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VIVEKANANDA KENDRA PATRIKA ARYAN INVASION THEORY VOL-II Editorial Vivekananda Kendra Patrika Vol.40 No.2, 80 th Issue ARYAN INVASION THEORY -FABRICATIONS AND FALLOUTS- VOLUME TWO Moving Beyond Invasion and Race… In this second volume on ‘Aryan Invasion Theory’ we explore the theme under three major headings. In the first we see how three great seers of India rejected the Aryan race/invasion theory. They are Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo and Baba Saheb Ambedkar. Even as the whole academicia was accepting the race theories propounded by the Western scholars, these three original thinkers rejected the race theory of studying the Indian population. They did that not out of blind faith but through original research and studies of Indic literature from Indic point of view. The first section thus presents the view of the founding figures of Indian nation in the modern age. Naturally a question may arise. How far can the observations of these great men be considered as empirically correct and scientifically valid? Our next section answers this question. Of course ancient past is a deep mystery. Many times we make conjectures. But today science is offering us wonderful tool to test any conjectures we may make. With the help of archaeology and linguistics, scholars probe into the past. And in the post-colonial milieu scholars with their minds unfettered, discover that the colonial myths get shattered with every archaeological dig and every linguistic reconstruction. Perhaps the myth of Sanskrit and Tamil emerging from the two sides of Siva’s drum may hold a more fundamental truth than all the colonial scholarly 3
VIVEKANANDA KENDRA PATRIKA ARYAN INVASION THEORY VOL-II constructions put together. Aryan invasion model itself has mutated into something called ‘Aryan migration model’. Its nevertheless only old wine in old bottle with a new label. A scholarly look into the claims of this model also makes the model crumble into dust. Then there is molecular genetics which provides a very interesting tool to look into the deep ancestry of humanity. And painstaking reconstruction of the past by archaeologists, geneticists and linguists again show us that nothing called Aryan invasion or migration ever happened in India’s past. In fact there was no such thing as ‘Aryan race’ at all. If so wrong, and if so completely proved wrong, then why does the Aryan Invasion Theory still persist in the common psyche? This is the most important question we need to ask. Is there a vested interest, which has political and religious dimensions, in promoting this unscientific colonial race theory? Are there sinister forces at work which want to create racial faultlines in India’s common psyche so that they can be later used to create full blown civil wars? What shall be the logical extension of Aryan race theory if applied to present Indian society? Who will benefit if India’s caste conflicts are projected as racial wars rooted in ancient history? Such a horrific scenario that unfolds, reminds us why this Aryan race theory needs to be combatted at all levels. We need to show every Indian that India is one. Whatever language, creed or social group to which he or she may belong, India is spiritually one. The unity of a nation is not racial or linguistic or political. It is deeply spiritual and cultural. India in that sense is one nation. In India all spiritual traditions in the world have found a nurturing space. Even the long destroyed pagan cultures of Europe and the spiritual traditions of South America and Africa, can find in the cultural and spiritual elements of India, a validation. To deconstruct such a nation with the help of a colonial pseudo-scientific myth like ‘Aryan race theory’ is not just an exercise in futility but an injustice to human civilization itself. So through this Kendra Patrika we again dedicate ourself to the grand vision of Indian seers who, as Kabir said, embrace the whole universe as their Benaras and declare that from pole to pole humanity is of one blood and that all human made divisions are artificial. S.Aravindan Neelakandan VKP Editorial Team 4
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