the study of Greek learning had been the
> foundation of the first Renaissance”
>
> Mark Twain Said thus: “ India, the land of dreams and
> romance and the country of hundred tongues of a thousand
> religion and two million gods, saddle of the human speech,
> mother of history, grand mother of legends, great grand
> mother of traditions, the land that all men desire to see
> and having seen once by even a glimpse could not give that
> glimpse for any shows of all the rest of the globe combines.
>
>
> In 1901 a great historian wrote “… A century and half
> ago, when Bengal was much more wealthy than was
> Britain……” This was the early India which was Bharath.
> The Muslims first for 6 centuries invaded, looted and
> crushed India and whatever possible they destroyed. Then the
> French, the Portuguese, the Dutch, the British…. and other
> Europeans, looted, exploited, cheated, destroyed and crushed
> everything which the Indians possessed. until 1947 August
> 14th Midnight. For justifying whatever they had done, the
> Aryan invasion theory helped them. Later the Indian rulers
> also followed the footsteps of the foreigners for remaining
> in power and for looting and cheating their own brethrens
> and sisters. The same pseudo theory helped them to create
> inferiority complex among Indians. The British and the
> Indian rulers had the same pathway and aim in their ruling
> operations ! Divide and rule, create an inferiority complex,
> conversion of Hindus, maintaining the
> family rule for many generations……. Whatever
> ‘created’ by the British rulers for establishing,
> maintaining and protecting their rule and interest were
> copied as such by Indian rulers for the last sixty years .
> The explanations remains the same ! “ Rescuing and
> protecting India and Indians but the fact is divide and rule
> and keep in power for ever”.
>
> The glory of India attracted every one who was searching
> wealth from all over the world. For looting and exploiting
> Indian resources, for converting Indians to Christianity and
> for ruling India for ever, whatever has to be done that was
> done by the British rulers ! One among these, is the Aryan
> Invasion Theory! Let us analyze it!
>
> Max Muller, the first among the great proponents of the
> Aryan Invasion theory said “ the whole human race required
> a gradual education before, in the fullness of time, it
> could be admitted to the truths of Christianity”… ( the
> humanity should be converted to Christianity !)
> Max Muller wrote to this wife about the ‘mis
> translation’ of Rigveda “ this edition of mine and the
> translation of the Veda, will hereafter tell to a great
> extent on the fate of India and on the growth of millions of
> the souls in that country. It is the root of their religion
> (Hindu Dharma) and to show them what the root is, I feel
> sure, is the only way of uprooting all that has sprung from
> it during the last three thousand years.” ( creating a
> vacuum in the mind of Hindus by misinterpreting the Vedas !)
>
>
> The European historians and so called scholars gave a
> racial colour to Rig Veda and they declared the Aryans to be
> a “race” and arbitrarily identified the Dasas and
> Dasyus, the words mentioned in Rig Veda as the
> “Dravidians” a name which has never never appeared in
> any of the ancient Indian texts.
>
> These ‘scholars’ said “..a great army of Aryans
> invaded from Central Asia…” .First, in 1843, they used
> the words ‘People of Aryan race’ then it was changed
> into “Indo Europeans” and then the words changed to
> “Indo Germans” .. the words went on changing depending
> upon the need of the European ‘historians’
>
> The shrewd Britishers utilized this ‘pseudo history’ to
> strengthen their rule in India. This theory was used to
> crush down the Indian’s pride on his culture and glory “
> since India was no longer the source of Indian
> civilization” why should they be proud of their culture,
> that culture was brought by the Aryans who were the Invaders
> (like the English people) ! This imaginary story was
> repeated by everyone particularly the white skinned scholars
> whom the Indian respect, to make it the history !.
>
> Even about the British rule, a leading Christian Missionary
> John Wilson said in 1858 “What has taken place since the
> commencement of the British rule in India is only a reunion,
> to a certain extent, of the members of the same great
> family” ( the family of Aryans invaded from Europe to
> India).
