History Forum / General / General Topics / February 2008

Aryan invasion story 'a western myth'

By Surendra Ullal
India Post News Service
INDIA POST
Sunday, February 17, 2008

Chicago - An eminent Indologist and a visiting professor at
the University of Houston, Dr Pramod Pathak has challenged
the basis of age old theory perpetrated by Western scholars
about the invasion by Aryans in India and of driving the
Dasuys South ward.Talking to the media in Chicago, Dr
Pathak said that his study and research revealed that the
Aryan invasion theory is a myth and it is perpetuated by
the English scholars from the time of their invasion of
India in the 17th century. The British regime fabricated
the history of India to suit their motive to establish and
perpetuate their political, social and religions
institutions in India.

They would succeed in their nefarious game because they had
both the political power and opportunity to misguide the
Indian people. It is now an accepted historical fact that
Max Muller promoted the invasion theory and accordingly
formulated the dates of Vedic origin and the differences in
Aryan and Dravidian cultures so that English rulers could
divide the societies bringing out the issues of race and
color. Max Muller, according to historians was a British
employee, specially appointed to rewrite the history of
India.

This becomes obvious as one refers to Lord McCauley, who
wrote that in order to perpetuate the English rule and
institutions in India they should "produce such a group of
people, who would be Indian in blood and color, but English
in taste, opinion and intellect."Explaining the genesis of
the subject, he said that when he was working for his Ph.D.
thesis he came across the hymn II.34 in the Atharva Veda in
praise of the God Pashupati. It praises the Lord of beasts
- Pashupati, who historians later considered as the master
of quadruped and bipeds.

He immediately correlated it with the famous Pashupati seal
form the Indus Culture and presented a paper in the
Archaeological conference, which was well received. It
appeared that the seal was pictorial representation of the
AV hymn II.34. It led him to consider the possibility that
followers of Atharva Veda were part of the Indus culture.
Dwelling further on this aspect he continued to observe
that in the Rigveda there were conflicting entities, namely
Aryans and Dasas. Rig-Vedic hymns describe that Indra
destroyed ninety-nine "pur"s of Dasas.

These "pur"s are described as "ayasi" i.e.
metallic.According to the current and prevailing views,
Aryans invaded India, destroyed the culture there and
established their hegemony. Their main enemies were the
"Dasa" people. Dr Pathak said, "I had the opportunity to
study the Indo-Iranian texts. These texts mention people
called "Daha", "Dahae" or Dasa. These Daha people belonged
to the southern part of Iran. I then came across references
to the tribe called "Dahamarda" stayingin the Seistan
province of Afghanistan.

Their villages were named as "Deh" i.e. "Desha" and name of
one village was "Dah bashi Deh". It is fully Sanskrit
origin name i.e. "Dasa Bhashi Desha". It raised doubts as
to whether the enemies of the Aryans were in India or in
South Afghanistan.Further studies in the environment of
Afghanistan revealed that very intense winds blow in
Afghanistan for four months.

These are known as "Bad-isad-o-bist". According to some
Iranian sources this name is of Sanskrit origin. "Bad" is
"Vata" i.e. wind, " Sad" is Shata and "bista" is "vimshati"
i.e. twenty. All that meant winds of hundred and twenty
days i.e. exactly the four months. These winds have
resulted in great erosion of the landscape in the deserts
of central and south western Afghanistan and created
thousands of small circular butts or hillocks formed due to
wind erosion.

These are capped with stone cover of red stones, called
Suhr-da-Gall i.e. red earth in local language. There was an
excellent paper by Wilhelm Rau "Meaning of Purs in the
Vedic literature". He concluded that Vedic "Pur"s do not
represent well laid cities of Indus but were temporary
shelters made of stones. All this information fitted so
well to confirm that Dasas of the Rig-Vedic lore were the
people from Seistan, Afghanistan.

Their temporary bastions were the "Pur"s destroyed by Indra
as mentioned the Vedas. These evidences greatly changed my
opinion, which I had learnt as a student and even after. So
the idea that Aryans invaded India and enslaved local
people, whom they called Dravidians were definitely
preplanned and perpetrated on the Indian subjects by the
British rulers with ulterior motives of advancing their
interest of promoting their own religious and educational
values, said Dr Pramod Pathak.Dr Parhak is a Visiting
Professor at the University of Houston and conducted
courses on History and Culture of India.

He is the founder member of the Mahatma Gandhi Library at
Houston and invited lecturer at the interfaith meets and
Unity Church at Houston. He has written eight books and
several research articles on the Vedic and Ideological
topics and on Ramayana. He is an expert on the Indus
culture seals and has given interpretations of these.He
studied the history of Ancient Afghanistan and wrote a book
"The Afghan Connection" based on these studies.

It deals with pre-Buddhist ethno-archaeology of
Afghanistan. The idea that Sanskrit was an alien language
and a Central Asian Race (Aryan) invaded India and brought
with them their language, Sanskrit was promoted by Western
scholars in order to show that Aryans were also invaders
like Greeks, Huns, Arabs, Mughals and later English and
Europeans.

They wanted to deny that India from time immemorial was
called, "Aryavart". Its inhabitants were called Aryas and
the ancient borders of India extended up to Iran. So the
ancient Iranians continue to called themselves as Aryans.
The details of these and many other findings on the Vedic
entities are to be found in his book, "The Afghan
Connection".

Surendra Ullal

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