Mohan:
I thought this book was a novel written by some Indian living in Canada or something, is it not? RETURN OF THE ARYANS BY BHAGWAN S. GIDWANI.
You are right. It is a novel. With the material available on this whole Aryan thing, Gidwani has woven the only available measly particles of information into a novel form. It is fiction, but not falsehood, according to him. The novel is based on dates, deeds, & doubts about Aryans.
He believes, based on circumstantial evidence, that Sanskrit went out from India with Aryans to other lands and enriched their languages. He does believe that Sanskrit is partly the mother tongue of the European languages.
As an evidentiary piece of information or lack thereof, he says that if Aryans came from foreign lands, there is no mention of those lands in Vedas, Upanishads, epics and other Aryan literature. He seems to imply that the Europeans, when they found a superior civilization in India, had to somehow weave the history in such way that they become full participants in the Indian civilization. Hence the words such as IndoEuropean languages etc.
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