>
> For declaring that the Europeans and Indians have got the
> ancestral relation as the decedents of the same race and
> repeatedly declaring that the Britishers have got all the
> great ancient relation to rule this country and also to
> convert this country into Christianity, all efforts were put
> for the strong British foundation in India. In 1929 Stanley
> Baldwin, gave a lecture in the House of Commons, in England
> : Ages and ages ago there sat, side by side, the ancestors
> of the English, Rajputs and Brahmins. Now, after ages….,
> the two branches of the great Aryan ancestry have again been
> brought together by providence… By establishing British
> rule in India, God said to the British, “I have again
> brought you and the Indians together after a long
> separation, not in order that you should lord over them, or
> that you should exploit them, but in order that you should
> recognize your kinship with them… it is your duty to raise
> them to their own level as quickly
> as possible and work together , brothers as you for the
> evolution of humanity (which means work for converting them
> to Christianity) .
>
> McCauley’s speech in British Parliament in 1835 “… I
> have traveled across the length and breadth of India and
> there I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a
> thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high
> moral values , people of such caliber, that I do not think
> we would ever conquer this country, unless we break the very
> backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural
> heritage, and therefore, I propose that we replace her old
> and ancient education system, her culture, for if the
> Indians think that all that is foreign and English is good
> and greater than their own, they will lose their self
> esteem, their native culture and they will become what we
> want them, a truly dominated nation” ( Means that they
> have to break every thing what was Indian for establishing
> the British rule)
>
> The speech delivered by Richard Temple in 1883, for the
> members of Christian missionary society. “ India is a
> country which of all others we are bound to enlighten (
> means to convert to Christianity) with eternal truth… but
> what is most important to you friends of missions, is this-
> that there is a large population of aborigines, a people who
> are outside caste…if they are attached, as they rapidly
> may be, to Christianity they will form a nucleus round which
> British power and influence may gather. Remember , too, that
> Hinduism, although it is dying , yet has force…and such
> tribes, if not converted to Christianity, may be perverted
> to Hinduism… You may be confident that the missions in
> India are doing a work which strengthens the imperial
> foundation of British power……”
>
> The work of converting original India to British India ! In
> 1856, Robert Cardwell, the Bishop of Tirunelveli , for the
> first time gave the linguistic meaning for the term “
> Dravida” in his book, comparative grammar of the Dravidian
> or south Indian family of languages. Till then there was
> nothing like Dravidian language in India. The dividing was
> done efficiently. Even in 21st century there are so many
> “Dravidian” language institutes and Universities in
> India based on the word “Dravida” which is nothing but
> the creation of Britishers for dividing us! Bishop said
> “the (Dravidian) language is naturally distinct from the
> “ that of the conquering race of the Aryans”.
>
> The result ……! This could create the Dravidian movement
> in Tamil Nadu by E. V. Ramaswamy Naikar, known as Periyor.
> This could create lot of conflict in Indian society. Anti
> Hindi, Anti Sanskrit, Anti Ramayana, Anti Brahmin,
> …….agitations! The words tribes and adivasis were thus
> originated for creating a permanent damage in Hinduism. Thus
> the division created by the English people got deepened
> after their leaving India, nurtured by our own politicians.
> In 1962, C. N. Annadurai even demanded for a separate
> “Dravida nadu”. The “great work of British” started
> fetching the result and fruits expected by them .
>
> NOW LET US ANALYSE WHAT IS THE TRUTH ?
> There is no word like Dravida in any of the Vedas or Vedic
> literature. The British Scholar F. E. Pargiter has thus
> said. “ If the Aryans had entered Indian from the north
> west and had advanced eastward through the Punjab only as
> far as the Sarasvati or Yamuna when the Rigvedic hymns were
> composed, it is very surprising that the hymn arranges the
> rivers, not according to their progress, but reversely from
> the Ganges which had hardly reached “Imam me gange yamune
> saraswati sutudri stoman sacata…” (Rigveda X. 75.05).
>
> Strangely, one of the loudest European voices against the
> whole Aryan myth (at a later stages) was from none other
> than Max Muller, one of its chief creators of the myth! In
> 1888, forty years after he had promoted the concept of an
> Aryan race, he flatly denied having even spoken of an Aryan
> race: “I have declared again and again that if I say
> Aryans, I mean neither blood nor bones nor hair nor skull; I
> mean simple those who speak an Aryan language” Two years
> later, he even disown the short chronology he himself had
> arbitrarily fixed for Indian scriptures. In a famous
> declaration of 1890, he said “ whether the Vedic hymns
> were composed 1000 or 1500 or 2000 or 3000BC, no power on
> earth will ever determine…”.
