Aryan Invasion Theory - Publication - Vivekananda Kendra

VIVEKANANDA KENDRA PATRIKA
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ARYAN INVASION THEORY
scriptures, not one, to prove that the Aryans ever came from anywhere outside
India.... The whole of India is Aryan, nothing else.” He further stated very clearly:
“Such words as Aryans and Dravidians are only of philological import, the so-called
craniological differentiation finding no solid ground to work upon.” Any theory
worth its salt should provide clarity of vision. But not so the Aryan race concepts.
Swami Vivekananda correctly pointed out that they instead provide only “a lot of
haze, created by a too adventurous Western philology”,
Today the tools of science have changed. Today it is not “craniological differentiation”
but nucleotide markers in Y-chromosomes. And still what Swami Vivekananda stated
remains true. The nucleotide markers emphatically reject any invasion from outside
India. Archeologists again and again state that they fail to trace any movement or
invasion into India. They even speak of cultural continuities for more than five
thousand years with no invasion based break in that continuity. All these along with
the destructive and divisive nature of the race theory should have laid Aryan Invasion
theory in the coffin along with geo-centric theory and creationism.
Yet strangely we see the Aryan Invasion theory being used axiomatic in the
establishments of social studies, particularly where it concerns India. It is as if heliocentric
worldview is accepted for the rest of the world while geo-centrism continues
to be taught in India. Any attempt to change this baseless irony played on the Indian
mind is resisted by powerful vested interests.
So in this Kendra Patrika, we have compiled various articles, research papers etc.
by experts in different fields, on the topic of Aryan invasion theory. These facts
which exist in the world of academicians should enter into the public psyche of
Indian people. Then the farce of Aryan-Dravidian divide can be done away with.
We conclude with the words of Swami Vivekananda:
As for us Vedântins and Sannyâsins, ore are proud of our Sanskritspeaking
ancestors of the Vedas; proud of our Tamil-speaking ancestors
whose civilization is the oldest yet known; we are proud of our Kolarian
ancestors older than either of the above — who lived and hunted in
forests; we are proud of our ancestors with flint implements — the
first of the human race; and if evolution is true, we are proud of our
animal ancestors, for they antedated man himself. We are proud that
we are descendants of the whole universe, sentient or insentient. Proud
that we are born, and work, and suffer — prouder still that we die
when the task is finished and enter forever the realm where there is no
more delusion.
-Editorial Team