Questions pro Aryan Invasion Theorist never answer!

For long scholars have only looked at retrofitting all available evidence and some fictional ones to prove an Aryan invasion of India. The AIT is a very unidimensional approach which has been disproved on all counts. This article is to question AIT proponents what proof have they found elsewhere especially in Central Asia the supposed original homeland of the Aryans or in Western Europe where some of the Aryan tribes supposed to have migrated and settled.

In a very positive development last week respected and acknowledged historians and scientists from numerous fields like astronomy, archaeology and anthropology gathered for a seminar to confirm India’s rich past. Led by Institute of Scientific Research on Vedas (www.serveveda.org) and Indian Archeological Society they together reaffirmed the now widely held theory that there was no Aryan race or Aryan Invasion of India and the history books of India and the world have to be re-written to correct a gargantuan blunder.

One can read the entire article here www.dailypioneer.com/357607/The-India-we-have-never-known.html

The purpose of this post is not to go into what is already known and acknowledged world over about the non-existent Aryan invasion theory and a mountain of evidence has been provided as proof. The purpose of this post is to put the ball on the other side of the court starting with a few comments and questions.

1. If the Aryan invasion happened around 1500 BC starting from central Asia, one group moved West i.e. towards Europe and the other group south finally into India then what evidence is there of the group which went West and populated Europe?

2. If for a moment we believe that there was a migration of a body of people from central Asia, looking at human evolution and early migration patterns most communities settled around perennial sources of water in tropical or sub tropical areas where the sunshine and water is abundant and weather moderate. One would wonder why would anyone travel west into heavily wooded areas affording less pastures for their grazing animals and extreme cold weather for majority of the year allowing very small window for growing crops. If we look at recent history, Mongols the masters of the steppes only went where their horses could get grazing pastures and avoided heavily wooded areas. If nomadic horse riding Aryan herdsmen were anything like the nomadic Mongol herdsmen then they would probably do the same more so if they were chariot drivers. So my point being that even if there was a migration which is highly unlikely there was no migration west thus Europe never received any people from central Asian at that point in time. So Europeans should stop associating themselves with Aryans or any such race.

3. Has there been any archeological evidence of chariots from Bronze Age or from the period corresponding to Aryan invasion unearthed in Europe?

4. With the last Ice Age in the northern hemisphere early human population would naturally gravitate towards warmer climes, i.e. the Middle East and India. At the end of the Ice Age approximately 10,000 years BC with more lands available for occupation in the north precipitated by population pressure on existing land people would have been pushed northwards which probably explains why a lot of European languages have similar words or sounds to Sanskrit and not because of migration the other way around.

5. If the Vedas were created by the Aryans decidedly in an oral tradition then where are the traces howsoever faint of the Vedas in western civilisation. Has this proof been provided by the other side?

6. In Bronze Age or later age settlements unearthed in Europe has there been any discovery of the fire altar as per the Vedic tradition. Please bear in mind that the Vedic fire altar is a mathematically precise construction with each brick shaped on precise mathematical calculations?

7. If the primary Gods of the Aryans were Indra, Varuna and others, coincidence of similar Gods in Norse or Germanic mythology notwithstanding has there been any direct references to these Gods by same name in Europe?

8. What would inspire continental dwellers to have a name for the God of Sea, Varuna as they live thousands of miles away from the sea?

9. The word OM is a oft mentioned in the the Vedas, has there been any evidence of the word OM or its symbolism in Europe ? 

10. Lack of horse in Indian sites seems to have been a major point for the invasion theorist, which was proved to be patently false as horse remain have been found all over India since the Pleistocene, approximately 2.5 million years from the current era. Has the other side provided presence of horse in Europe for the period we are discussing? How come Roman and Greek records written starting 8th century BC i.e. 800 years before Christ and Roman war records written starting 5th century BC i.e. 500 years before Christ record battle engagements with northern barbarians i.e. present day Switzerland and Germany etc on foot. Even much after towards the day of the Roman Empire the northern tribes always fought on foot. Popular movies based on accurate historical research depict northern barbarians to be dressed in animal fur fighting on foot. So where is the evidence of horse in Europe during this period. 