>
> Finally in his autobiography published after his death in
> 1900 the astonishing statement “As to the actual date of
> the Veda… If we were to place it at 5000 BC, I doubt
> whether anybody could refute such a date, while if we go
> back beyond the Veda, and come to measure the time required
> for the formation of Sanskrit… I doubt whether even 5000
> years would suffice for that.” It is pity that the so
> called Indian scholars were/are no longer listening to him
> and preferred to go along with the rash theories of his
> younger days.
>
> The word Dravida had purely a geographical (not racial)
> orientation . It, in a different way, first appears in
> inscriptions about 2nd Century BC as dramira, later changed
> to dramila or dramida which was simply synonymous with
> Tamila. Formerly the Pancha dravida desa includes
> Maharashtra and Gujarat also.
>
> The so called mythical Aryan, first spotted in ancient
> India through the distorted reading and misinterpretation of
> Vedas, explained originated from the banks of Indus and
> Sarawati River , started shifting its origin. See even the
> base of the myth is shifted continuously ! Somebody said the
> Aryans originated from the Plateau of Central Asia ! Later
> it was said it can be somewhere Germany ! Again shifted to
> Upper Central Asia ! Later diverted to Iran ! Some scholars
> started declaring that it can be Scandinavia ! Then claim
> has gone to Switzerland ! It was claimed later as originated
> from Germany , very precisely Central and Western Germany !
> Thus the origin of the “Aryans” shifted continuously in
> the “Aryan Invasion story”,. Even though world over
> discarded this myth, Indian intellectuals are still
> discussing the same ! ( Let us pray after this continuous
> shift of the origin of Aryans, if it finally reaches to
> India as the base of Aryans, then the
> problem is solved, except the wasted time and energy for
> Indians)
>
> Surprisingly on a later state it was so told that “ the
> Indians came to excluded from the Aryan concept to which
> they had supplied the name”. That means the European
> historians said that there are no Aryans in India at all !
> Neither came here as invaders, nor present originally ! This
> was due to the claim made for the ‘Aryan greatness’
> which can be attributed only for the white skinned
> (Europeans). Once the Europe got the feeling of the
> monstrous Nazism from Hitler during world was II. Everyone
> stopped talking about the so called Aryan Race.
>
> Trautmann wrote about this “ The racial theory …and
> concept of race does nothing to illuminate our understanding
> of the ancient sources of Indian history and , on the
> contrary has only served to corrupt our reading (
> understanding) of them” (Indians)
> Julian Huxley in 1939, wrote “ what these men have
> written on the subject has been cast by historians into the
> limbo of discarded and discredited theories”. They got
> fully rejected from everywhere.
>
> Now the Webster dictionary published in 1980 gives the
> meaning “ Aryan has no validity as an ethnological term”
>
>
> The French archeologist Salomon Reinach, writing in 1892
> said thus” To speak of an Aryan race of three thousand
> years ago is to put forward a gratuitous hypothesis; but to
> speak of it as if it still existed today is quite simply
> absurd”
>
> A great German Scholar Moritz Winterniz “ We cannot
> explain the development of the whole of this great Sanskrit
> literature if assume as late a date as round about 1200 BC
> or 1500BC” So nothing like the ‘invasion’ has taken
> place
>
> Jonathan Mark Kenoyer a US archaeologist who has worked on
> Indus cities for over twenty years, referred to the so
> called theory was because of the “ uncritical and
> inaccurate reading of the Vedic texts by some scholars”
>
> Swamy Dayananda Saraswati’s words are very clear “ In
> none of the Sanskrit or history textbooks has it been stated
> that the Aryans came from Iran, vanquished the aborigines…
> and became rulers.” The word Arya is the moral and inner
> qualities, Aryavartha the home of scholars in the original
> sense of Vedic Indian.
>
> Swamy Vivekananda remarked scornfully in a lecture in USA.
