Swami Vivekananda on false notions of caste, (The Myth of Aryan Invasion Theory)

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David Frawley, a well-known Vedic scholar, runs the American Institute

of Vedic Studies in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is also a famed Ayurveda

doctor. Those interested in this subject may refer to his book "Gods,

Sages and Kings: Vedic Secrets of Ancient Civilization".

His newest book on this topic is: "In Search Of The Cradle Of

Civilization". His beautiful book illuminating selected mystical

mantra~verses of the Rig Veda is: "Wisdom Of The Ancient Seers:

Mantras Of The Rig Veda".

 

The Myth of the Aryan Invasion of India

 

By David Frawley {Pundit Vamadeva Shastri}

 

One of the main ideas used to interpret and generally devalue the

ancient history of India is the theory of the Aryan invasion.

According to this account, India was invaded and conquered by nomadic

light-skinned Indo-European tribes from Central Asia around 1500-100

BC, who overthrew an earlier and more advanced dark-skinned Dravidian

civilization from which they took most of what later became Hindu

culture. This so-called pre-Aryan civilization is said to be evidenced

by the large urban ruins of what has been called the "Indus valley

culture" (as most of its initial sites were on the Indus river). The

war between the powers of light and darkness, a prevalent idea in

ancient Aryan Vedic scriptures, was thus interpreted to refer to this

war between light and dark skinned peoples. The Aryan invasion theory

thus turned the "Vedas", the original scriptures of ancient India and

the Indo-Aryans, into little more than primitive poems of uncivilized

plunderers.

 

This idea totally foreign to the history of India, whether north or

south has become almost an unquestioned truth in the interpretation of

ancient history Today, after nearly all the reasons for its supposed

validity have been refuted, even major Western scholars are at last

beginning to call it in question.

 

The entire book is available at:

 

http://www.hindubooks.org/david_frawley/