This brings us to recorded history of travellers of antiquity. One such travelogue which has survived the ravages of time is the Indika by Megasthenes which became a reference guide even to later day travellers such as Arrian and Strabo. Megasthenes was the ambassador of Seleucus Nikator, Satrap (Governor) of Alexander the Great for middle east and Asia minor (Turkey) to the court of Indian Emperor Chandragupta Maurya and travelled extensively around India from 250 BC to 298 BC. In his book Indika Megasthenes minutely describes the people, customs, traditions, attire, food religion, laws, geography, fauna, flora and all other possible details that he ecounters while travelling around India from Pentapotamia (Greek for land of the five rivers present day Punjab) to Patalibotra (Patliputra, present day Patna) to Kanyakumari in the south to Serendib (Lanka).

In his description of the people of India he clearly states that they are tall but lightly built (lean) dark skinned with black long hair which they tie in a bun on top of their head and wear turbans with twisted cloth. All men have beards and shaving is not known among the Indians. Nowhere in his entire narration has he alluded to fair skinned Indians either in the North west, North or in the South lording over dark skinned people.

In fact in Megasthenes description of Chandragupta Maurya he notes the Emperors dark skin, medium build and pock marked face. He also goes into great detail about the Brahmanae caste (Brahmins) and their customs and traditions but does not make a remark on their skin colour as being lighter than the others and they lording over the others. In fact he mentions various instances where the Brahmins have been out casted for having broken a vow, law or tradition.

This description of India goes counter to the AIT theory of large, blue eyed, blonde haired white skinned Aryans lording over dark skinned natives. The description of the people of India by Megasthenes is around 1250 years after the supposed arrival of the Aryans i.e. 1500 BC and given that in the intervening period there may have been some intermingling of the people causing some of these racial attributes to be diluted but at any rate fair skinned people should have been present in some numbers and complete absence of any such mention in the text is a clear indicator that no such fair skinned invasion or migration of Aryans occurred. 

Thus we should allow the pro Aryan invasion theorist to prove the Aryan invasion of Europe conclusively first rather than prove the invasion of India through retrofitting evidence and sometimes concocted ones. 

Christian missionaries in scholarly clothing: Excerpts from the book Sarasvati and the Vedic Civilisation by NS Rajaram Part 13

There was more than scholarship involved in creating the Aryan invasion theory. Max Muller was as much colonial-missionary political agents as he was a scholar, for which he was richly rewarded. As he proudly declared in his Autobiography: “Lord Derby, then secretary of State for India, declared that the scholars who had discovered and proved the close relationship between Sanskrit and English, had rendered more valuable services to the British Government of India than many a regiment”. The most eloquent statement relating this ‘history’ to the Brtish rule came from Stanley Baldwin then Prime Minister, in a speech he made in the House of Commons in 1929:

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 brought you and the Indians together after a long separation, not in the 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 your own level as quickly as possible and work together, brothers as you are, for the evolution of humanity…

Ref: Sarasvati and the Vedic Civilisation by NS Rajaram

Friedrich Max Muller Confessions. Excerpts from the book Sarasvati and the Vedic Civilisation by NS Rajaram Part 12

Devout Christians were at the forefront of the resistance to Darwin’s theory of evolution and natural selection. Surprisingly parts of America and Europe still resist his theory. In fact as late as 1890 most schools in the west taught the Biblical account of creation, which means that most students who passed out from these institutions were indoctrinated by this Christian dogma. The fact that the first English schools in India were run by Christian missionaries was also responsible for the Biblical theory, and it’s the Aryan invasion theory. Indian history was retrofitted into Biblical timelines.

Towards the end of his career Max Muller did try to dilute his earlier position by stating, “Whether the Vedic hymns were written 1000, 1500 or 2000 or 3000 BC, no power on earth can ever determine”.

Ref: Sarasvati and the Vedic Civilisation by NS Rajaram

Ancient Indian history retrofitted into Christian Biblical dogma. Excerpts from the book Sarasvati and the Vedic Civilisation by NS Rajaram Part 10

It’s important to note that the Aryan invasion theory is entirely a nineteenth century European creation. It finds no support in ancient Indian records, which recognizes no homeland other than India. Also, the theory was formulated when there was no archaeology or scientific methods to assist nineteenth century European scholars who also for the most part lacked scientific education. Most of them believed in the Biblical theory of creation according to which the world and all the living things were created at 9:00 am on October 23^rd 4004 BC. For several centuries it was a serious offence to question this Christian dogma. Firm belief in this dogma led early Indologist to manipulate Indian history and chronology to fit everything within the framework of this Biblical superstition.