> “ And what your European Pundit say about the Aryans
> swooping down from some foreign land snatching away the land
> of aborigines and settling in India by exterminating them ,
> is all pure nonsense, foolish talk. Strange that our Indian
> scholars too say ‘Amen’ to them. And all these monstrous
> are being taught to our boys”
>
> Swamy Vivekananda : “According to some of the European
> scholars the ‘Aryans came from Central Tibet, some say
> from Central Asia, some say Aryans lived in Swiss lakes and
> I should not be sorry if they had been all drowned these
> theory and all….As the truth of these theories, there is
> not one word in our scriptures not one, to prove that the
> Aryan even came from anywhere outside India, and in ancient
> India was included Afghanistan. There it ends…the whole of
> India is Aryan, nothing else.”
>
> Maharshi Aurobindo said thus: “In India…we are eady to
> accept all European theories, the theory of an Aryan
> colonization of a Dravidian India, the theory of Nature
> worship..of the Vedic Rishies…as if these hazardous
> speculations were on a par in authority and certainty with
> the law of gravitation and the theory of evolution.”
>
> B. R. Ambedkar :..”The Aryan invasion theory is not
> allowed to evolve out of facts. On the contrary, the theory
> is preconceived and facts are selected to prove it. It falls
> to the ground at every point. The Vedas do not know any such
> race as the Aryan race. There is no evidence in the Vedas of
> any invasion of India by the Aryan race and its having
> conquered. The Dasas and Dasyus supposed to be the natives
> of India. There is no evidence to show that the distinction
> between Aryans, Dasas ad Dasyus was a racial distinction .
> The Vedas do not support the contention that the Aryas were
> different in colour from the Dasas and Dasyus….”
>
> Rigveda itself has made it clear that the wars between
> Aryans and Dasyus were battles between the powers of light
> and darkness, that the world Arya was plainly used in the
> Veda to describe not a racial group but a quality of being,
> a noble culture, a readiness to fight for truth. The fight
> between dharma and adharma, the good and evil,…..
>
> The carbon dating technique experiments and results
> available now give ample proof to disprove anything and
> everything connected with the myth of invasion. Absolutely
> nothing like the so called migration has ever taken place
> anywhere in India. The scientific and technological products
> like glass, ceramics, metals, alloys, civil engineering
> structures, and millions of such things give solid proof
> that INDIANS ARE INDIANS AND ALL ARYANS ARE INDIANS FOR
> EVER.
>
> The genetically based studies have given ample proof that
> there is nothing like shifting of any race from anywhere to
> this continent.
>
> Prof. S.P. Gupta says that “ there was neither an Aryan
> race nor a Dravidian Race. The concept of ‘race’ itself
> is a myth”
>
> The mantras in India will tell you the more important facts
>
> Ayodhya mathura maaya kaasi kanchi avanthika puri dwaravati
> chaiva saptahaithe mokshadaayaka ( seven cities of ancient
> India right from northAyodhya to Kanchi in Tamail nadu
> Gange cha yamune chaiva godavari sathadruthi narmade sindhi
> kaveri….the seven rivers from all over India.
> Himalayam samarabhya yavath indi sarovaram tham deva
> nirmitham desam hindusthanam prachakshathe:
> From Himalaya to Indian ocean the land created by god is
> known as Hindustanam.
> In Ramayana, Sri Rama traveled all the way from north India
> to southern most tip of India. In Mahabharatha, Pandavas
> traveled from Hastinapura to Kerala.
>
> So many astronomical evidences dates back the history of
> Vedas to 5000 – 8000 BC, based on the calculation of
> position of the Sun .
>
> The myth is still taught in India as history. The reason
> for sustaining this theory in India is that Indians adopted
> the old colonial framework without any change. Our own new
> masters followed the same system of divide and rule on the
> linguistic, regional, religious and caste lines. For this
> purpose the Aryan invasion theory is being fully utilized,
> even today with the support of the intellectuals and
> politically motivated historians.
>
> Dear Teachers, and Education policy makers and
> intellectuals of India ! Should we teach the most absurd
> myth of Aryan invasion created by the foreign rulers, even
> today ?. Is it necessary for us to belittle and denigrate
> ourselves even after 61 years of independence ?. What we are
> aiming at when we say that we are the invaders ? what we
> gain when we teach that we are the murderers of Dravidians ?
