Aryan Invasion of India
The ancient history of India is the theory of the Aryan invasion. 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 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 . The war between the powers of light and darkness, a prevalent idea in ancient Aryan Vedic scripture. The Indus valley culture was pronounced pre-Aryans for several reasons that were largely part of the cultural milieu of nineteenth century European thinking as scholars following Max Muller had decided that the Aryans came into India around 1500 BC, since the Indus valley culture was earlier than this, they concluded that it had to be pre Aryan. This placed the beginning of the world at 400 BC and the flood around 2500 BC it became difficult to get the Aryans in India before 1500 BC the present population of Gujarat is composed of more or less the same ethnic groups as are noticed at Lethal in 2000 BC. Similarly, the present population of the Punjab is said to be ethnically the same as the population of Harappa and Rupert 4000 years ago. There are many points in fact that prove the Vedic nature of the Indus Valley culture. Further excavation has shown that the great majority of the sites of the Indus Valley culture were east, not west of Indus in fact, the largest concentration of sites appears in an area of Punjab and Rajasthan near the dry banks of ancient Sara Swati and Drishadvati rivers. The Vedic culture was said to have been founded by the sage Manu between the banks of Sara Swati and Drishadvati rivers. Vedic and late Vedic texts also contain interesting astronomical lore. The Vedic calendar was based upon astronomical sightings of the equinoxes and solstices. Such texts as ' Vedanta Jotas ' speak of a time when the vernal equinox was in the middle of the Nastran Alisha or about 23 degrees 20 minutes Cancer. This gives a date of 1300 BC. The Your Veda and Atbara Veda' speak of the vernal equinox in the Kittitas Pleiades early Taurus and the summer solstice Anaya in Magma early Leo Such references were merely ignored or pronounced unintelligible by Western scholars because they yielded too early a date for the Vedas than what they presumed not because such references did not exist. Hence a pattern of ignoring literary evidence or misinterpreting them to suit the Aryan invasion idea became prevalent even to the point of changing the meaning of Vedic words to suit this theory. They prove that the Vedic culture existed at these periods and already had a sophisticated system of astronomy. Such references were merely ignored or pronounced unintelligible by Western scholars because they yielded too early a date for the 'Vedas' than what they presumed, not because such references did not exist. It was assumed by these scholars many of whom were also Christian missionaries unsympathetic to the Vedas that the Vedic culture was that of primitive nomads from Central Asia. Hence they could not have founded any urban culture like that of the Indus valley. The only basis for this was a rather questionable interpretation of the ' Rig Veda ' that they made, ignoring the sophisticated nature of the culture presented within it. Meanwhile, it was also pointed out that in the middle of the second millennium BC, a number of Indo-European invasions apparently occurred in the Middle East, wherein Indo-European peoples the Hittites, Mit tan and Kisses conquered and ruled Mesopotamia for some centuries. An Aryan invasion of India would have been another version of this same movement of Indo European peoples. On top of this, excavators of the Indus valley culture, like Wheeler, thought they found evidence of destruction of the culture by an outside invasion confirming this. There are many points in fact that prove the Vedic nature of the Indus Valley culture. Further excavation has shown that the great majority of the sites of the Indus Valley culture were east not west of Indus. In fact, the largest concentration of sites appears in an area of Punjab and Rajasthan near the dry banks of ancient Sara Swati and Drishadvati rivers. The Vedic culture was said to have been founded by the sage Manu between the banks of Sara Swati and Drishadvati rivers. The Sara Swati is lauded as the main river naditama in the 'Rig Veda' & is the most frequently mentioned in the text. The Vedic culture was said to have been founded by the sage Manu between the banks of Sara Swati and Drishadvati rivers. The Vedic culture was said to have been founded by the sage Manu between the banks of Sara Swati and Drishadvati rivers. Hence the Vedic people were well acquainted with this river and regarded it as their immemorial homeland.
