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<strong>H<strong>in</strong>duism</strong>: <strong>What</strong> <strong>Really</strong> Happened <strong>in</strong> <strong>India</strong> – M. M. N<strong>in</strong>an<br />

God either monotheistic or pantheistic or of any other form, it is<br />

<strong>H<strong>in</strong>duism</strong>!<br />

I am sure if the British came and lived <strong>in</strong> <strong>India</strong> as they did <strong>in</strong> America<br />

and took it as their country; they too would have been assimilated and<br />

would have been <strong>India</strong>ns. We have the Anglo <strong>India</strong>ns with us and they<br />

are as much <strong>India</strong>ns as any other. Just as the presence of the Anglo-<br />

<strong>India</strong>ns among us <strong>in</strong>dicates the reality of British Invasion of <strong>India</strong>, the<br />

presence of an Aryan North <strong>in</strong> contrast to Dravidian South is evidence<br />

enough to <strong>in</strong>dicate the <strong>in</strong>vasion of Aryans from somewhere North of<br />

<strong>India</strong>.<br />

While I see no reason to doubt the obvious reality of Aryans enter<strong>in</strong>g<br />

<strong>India</strong> from Persia than the reverse, whether Aryans came from outside of<br />

<strong>India</strong> or developed from with<strong>in</strong> <strong>India</strong> is not really critical to the thesis of<br />

this book. The current attempt to f<strong>in</strong>d Aryan sources with<strong>in</strong> <strong>India</strong> to<br />

boost nationalistic and political ethos is praiseworthy. But from the<br />

evidence presented, they are very weak. It rema<strong>in</strong>s that the religion of<br />

the Dravids (the Black) were not the same as the religion of the Aryans<br />

(The White). They orig<strong>in</strong>ated separately and they m<strong>in</strong>gled with each<br />

other due to a prolonged religio-political maneuver<strong>in</strong>g produced a<br />

syncretic religion along with the rest of the syncretic elements. The<br />

Pulayas and the Pariahs are the proof. Even as a high caste boy, I had<br />

always stood <strong>in</strong> awe at the religion and worship of these “untouchable<br />

outcastes” of my society who had neither temples nor idols.<br />

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