History books do not mention this Biblical background – most authors probably are even unaware of it – but unwittingly they still carry the legacy of this Christian Fundamentalist doctrine. It was later presented in the linguistic terms, and the chronology of ancient India and the date of the Rigveda found in history books were made to rest on these Biblical beliefs: Creation in 4004 BC and the Biblical floods in 2448 BC. Nor is this the only contributor to the Aryan invasion theory, European and British colonial interest too played their role.

Ref: Sarasvati and the Vedic Civilisation by NS Rajaram

Please read more from the same series

http://sowingseedsofthought.blogspot.com/2010/11/synopses-from-book-sarasvati-and-vedic.html

http://sowingseedsofthought.blogspot.com/2010/11/synopses-from-book-sarasvati-and-vedic_02.html

http://sowingseedsofthought.blogspot.com/2010/11/excerpts-from-book-sarasvati-river-and.html

http://sowingseedsofthought.blogspot.com/2010/11/excerpts-from-book-sarasvati-river-and_03.html

http://sowingseedsofthought.blogspot.com/2010/11/no-horse-at-harappa-sarasvati-river-and.html

http://sowingseedsofthought.blogspot.com/2010/11/global-drought-ended-harappa-not-any.html

http://sowingseedsofthought.blogspot.com/2010/11/reference-to-sarasvati-in-rigveda.html

http://sowingseedsofthought.blogspot.com/2010/11/sarasvati-great-mother-of-us-all.html

http://sowingseedsofthought.blogspot.com/2010/12/ancient-chronology-harappa-sutra.html
http://sowingseedsofthought.blogspot.com/2010/10/4-recommended-books-for-all-ancient.html

Ancient Chronology - The Harappa-Sutra connection. Excerpts from the book Sarasvati and the Vedic Civilisation by NS Rajaram Part 9

The foundation of the book Sarasvati River and the Vedic Civilisation by NS Rajaram drives home the point that the Vedic Sarasvati civilisation and the Harappan civilisation were one and the same. The Rigvedic Sarasvati civilisation represents an earlier phase from the Harappan civilisation.

Very briefly we can summaries that the Rigvedic civilisation formed the cultural, religious and intellectual basis of the later Harappan civilisation and the Harappan cities were the materialistic side of the Vedic civilisation.

This is proven by research conducted by archaeologist such as SR Rao in India and AH Dani in Pakistan who found several evidence of Vedic practices including sacrifices and fire worship. A careful correlation of these archeological finds like Vedic altars with technical literature has shown that the Sulbhasutras – which are mathematical manuals found in Vedic literature must have been used for their design and construction. 

These mathematical texts are part of the so-called Sutra period of the Vedic age. The four Vedas constitute the basic Vedic literature. This was followed by the Brahmanas and the Sutras. The Sutra period is therefore the closing part of the Vedic age. The famous Sulbasutras are part of the Sutra literature and therefore came at the end of the Vedic age. Since we now have the connections between the Sulbas and Harappan archeology, this suggests that the Harappan civilisation must have belonged to the closing period of the Vedic age.

This conclusion is supported by other research. On the basis of a comparison of archaeology with the literary records of India and the Mesopotamia, KD Sethna and others have independently shown that the Harappan civilisation of the c. 3000 to 2000 BC corresponds also to the Sutra period of the Vedic literature. The Harappans carried on brisk trade with the Sumerians who had their empire in the valley of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates in west Asia.

Sethan’s work is based on a comparison of Indian and Sumerian records. Sethan notes that the evidence of cotton in Sumerian and Harappan sites combined with it being mentioned in the Sutras literature for the first time imply that both the Harappan and Sumerian civilisation belonged to the Sutra period. The Sumerians called cotton kapazum, which is known as karpasa in Sanskrit. Furthermore, the Sumerians have recorded that cotton was imported from India. In Sumerians records India is referred to as Meluhha a Prakrit word for western India that was further corrupted from Sanskrit word ‘Mleecha’.

