Historical truths about Indology

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I am sending from the Indic Traditions list,

Prof. Rajiv Malhotra's writing about the practice

of Indology. Any comments from Indology listers

will be appreciated by all in the list.

 

As one interested in Dravidian studies pursued by

Indologists, it will be nice to know from academic

viewpoints.

 

Regards,

N. Ganesan

 

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indictraditions, "Rajiv Malhotra" <rajiv.malhotra@a...>

wrote:

I am sending the email copied below to the newly formed

anti-defamation group called HICAD for their evaluation. It seems that

certain `Dalitistan', `Bahujan' and other anti-Hindu groups are

lobbying

aggressively to demonize Hinduism as Nazism.

 

The historical truths are as follows, but these are seldom understood

properly even by most educated Indians:

 

1. Europeans discovered Sanskrit in the 17th/18th century and got

very impressed by the high culture represented in its vast literature.

Given the similarities with European languages, the field of

linguistics

was born in Europe. For the first time, Europeans learnt the idea of

grammar and started to develop grammar for European languages. (Gary

Tubb

of Columbia has researched and found that the thesaurus was also an

idea

borrowed from Sanskrit, along with grammar.)

2. A common source language was postulated, named

Proto-Indo-European.

Since such a sophisticated contribution could not have come from a

`backward' people, it was assumed that PIE must be of European origin.

3. In the Sanskrit literature, `arya' means

nobility/sophistication

as an adjective. There is no `aryan' noun referring to a

race/ethnicity.

But in a subtle twist, the European Indologists assumed that some

`aryan'

people were the authors of this grand civilization they had discovered

in

India. Naturally, they had to be from Europe. Hence the Aryan Invasion

Theory was postulated and adopted without review or cross-examination.

4. This Aryanization of German identity filled a vacuum in

seeking the origins and essences of Germans. This was in vogue in

Europe

at that time. Italians were secure about identity given the Roman

history

as to their origins. French had their history, etc. German

nation-building

from a collection of feudalistic warring states got a shot in the arm

from

this new theory of race in which they became postulated as the

original

`Aryans', now spelled with a capital `A' for the first time.

5. It was then concluded that India had deteriorated from its

Aryan origins into `Hinduism' – that is why so often books today

depict

Hinduism as being of recent origin whereas Vedas as German imports

into India

are shown as earlier.

6. This Aryanized German identity had a complex history that

culminated in the rise of the Nazis. They misappropriated the swastika

and

other `arya' ideas to boost themselves.

7. This was one of the instances of my theory of appropriation

while demonizing the source.

 

But today, given the vacuum from Indians' lack of understanding of all

this, some groups have used this Nazi misappropriation to depict as

though

Indic traditions were to blame for Nazism. PLEASE READ THE POST BELOW

AS

THIS DISTORTAION IS WHAT IS BEING SPREAD. I request that HICAD

approach

Jewish scholars proactively.

 

Rajiv

 

 

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Thomas Mountain <brotom@l...>

dalit <dalit > ; Bahujan

<Bahujan> ; llhamlin@b...

<llhamlin@b...> ; andwele@p...

<andwele@p...>

Sunday, April 29, 2001 10:58 PM

[bahujan-forum] Nazism: Its Brahmanic Origin

 

 

> Nazism - Its Brahmanic Origin

>

> by Kalimuthu Dhanasekaran

>

>

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> The Vedas are veriably a fountain of poison that has periodically

>infested the veins world with its dangerous dogmas. Ramaite

apartheid,

>Kautilyan totalitarianism and Brahmanic Fascism are some of the

>deadly venom that Hinduism has spewed forth onto the world. Nazism is

>another such deadly scourge invented by the Brahminist Vaishnavas

that

>has devastated the world. The Nazis adopted all their fundamental

>dogmas from Hinduism. Besides the swastika, the Nazis adopted the

Vedic

>concepts of the superiority of the Aryan race and of course,

apartheid.

>Some of the more famous Indian Nazis are described below :

>

> Madame Blavatsky -

>

> The origin of Nazism can be traced back directly to Madame Blavatsky

>and her Theosophical Society. Madame Blavatsky propounded the notion

>of the superiority of the Aryan race, an idea derived from Vedic

>concepts of varnashramadharma (apartheid). These were then used by

the

>Thule Society in Germany, which was the direct precursor of the

National

>Socialist Party.

