Tearing Down the Aryan Invasion Myth

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• Foreword by Nilesh Oak

About the book :

The Aryan Invasion Theory is primarily about language, not migration. It is a story that was invented by European linguists to show how language was brought to India by invaders called Aryans, who defeated a local group that European scholars of the 19th century considered an inferior race, whom they named “Dravidians”.

About 200 years ago, no Indian was claiming that he was of Aryan descent or of Dravidian descent. No Indian needed to ask why his language was similar to other Indian languages. Indians were aware that their languages dated back to very ancient times. A large proportion of Indians knew that their language was derived from Sanskrit. Others in the South spoke languages with copious Sanskrit-derived words and grammar and were comfortable with that, and did not claim that Sanskrit was an alien language imposed by intruders. However, the story in Europe was that although all European languages seemed different, scholars knew that they had some similarities, though no one knew how or why. This lasted until Europeans came to India and learned Sanskrit.

Suddenly, from Sanskrit, Europeans discovered how and why European languages were so similar. But among scholarship in Europe, from the 18th century, right up to the 20th century, there was uniform skepticism and reluctance to believe that a well developed language like Sanskrit could have originated in India among people who were, in those days, not considered to be of the right skin colour or race. So a series of arguments and artificial constructs were made to fix a date for Sanskrit or a precursor language to Sanskrit that could somehow be shown to have European origins.

A story was created that a technologically superior race called Aryans created a super-language that spread all over Europe and Asia. It is imagined that Aryans originated in an area somewhere between Europe and Asia and fanned out like spokes of a wheel riding on chariots pulled by horses, conquering and imposing their language on Europe.

ISBN : 978-8194868811 ; Subbu Publications ;

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