The Sutra literature in particular the mathematics of Sulbasutras must have been the basis of the great urban civilisation of the Harappans. Do remember that Harappan structures were multi-storied structures, harbours, huge water tanks and granaries, well laid out cobbled streets with running water for each house and sewage system that rivals modern cities. Without this scientific infrastructure the great urban civilisations of the Harappans would not have been possible just as the modern world would not have been possible without modern mathematics.

The important point to note is that the scientific analysis presented here shows that the Rigveda describes the society before the rise of the Harappan civilisation. This is exact reverse of the chronological relationship between the Vedic and the Harappan societies given in the history books currently.

Comment: The current history books don’t explain the basis for the great urban civilisation of the Harappan civilisation yet credits the Vedas to the nomadic barbarian Aryan invaders. Going by the current history books Harappan urban civilisation sprang out of thin air were then destroyed by invading barbarians who brought the high Vedic knowledge with them. How much more unscientific and unsubstantiated can the narrative on the Aryan invasion theory be.

Ref: Sarasvati and the Vedic Civilisation by NS Rajaram

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http://sowingseedsofthought.blogspot.com/2010/11/synopses-from-book-sarasvati-and-vedic.html

http://sowingseedsofthought.blogspot.com/2010/11/synopses-from-book-sarasvati-and-vedic_02.html

http://sowingseedsofthought.blogspot.com/2010/11/excerpts-from-book-sarasvati-river-and.html

http://sowingseedsofthought.blogspot.com/2010/11/excerpts-from-book-sarasvati-river-and_03.html

http://sowingseedsofthought.blogspot.com/2010/11/no-horse-at-harappa-sarasvati-river-and.html

http://sowingseedsofthought.blogspot.com/2010/11/global-drought-ended-harappa-not-any.html

http://sowingseedsofthought.blogspot.com/2010/11/reference-to-sarasvati-in-rigveda.html

http://sowingseedsofthought.blogspot.com/2010/11/sarasvati-great-mother-of-us-all.html

http://sowingseedsofthought.blogspot.com/2010/12/ancient-indian-history-retrofitted-into.html

http://sowingseedsofthought.blogspot.com/2010/10/4-recommended-books-for-all-ancient.html 

Scientific validation of the Vedas by scientist, mathematicians, astronomers etc!!!

The first video discusses the falsity of the Aryan invasion theory using Veda as basis and exposing the bias and evil motive of western scholars and education system!!!



Second video verifies the continuity of Vedic Hindu civilisation along with Dwarka and Mahabharata



Scientific validation of the Vedas



If you notice, the people who really respect and accept the greatness of the Vedas and the true knowledge it holds are mostly mathematicians, astronomers, scientists, doctors and philosophers. Common historians and archeologists even today are funded by the church or other religious bodies that will not allow such secular information to be published on tv or magazines.

A classic case is the National Geographic (NG), History channel and Discovery programming. Most of the programs here are created by institutes/ Univ. based in the US who receive substantial funding from the church to promote their version of history or the white people version. What I find most funny is that major series on the Spartans, Greeks, Romans, Egypt, ancient world etc are created by US based historians and archeologists and their approach is completely based on conjecture and the narration is so authoritative and absolute as if the historian was really a first hand eye witness in the Roman senate or elsewhere in the ancient world. On the other hand Univs and research institutes in Egypt, Greece, Italy and Europe in general don't seem to care so much and have in fact given up their pretension to being the heirs to the Greek civilisation which they tried to appropriate earlier in the last two centuries (much to the consternation of the Greeks themselves) just like they tried to take away the ownership of the Vedas and Sanskrit or at least tried to deny the same to us.

PS: It has recently been discovered that T-Rex was actually a four legged beast walking on all four and not the bi-ped with two useless forelegs which we are used to seeing. Now the old theory is so much in circulation via movie and print that it was deemed too expensive and even confusing for people so attempt to re-education was dropped. Similarly if you see programs on NG the so called Paleologist from the US is so utterly convinced as a christian priest that he conjectures with authority as to how all these pre-historic beast looked like or behaved would make you feel that he actually was tending to them as a good shepherd.

Unfeterring the Hindu Mind - Part II

In one of the most scientific anthropological research ever to identify the origins of the Indian population, researchers in Harvard Medical School and Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology Hyderabad have proved that Indian people always lived here since pre history and all the developments and wisdom - scientific, scholarly, linguistic, religious and social are indigenous and a tribute to the genius of our ancestors.

