Excerpts from the book Sarasvati River and the Vedic Civilisation by NS Rajaram Part 3

Indology, a colonial euphemism to subvert Indian history, culture and civilisation

 

Much of what Indian students learn today about ancient India derives from it. Most of us Indians were brought up to believe that the western scholars beginning with Sir William Jones and his discovery of Sanskrit, culminating in the work of the Anglo German F. Max Muller, a forgotten figure in Europe but revered in India as a paragon of virtue promoted by the German govt. via the Max Muller bhavans all over India.

To understand how the current notions about ancient India and its Aryan creators were discovered, we need to go back to the Calcutta Judge Sir William Jones in the eighteenth century. He recorded that Indian languages especially Sanskrit was related to European languages and to account for this F. Max Muller ‘later’ proposed the Aryan invasion theory. Other factors that promoted or readily accepted this version were colonial politics and Christian missionary interests.

Max Muller assigned a date for the invasion as 1500 BC and 1200 BC for the composition of the Rigveda. The reason for this firm belief unsupported by any archaeological evidence was the Biblical chronology that assigned 9:00 am 23^rd October 4004 BC for the creation of the world and 2448 BC for the Noah’s flood. Max Muller’s facility with the Vedas and the Sanskrit language was likened by the great Dayanand Saraswati to a “toddler learning to walk”.   

Indology gave the British a platform to build theories to justify their rule in India as reunited Aryan brothers who were working to uplift them.

Ref: Sarasvati and the Vedic Civilisation by NS Rajaram

Note: Also refer to a scene in the movie Gandhi that aptly portrays this sentiment where Richard Attenborough subtly shows how flawed this theory was via a ‘silent’ rebuttal by Gandhi, which embarrasses British bureaucrats present during the negotiations. The entire scene was created to admit that the Aryan invasion was a British colonial concoction.

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_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/2010/12/ancient-indian-history-retrofitted-into.html 

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

Why does the west mistake Indian nationalism with Nazism and Fascism?

The western mind is coloured by the tragedy and problems it faced 65 years back with Fascist and Nazis and after a great struggle have managed to get themselves rid of these elements. If this has been good or bad for them is something only time will tell.

But the problem this poses for other countries especially India is that these westerners try to foist their sense of righteousness and political correctness upon us. They equate Indian nationalism (Hindutva) with Nazis and Fascist, completely forgetting the context, place and people.

Funnily the so called pseudo seculars in India living in their air conditioned ivory towers are towing this line completely forgetting this is not post war, traumatized Europe but India, where the people differ, history differs and above all culture and religion differs. Even more amusing is that these so called seculars are 20% Hindus and 80% non Hindus posing as Hindus who have no idea of Hindu religious philosophy and history. If they call Hindutva a Fascist ideology then they have no clue of what secularism is in the first place. People in India should leave them alone to their maniacal conspiracy theories and not give them importance.  

I urge the west to remove these coloured lenses and apply their intellectualism that they pride themselves upon more openly to broaden their horizons on problems people in India face and the subversion that is happening of the Hindu culture, partly imported from Europe and America by way of christian conversion programs and partly from Saudi Arabia by way of rabid terrorist wahabi ideology.