>

> Savitri Devi -

>

> She was born Maximiani Portas. 30 Sept. 1905 in Lyon, France, of

>Greek and English parents. There she studied chemistry and gained a

>doctorate in Letters. Travelling widely in Europe and Asia, mastering

>7 languages, including Bengali, her desire to uncover the lost

knowledge

>of the Aryans led her to India in 1932. She took the name Savitri

Devi

>in honour of the Indo-Aryan Sun goddess, and married a Brahman Aryan

>Sri Asit Krisna Mukherji, who was editor of a pro-Axis Magazine, `The

New

>Mercury'.

>

> Savitri Devi [ Savitri ] was an ardent admirer of Hitler, and

>considered him an incarnation of God Vishnu. Hitler would have been a

>good addition to the likes of Fascist Ram, who slaughtered thousands

of

>innocent Dravidians, and Krishna the Killer, who was responsible for

>the Mahabharat War. This Anglo-Brahmin (remember her parents were

>Greco-English ) settled in India, and played a great role in the

spread

>of Nazism from Anglo-Brahminist Occupied India to Germany.

>

> In a 1980 article "Hitlerism & the Hindu World" published, in The

>National Socialist, Savitri explained the basis of Esoteric Hitlerism

>and related some of her experiences with the Hindus during the war.

>Quoting Ramana Maharishi, "one of the greatest spiritual

personalities

>of modern India", the sage's reply to a question on Hitler was that

> "He is a gnani" . Here is thus an unequivocal connection between the

>Hindu fanatic Maharishi and Hitler. This `gnani', Devi explains, is a

>sage, one who is fully conscious through personal experience "of the

>eternal truths that express the Essence of the Universe." [ Nexus ]

>Indeed, Hitler's extermination of Semitic Jews was merely a later

>re-enactment of the Vedic Hindu-Aryan extermination of `Asuras'

(Assyrians)

> and `Panis' (Phoenicians).

>

> Savitri Devi wrote, elaborating the Hindu origin of Nazism [ Nexus ]

-

>

> "Well did von Sebottendorff, founder of the famous Thule Society owe

>a lot to his visits to India and his contacts with the Hindus

conscius

>of their Hyperborean traditions."

> Of course, the most visible sign betraying the Hindu origin of

>Nazism is the swastika -

>

> " Devi naturally saw great significance in Hitler's choice of the

>swastika as the symbol of NS; 'the visible link between Hitler and

>orthodox Hinduism' ". [ Nexus ]

> The Bengali Brahmin Asit Krishna Mukherji -

>

> Another Anglo-Brahmin colonialist responsible for the rise of Hindu

>Nazism was the White Bengali Brahmin Asit Krishna Mukherji.

A.K.Mukherji

>was an influential Indian Nazi, as described by Elst (Elst is himself

a

>virulent White Belgian neo-Hindu-Nazi) [ Elst ]:

>

> " [ T ]he Bengali scholar Dr. Asit Krishna Mukherji (ca.1898-1977)

>and his French-Greek wife Dr. Maximiani Portas (Lyon 1905- near

London

>1982) alias Savitri Devi Mukherji, had made the AIT itself the alpha

>and omega of their philosophy." He interpreted the Aryan Invasion and

>the racist verses in the Vedas as as the positive realization of the

>natural hierarchy between the races achieved by the conquering Nordic

>Aryans on the dark-skinned natives. This pandit was a "Brahmin

conscious

>of his distant Nordic roots" and he published a pro-Hitler paper, the

New

>Mercury, a truly Hitlerian paper,

> from 1935 until the British (deciding to over-ride the tremendous

> opposition from the Anglo-Brahmin lobby) closed it down in 1937. He

>was instrumental in establishing the links between the Axis

>representatives and the Congress Nazi-Hindutva leader Subhas Chandra

Bose,

>who formed a fascist Indian National Army (1943-45) under Facsist

>Japanese tutelage.

>

> Besides A.K.Mukherji, Bengal has produced many fascist Brahmins. For

> example, Bankim Chandra Chatterji, author of the communal `Bande

> Mataram'. There are many other supporters of Hitler in India, and it

>is only natural that Hindu fanatics should choose to emulate one who

>so closely followed the Vedas !

>

>

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> References

> [ Elst ] - ` Zydenbos vs. Rajaram: a Case Study in Aryan Invasion

Polemic'

> , by Koenraad Elst, Leuven (Belgium), 21 April 1999.

>

> [ Savitri ] - ` Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan

Myth,

> and Neo-Nazism' , by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke

>

> [ Nexus ] - `Priestess of Hitlerism: Savitri Devi' , The Nexus,

Realist

> Publications, Paraparaumu Beach, New Zealand.

>

> Notes to Electronic Edition

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