This has again blown a hole big to sink the already floundering and rejected Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT) first concocted by arm chair history theorist Friedrich Max Muller between 1846 and 1860 CE in his search for a glue to bind German nationalism by using shallow linguistic similarities as proof. This theory was readily accepted and propagated by the British to justify their rule in India as the second coming of the Aryans. The rejection and mocking of this particular theory is beautifully portrayed in the 1982 Richard Attenborough movie 'Gandhi'. The Mahatma ridicules it by not meriting it with a reply and gives a cold stare to the speaker during the Quit India movement negotiations. This incident goes to prove that the AIT was always flawed with great thinkers like Swami Vivekananda and Philosopher like Shri Aurobindo rejecting the theory outright. More recently it has been under critical review from researchers world wide by historians, researchers and scientists such as Koenraad Elst, David Frawley, Subhash Kak, Navratan Rajaram to name a few.

Incidentally Max Muller himself accepted the flaws in his theory and worked to make amends in his letters and later books but by then it was too late. The seeds of AIT was sown world wide and till now vested interest groups like the leftist Congress, the Communist party and the DMK in India have continued to use this theory for their own brand of divide and rule politics.


http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report_who-came-first-indians-or-europeans_1294860

http://www.indianexpress.com/storyOld.php?storyId=70297

To bust a few myths allow me to state the meaning of the much maligned word 'Dravida'. A word introduced by the British with little understanding which has gone on to become a divisive word. Dravida or 'Thravida' in Sanskrit means 'land bounded by three seas'. Its a word coined by Jagat Guru Adi Shankaracharya and his disciple Mandana Mishra to refer to themselves as Thravida Shishu or 'children of the lands bounded by the three seas' as they traveled the length and breadth of the country in their single minded pursuit of Sanatana Dharma revival and espousal of Advaita philosophy. With wicked intentions and half baked understanding of the Vedas, the British missionaries and educationists took it and used it as a race type to delineate south Indians from the rest of the country who by another flaw were called Aryans.

Today political parties like DMK and marxist scholars use this word to define all non Brahmins in the south. Its a irony that it was a Brahmin who coined it to refer to himself.

Another important element which shakes the very foundation of AIT is the the works of the Megasthenes the Ambassador of Alexander in the court of Emperor Chandragupta between 250 and 298 BC. I am surprised this book has not found mention or has not been used as a very valid hard hitting evidence against the AIT. At any rate, Megasthenes was a traveler and geographer who recorded his memoirs in his book called Indika. A book which went on to become a reference guide to great Greek historians and philosopher such as Arrian and Strabo. In later centuries a travelers guide, equivalent to today Lonely Planet.

In his book Indika Megasthenese minutely describes the people, customs, traditions, festivals, hair do, jewelery, attire, food, religion, laws, geography, fauna, flora and all other possible details which he encounters from the moment he entered India via Pentapotamia (five rivers) and traveled into the land of Magadha (Ayodhya and Bihar) from whence he traveled south as far as Madurai and Serendib (Lanka) and back up the western ghats to his embassy in Patliputra.

In his description of the people of India he clearly states that the people of India across its length and breadth are tall but light on their feet which means they are no bulky, dark skinned with long black hair which they tie in a bun on the top. All men have beards and shaving is not popular. Men and woman love jewelery of which there is abundance of all types which adorns hair, arms, wrists and ankles.

Now, if we look at the AIT theory it states that the so called large bodied, light eyed, blonde haired Aryans invaded India from the western passes via Afghanistan and settled mainly in the five river region and then slowly spread east and south controlling the lands and the people therein establishing a discriminatory rule. But if we analyse the description of Megasthenese it becomes evident that there is no evidence of such fair skinned, light eyed, blonde haired, size XL people. Given that in the intervening 1250 years since the arrival of the Aryans and Megasthenese's travel there was some racial intermingling causing some of these attributes to be diluted but even this defense is not justifiable because as new entrants the level of discrimination would be high and would not allow much intermingling. Secondly if these people were present even in some numbers lording over the dark skinned Indians then Megasthenese would not have failed to notice it and would have subjected it to much scrutiny and description even comparing their skin tone to his. But no such description was given in his entire travelogue.

