AIT in Indian school textbooks

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I was wondering whether the "Aryan Invasion Theory" is still being

widely taught in Indian history textbooks to explain the origins of

Hinduism? As everyone knows, AIT badly fails to explain a lot of

things. Is there any change in the past several years in school

textbooks, in terms of presenting alternate explanations which many

experts have come up with?

[Guest guest]

>From Bhakti Ananda Goswami

 

There have been some excellent papers discrediting the AIT, delivered

at the two World Association for Vedic Studies conferences. Despite

the fact that this old Anglo-Germanic racist fantacy has been

completely disproven, some exoteric and so-called esoteric Neo-Nazis

and Anglophiles still passionately cling to it. It is still current

among white supremacists on the far right here in the USA, and

interestingly enough, also on the extreme left, in the 'esoteric'

teachings of the so-called 'New Age Movement'. New Age occultism can

be traced to Theosophy-related racist Aryanism. This Aryanism is

still prominent in India, and in fact has gained tremendous

popularity world-wide under the guise of the New Age root-races idea,

UFO / Alien revelations and the old 'Ascended Masters' nonsense. The

Great White Brotherhood of the 'Masters' has re-packaged itself for

better public relations, but it is the same old Nazi thought-system.

 

The OXFORD DICTIONARY OF WORLD RELIGIONS, 1997, Edited by John

Bowker, still gives the AIT as if it were the undisputed 'Gospel'

truth of Indo-European history (p 95). 'None are so blind as those

who WILL not see'. Nazism is on the rise again. We had a

presidential candidate here in the USA who was circulating portions

of the Nazis' PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION in his national

campaign newspaper. I am glad to see a dialogue on this important

topic. Racist Aryanism is not dead, not gone or diminished in any

way. It has made huge advances globally, and 'morphed' into an

amazing variety of strange forms. I once collected redacted versions

of the PROTOCOLS from Japan (printed in English by Koreans claiming

to be Aryans) to Sri Lanka (Theosophists were distributing it), to

India (used against the 'Jew' Brahmins !), from Iran (Tablique

Movement anti-Israeli tracts),) and to New York City, where Black

Muslims considered themselves the Master Race, and the 'White Devils'

to have 'no soul' in a mirror-image of 'white' Aryanism ! Their

Protocols, as all others, identified the hated Jews / Semites as the

cause of all their problems.

 

Today the 'Global Conspiracy of the Jews' is accepted as fact by

thousands of greatly varied groups worldwide. Spreading exoterically

politically and religiously on the right (in the British Israel and

Christian Identity Movements etc,) and esoterically politically and

religiously on the left, it threatens human solidarity, justice and

peace everywhere. Racist Aryanism is not just an 'academic' subject

for scholarly debate. It is an agressive, powerful, present evil,

which must be countered from the most prestigious halls of academia

to the smallest one-roomed, mud-floored school-huts. I am glad to

see a dialogue on this very important topic. Hitler's board of

racist 'brahmins' appropriated pieces of India's Sacred Traditions to

serve their hateful ends. Others are continuing to do this today.

The Academic community should mount a global campaign against this

abominable abuse of India's history and sacred culture. Do any

Indology egroup members have the knowledge, resources and courage to

take on the Neo-Nazis, and restore 'ARYAN' to its proper use again?

 

 

 

 

INDOLOGY, piyush_123 wrote:

> I was wondering whether the "Aryan Invasion Theory" is still being

> widely taught in Indian history textbooks to explain the origins of

> Hinduism? As everyone knows, AIT badly fails to explain a lot of

> things. Is there any change in the past several years in school

> textbooks, in terms of presenting alternate explanations which many

> experts have come up with?