Mohan
Did you know what Aryan meant or did you throw out a wild guess??
here's something you will enjoy...
There never was any "Aryan" invasion of India, nor
any "Aryan"-"Dravidian" war. The term "Arya" meant
good, referring to quality of behavior, not race.
Likewise "dasyu" referred to misconduct, not another
race. The Rig Veda was composed not in 1200
B.C.; it was completed in 3700 B.C. The cradle of
civilization is not Sumeria in Mesopotamia, but the
Sapta Sindhu, the land of seven rivers, in northwest
India. From the densely populated Sapta Sindhu,
Sanskrit-speaking people migrated to Iran, Greece,
and further West.
The "standard" textbooks on early Indian history are
an example of the adage that history books are
written to reflect the views of the conqueror. In the
late eighteenth century, when many Sanskrit classics,
were first translated into contemporary European
languages, they drew great admiration from Europe's
major intellectual luminaries like Voltaire, Goethe,
and Hegel. For example, G.W. F. Hegel wrote that
India was"the starting-point for the whole Western
world." Later, in the nineteenth century, the same
Hegel dismissed the Puranas chronologies as
fabrications and generally disparaged Indian history.
Why this reversal? Nineteenth century European
imperialism distorted European perceptions and
brought forth racist attitudes. The colonized people
and their culture came to be seen as inferior. Hegel's
reversal exemplifies this changed perception.
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