From the above additional deduction that I have added to the thousands of others already existing that have torpedoed the AIT, its fair to assume (pun intended) that the AIT was nothing but figment of imagination of half baked British imperialist scholars. But then it leaves us with another puzzling question. Who are the fair skinned people residing in north west India, Pakistan and Afghanistan in current times.

To answer this we have to turn to Roman history and their conquest in Asia minor after 50 AD (i.e. Caspian Sea and middle east and present day Turkey region) and the advent of the Huns in 370 AD in central Asia and eastern Europe. Routed by the Romans, various tribes like Sarmatians, Bactrians, Scythians known as Shakas in India, Kushans and other lesser tribes hurtled headlong eastwards. While many dispersed and settled along the way many still arrived in India. Being animist or shamanic and probably having lesser developed customs and religious beliefs adopted Hinduism or Buddhism as the case was with Kanishka a Kushan King around 120 AD. Further still the Hunnic invasion of central Asia and eastern Europe in 370 AD set up a domino effect of tribal migration with a few tribes or remnants funneling into India. In fact medieval India called these fair skinned immigrants as 'Shweta Hunna' or white Huns. At any rate the current people residing in the north western part of the subcontinent are a recent addition, somewhere between AD 200 to AD 1400 or even later, arriving from their central Asian homelands as refugees and adopting Hindu religion, customs and belief systems. This explains the presence of fair skinned people in the north west of India than what the AIT purports. The mix was further complicated by the arrival of another wave of people the Arabs, Turks and the Mongols (Mughals).

And from this mix of population and with foggy ideas the half baked British and European scholars and missionaries schemed the Aryan Invasion Theory. Add to this the leftist Congress and Marxist scholars who use it to divide our people based on race, religion and region.

Thus the idea of AIT is as dead and dumb as a Dodo and now lets all get over this Aryan race theory. Because there was never a Aryan race and if someone is telling you this, then he has ulterior motives.

I will really appriciate if readers would leave their comments

Reference Material:

You can download the Indika by Megasthenes from the following link

http://2020ok.com/books/36/ancient-india-as-described-by-megasthenes-and-arrian-44836.htm

Also follow the following titles

In Search of the Cradle of Civilisation by David Frawley, Georg Feuerstein and Subhash Kak,

http://books.google.be/books?id=Ermk_FmwcS4C&lpg=PP1&ots=jKbzZPv3yP&dq=in%20search%20of%20the%20cradle%20of%20civilization&hl=en&pg=PA36#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Sarasvati River and the Vedic Civilization by NS Rajaram

Unfettering the Hindu mind - Part 1

Unfettering the Hindu mind – Part 1

"I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and 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 calibre, 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 self-culture and they will become what we want them, a truly dominated nation".

Lord McCauley in his speech of Feb 2, 1835, British Parliament

With the above quote as a backdrop, I have been struggling with the thought of starting this piece for many months but could not figure out how to make a beginning. The start is important here as the problem is multi faceted and has its roots buried deep in forgotten history. I say forgotten because that's what it was meant to be, forgotten and lost. This is an attempt to bring to light on what has gone wrong with how we Hindus perceive our religion, our history and civilisation which has been distorted by disinformation and deceit, spread through vested political interest.

The reason I have titled this ‘’unfettering’’ the Hindu mind is because it is my attempt to break the chains of bondage which has wedded us to ignorance and has kept us away from knowing our true identity and why we are so refreshingly and positively different from the rest of the world. Its is important that we take pride in our civilisation, in our history, in our religion, in our cultural and social achievements and acknowledge the contribution made to science, medicine and the fine arts and in every other walk of human life from time immemorial by our ancestors and carry forward this legacy bequeathed to us and not let others with vested interest deceive us. 

The systematic dilution and erasure of Hinduism and our Vedic civilisation with its accumulated wealth of wisdom in every sphere and replacing it with lies and distortions programmed to ensure the enslavement of the Hindu mind by spreading false propaganda against the Hindu people, culture, civilisation and their belief system was started during the British rule of India under McCauley. For the uninitiated, McCauley is the person who proposed and then implemented the current education system and the overall philosophy of the teaching methodology and approach, through its vast network of schools, educational institutions, government and missionary organisations. The opening quote will give the reader an idea of his intentions. The idea was to completely and totally undermine and subvert India’s Vedic past, its teachings and its philosophy to such an extent that it was even made to seem alien to India. Nothing Indian or Hindu was good and was cast out as obscurantist, redundant, superstitious belief systems - relics from another age with no relevance in the modern world. This is what were and are still being taught, completely deceiving and subduing impressionable minds.