> Which way we are going to be benefited when we say that we
> are two category people ? when all these pseudo historical
> facts are clearly proved as nonsense and only a myth.
>
> We have suffered a lot due to anti Hindi, anti Sanskrit and
> anti Indian agitation ! We have suffered a lot by
> denigrating our own culture ! We have suffered a lot due to
> minority and majority classification of the Indians having
> the same blood ! We have suffered a lot due to the children
> of the soil slogan ! Those politicians who created all these
> problems are in the helm of affairs in many states of India
> ! Unfortunately we have learned only negatives from the
> history and not the positives ! Divide and rule policy is
> being practiced even today ! Caste, religion,
> language,….are returning for dividing us from within!
>
> ( Compiled by Dr. N. Gopalakrishnan, Scientist and Hon.
> Director of IISH) and Hundred of thanks to him for giving
> this valuable information.
>
> --- On Thu, 1/15/09, Ashok Chowgule
> <ashokvc@chowgulegoa .com> wrote:
>
> From: Ashok Chowgule <ashokvc@chowgulegoa .com>
> Subject: Re: [media_monitor5] Hindu group in US objects to
> 'The Story of India'
> To: media_monitor5@ yahoogroups. com
> Date: Thursday, January 15, 2009, 8:11 AM
>
>
>
>
>
>
> I think the invasion is today discounted, except for
> hard-core
> anti-Hindus, for whom lies are the only way to take their
> agenda
> forward. However, what is now being said is that there was
> a migration
> of the 'Aryans' from Central Asia (the same place
> where the 'invaders'
> are supposed to have come from). Most say the numbers
> involved was
> small and that it was over a period of time - that is it
> was not an
> organised movement.
>
> However, these migrationists contend that the migrants came
> to dominate
> the local society and effectively ruled over them. Many
> Hindus have
> said that this no different than what the invaders were
> supposed to have
> done. So the ultimate result of the supposed migration was
> no different
> than that of the supposed invasion.
>
> The migrationists have not moved away from determining that
> the
> 'migrants' were nomads - the same determination as
> in the earlier
> theories. And they also accept that the civilisation that
> they came to
> was an advanced one. And the migrationists contend that
> within about
> 200 years of contact with this advanced civilisation, the
> nomads
> produced one of the greatest literature of all times - the
> Vedas. This
> had made David Frawley wonder how is that an advanced
> civilisation left
> no literature, while nomads could do such a phenomenal
> feat. Also,
> remember that the nomads travelled through a lot of
> territory (there
> were no planes at the time), but did not create the
> literature in the
> other places where they were supposed to have settled down.
> This is
> what is called the Frawley paradox.
>
> Going back in time, when the Aryan invasion was first
> proposed in early
> 1800s, the nomads were supposed to have defeated a
> primitive people.
> When Mohenjodaro and Harrappa were discovered about a
> hundred years
> later, the invasion aspect was kept intact, but it was now
> contended
> that the nomads defeated an advanced civilisation by better
> fighting
> techniques. Now that an invasion has been proved to be
> false, the
> nomadic nature of the outsiders was kept intact, but the
> net result of
> what would happen after an invasion is also kept intact. In
> all the new
> discoveries, the agenda had to be kept alive and the
> interpretation of
> the new data had to suit this agenda. There was no
> revisiting the basic
> premise that there was an outside group who came to India.
>
> Namaste
> Ashok Chowgule
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "HARAN BR"
> To:
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 8:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [media_monitor5] Hindu group in US objects to
> 'The Story of
> India'
>
> //Some 3 years ago, Michael Witzel attended a conference on
> this issue
> at
> the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth (UMassD.edu. )
> This was
> organized by Dr Bal Ram Singh, Director of the Indic
> Studies Center
> there;
> Dr Rajaram was also present. I distinctly remember Witzel
> admitting
> there
> that the "AIT" (Aryan Invasion Theory) was
> history//
>
> Respected Chandrakanth ji
> Was this conference
> video-graphed? If so can the copies of it be collected? Why
> can't it be
> spread through you-tube?
>
> Thanks & Regards
>
> Haran.
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