German Indologist Max Muller popularized the Aryan Invasion theory in 1853 CE. According to the Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT), propogated by the Westerners, northern India was invaded and conquered by nomadic, light-skinned race of a people called ‘Aryans’ who supposedly descended from some unknown land around 1,500 BCE. These invaders destroyed an earlier civilization of the people who lived in the Indus Valley and then imposed upon them their culture (Vedas) and language (Sanskrit)! These Indus Valley people were supposed to be Dravidian. This ‘Aryan Invasion Theory’ challenges the very basis of Vedic Indian culture and nationhood, by completely ignoring scriptural, historical and archaeological evidences.

For thousands of years the Hindus have looked upon the Vedas as the fountain-head of all our knowledge, culture, heritage and its existence. Even western and far eastern travelers who have documented their experiences during their prolonged stay in India have testified the importance of Vedic literature and its indigenous origin. Nowhere in any of the ancient Indian scriptures or epics or Puranas, is there any mention of Aryan migration or invasion or Aryan race.

A nomadic, barbaric horde of invaders just cannot produce the kind of pure and sublime wisdom of the highest order. Vedas preach a universal philosophy of harmony for the entire mankind. While wandering, these Europeans came to the Sapth-sindhu (Indus) civilization and were so much in awe with the richness of culture and knowledge of Indians, that they copied our ideas and (Sanskrit) language back to their homeland!

Though later, when Muller could not support his theory he recanted that Aryan meant only a linguistic family and never applied to a race, “If I were to look over the whole world to find out the country most richly endowed with all the wealth, power and beauty that nature can bestow, in some parts a very paradise on earth, it should point to India.”

But the damage was already done. The German political groups exploited this racial phenomenon to propagate the racial supremacy of the white people, which culminated in the holocaust of millions of innocent people.

Nowhere in the Sanskrit literature, the term Arya denoted a racial people. In Vedic literature, the real meaning of the word ‘ARYA’ is: gentleman, good-natured, righteous person, noble-man, and is often used like ‘Sir’ or ‘Shree’ before the name of a person like Aryaputra, Aryakanya, etc. In Ramayan (Valmiki), Rama is described as an Arya in the following words: (Aryah sarvasamashchaivah sadaiv priyadarshan) – who cared for the equality to all and was dear to everyone.

Excavations at Harappa and Mohenjo-daro

It is argued that in the excavations at Harappa and Mohenjo-daro the human skeletons found do prove that a large scale massacre had taken place at these townships by invading armies of Aryan nomads. Colin Renfrew, Prof. of Archeology at Cambridge, in his famous work, “Archeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins” and also Prof. GF Dales (Former head of department of South Asian Archaeology and Anthropology, Berkeley University, USA) in his “The Mythical Massacre at Mohenjo-daro”, Expedition Vol VI,3: 1964 state the following about this evidence:

“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. 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 armour, the smashed chariots and bodies of in 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.”

MS Elphinstone, first governor of Bombay Presidency, 1819-27, in his magnum opus, History of India, writes:

“…To say that it (Hinduism) 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 inhabitated 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.”

Origin of Siva-worship

The advocates of AIT argue that the inhabitants of Indus valley were Siva worshippers and that Siva cult is more prevalent among the South Indian Dravidians, therefore the habitants of Indus valley were Dravidians. But, was South India un-inhabitated prior to the pushing of the original population of Indus Valley? If not, who were the original inhabitants of South India, who accepted the newcomers from North without any hostility or fight?

Also, Shiva worship is not confined to South India only. Most important symbols of Shaivites are located in North India like Kashi, Kailash mountain, Kedarnath etc. There are passages in Rig Veda which mention Siva and Rudra and consider him an important deity. Indra himself is called Shiva several times in Rig Veda (2:20:3, 6:45:17, 8:93:3). So Siva is not a non-Vedic god.

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