Why would anyone go to such an extent to create such a elaborate hoax, to deny people the truth?

To rule one needs a subservient population, people who can be influenced and controlled. To rule a foreign land and people completely different in race, religion, philosophy and way of life, this subservience had to be turned into enslavement, the conquered cannot be allowed to have even a shred of pride in what ever they and their belief system stand for and this can be achieved only by denying the people their glorious past, their history, their achievements.The over riding desire and objective behind this was to perpetuate the British rule in India for ever.

With the above premise in mind, when the apparent strength of the Hindu philosophy and its people and the superior Vedic past and the comparative insignificance of their own history and achievements dawned on the British, it became apparent to them that the only way to perpetuate their rule was suppress this knowledge. The conquered cannot be acknowledged as a superior civilisation in any which way. For the British revelation of the truth would make their rule untenable in such a vast and complex country.

We are told that the time can never come when the natives of India can be admitted to high civil and military office. We are told that this is the condition on which we hold our power. We are told that we are bound to confer on our subjects every benefit - which they are capable of enjoying? No; which it is in our power to confer on them? No; but which we can confer on them without hazard to the perpetuity of our own domination. 

Lord McCauley in his Government of India Speech on July 10, 1833 in the British House of Commons

How do we educate people to serve us but not reveal the ‘’truth’’ was the dilemma facing the British administrators. The problem was increasingly becoming complex and magnified as more and more people in India were educating themselves encouraged by the British to fill up positions in the vast administration and education system. To ensure that this vast educated class at some point in time in the future armed with the ‘’truth’’ does not become a van guard in a rebellion, the British resorted to the ‘’distort, divide and rule’’ policy of which they were past masters, only this time it was an attack on the very soul of India and its people. A program was initiated to rewrite Indian political and religious history in a way  that people were divided by race and religion, caste and region.

We are to teach false History, false Astronomy, false Medicine, because we find them in company with a false religion. ....And while we act thus, can we reasonably and decently bribe men out of the revenues of the state to waste their youth in learning how they are to purify themselves after touching an ass, or what text of the Vedas they are to repeat to expiate the crime of killing a goat? We are a Board for wasting public money, for printing books which are of less value than the paper on which they are printed was while it was blank; for giving artificial encouragement to absurd history, absurd metaphysics, absurd physics, absurd theology.
  

Lord McCauley in his Government of India Speech on July 10, 1833 in the British House of Commons

The new education system that was created for the above purpose, portrayed India and Indians as primitive and backward with only a history of invasions starting with the Aryans to the Muslims to the British justifying in the process that India belongs to no one in particular and no one can claim it as theirs originally. It was propagated that Hindus are called weak and Brahmins foreign and part of a white skinned Aryan race who settled in the north west and eventually created the caste systems to subdue the original dark skinned Indians. Hinduism was portrayed as a abomination full of superstition and redundant rituals and archaic practices, falsely glorifying Islam and the erstwhile Muslim rulers, exaggerating Islamic contribution to India and Indian culture. Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism were delineated as a separate religions and racial groups. Many other such distortions and lies were spread through schools and other academic books to enslave the hitherto proud Hindus and paint them into a corner by making them the cause of all the evils of the society, prop up the Muslims and Islam with a false sense of glory, break the strong brotherhood of Hindu sects in separate religions and above all break up the Hindu society on caste lines and pit them against each other.    

Sadly, today we still carry forward this self denigration of our religion, history and civilisation, a legacy of the British colonisers through a education and administration system established by them, perpetuated by Marxist historians and pseudo-secular academicians funded by Nehruvian politicians to cloud and confuse young unsuspecting Hindu minds with lies.

Its time we collectively endeavour to attain the truth for ourselves and for the future generations because in truth is where we will be secure and strong. Else we will become a nation, rudderless and disoriented with no sense of pride in our religion, culture and civilisation allowing everything to be eroded away by the waves of false propaganda and disinformation which gain ground in every minute of inaction on our part.

“We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.”

Swami Vivekananda