#Aryan invasion theory

[metamatar]

here's some contextual reading on what the hindu right's recent fixations with history are by marxist historian irfan habib.

this is a layman's overview of the scientific discourses that hindutva seeks to discredit

[rrcraft-and-lore]

Okay, back to share this. Also, the Aryan invasion theory has been discarded by most experts who agree it was a migration and over time - not all at once.

The Indo-Aryan people DID migrate to India and slowly influenced, shaped, and led to the Vedic era after the Indus Valley Civilization ended.

What people don't realize is all these regions shown here were not monolithic and locked down in terms of migration, trade, or any of that. The old world traded A LOT. People migrated by land and sea. We have charts of the oceanic silk road trade routes

South Asia had a huge influence in South East Asia through the above mentioned ways, and so, believe it or not, yeah, people of all backgrounds got hinky and jiggy wit it (that's old people talk for the Gen Z's here - you'll get what it means when you're older) anyways, because of this South Asians are genetically really diverse which is cool and has led to all kinds of features that are all beautiful.

This is in part due to its location and natural wealth from agricultural possibilities to mineral riches and more.

It's had a rich/diverse population history over the ages, different migrations of people through it, and people engaging in endogamous practices which leads to the commonality of some kinds of features.

So you get both: wildly diverse and the common.

A great example of this is if you look up people from the Hunza Valley which is located in present day Pakistan in where you'll find folks with south asian features but also more european coloring in hair (up to ruddy blonde and red hair, yes) and lighter colored eyes. Random but related this is in part what led James Hilton, the writer behind the myth of Shangri-La, to come up with the place. It wasn't inspired by China, but what he had seen in the Hunza Valley

[shut-up-rabert]

Do you think the Aryan Invasion Theory is true? I watching Mahabharata (star plus) and they kept using Aryavarta which reminded me of the Aryan race that Hilter used and so I did a little research and obviously he had no idea what he was talking about but what I found on the theory was a bit unsettling. I always believed that Hinduism/Sanskrit/Vedas originated in India (Indus Valley) but this theory seems to have genetic research to support it and it set off my whole belief system and gave me an identity crisis for some reason

Well, I am not really big on this theory because it has zilch proof to it as far as I have seen, only theories.

A simplified take on the same is the Indian Express article on Rakhigarhi excavation.

Other than that, there was this lengthy India Today article on the same excavation that gave me a headache because it won’t go to the fucking point, but I suppose it is in favour of the theory? I don’t know man, it’s fucking long and I did not read it all, just understood that IVC people from 4500 were native and that apparently we have outsider DNA.

There is no proof of any migration other than those based on change in genetic make up, a more plausible theory of which I explain later.

The interesting thing is, that the said Aryan invasion Theory first pinned us to be central asians from 1500BC and now we are Iranian farmers. It completely ignores the fact that Indians have little genes in common with Europeans who we supposedly come from moreso with South Indians (and I mean much more, we have almost the same gene combination except a few), and seems as if the India today article, based on the same premise of “Aryans had this one gene (r1 to be more specific) common with Iranians that Indus people did not have” fails to realise that people from the northwest of Indian subcontinent can have common genes with the bordering land for other reasons aswell because no shit sherlock, people fuck💀

I mean, how else do you explain the much higher genetic connection to south indians?

Another factor they use for the theory is the simultaneous developement of modern day Hinduism and Zorastrianism, but that too can be chalked upto influence rather than migration, given that Hinduism is actually older by a little margin (oldest living religion) and for the theory to be true, the migration should have gone westward instead.

Heck, the influence thing can easily exclude the theory altogther, because Iran is close to what are now the areas of IVC, and them slowly influencing the culture during or after IVC when they became more civil, (in 4000BC) or us doing the same, or even intermixing of the two will make more sense than AIT.

The migration of these Aryans cannot be proven otherwise aswell because there lies no proof for same. Literally none. The archeologist in the India today article and few others uphold it yet are unable to prove it beyond circumstantial evidence that makes more sense when turned against the theory rather than its favour, like the Iranian thing I mentioned. It might also very well be a migration to eastwards in Hind from the western part, because the Vedas were written before the supposed “Vedic Aryan invaders” happened and they are clearly neither Monotheistic nor Tribal, and align more with the Indic religions, so I digress they came from Central Asia or Iran.

Plus, the Vedas were written by the "aryans" on banks of saraswati, and the saraswati dried up centuries before they "destroyed IVC and took over". Another interesting thing is that Saraswati flew through the IVC sooooo.... yeah, maybe it all can be summed up to people fucking🫠

The thing is, we are locals, this culture was very much developed here on this land. Vedas, Sanskrit, Sanatan, there is a reason you do not see traces of them elsewhere, and I am certain this theory is BS because of the little I have read, because it has nothing to prove for itself.

But other than that, this particular subject was never of my interest because of how lengthy it was, and I fucking sucked at history, so may I suggest asking others who do think of this topic as often. I only know @tiananmen-square-orgy to be my nerdy mutual on this topic, and if finnie cannot help you I'll try geting you connected to a friend who is not on tumblr yet can help becuase of his extensive knowledge.

[gemsofindology]

Horse Rockart in Pandavahara Gumpha, Khurda, Odisha

Horse Rockart in Pandavahara Gumpha, Khurda, Odisha is a powerful testament against the fake Aryan Invasion Theory. Its survival now hinges on combating rampant mining activities. #Archaeology

[youaremysunshine-court]

defenestrating myself

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My Grimoire Research Library

this is a list of my major resource I've referenced/am currently referencing in my big grimoire project. For books I'll be linking the Goodreads page, for pdfs, websites and videos i'll link them directly.

There are plenty of generalised practitioner resources that can work for everyone but as I have Irish ancestry and worship Hellenic deities quite a few of my resources are centred around Celtic Ireland, ancient Greece and the Olympic mythos. If you follow other sects of paganism you are more than welcome to reblog with your own list of resources.

Parts of my grimoire discuss topics of new age spiritualism, dangerous conspiracy theories, and bigotry in witchcraft so some resources in this list focus on that.

Books

Apollodorus - The Library of Greek Mythology

Astrea Taylor - Intuitive Witchcraft

Dee Dee Chainey & Willow Winsham - Treasury of Folklore: Woodlands and Forests

John Ferguson - Among The Gods: An Archaeological Exploration of Ancient Greek Religion

Katharine Briggs - The Fairies in Tradition and Literature

Kevin Danaher - The Year in Ireland: Irish Calendar Customs

Laura O'Brien - Fairy Faith in Ireland

Lindsey C. Watson - Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome

Nicholas Culpeper - Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Plutarch - The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives

R.B. Parkinson - A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Around the World

Rachel Patterson - Seventy Eight Degrees of Wisdom: A Tarot Journey to Self-Awareness

Raleigh Briggs - Make Your Place: Affordable & Sustainable Nesting Skills

Robin Wall Kimmerer - Braiding Sweetgrass

Ronald Hutton - The Witch: A History of Fear in Ancient Times

Rosemary Ellen Guiley - The Encyclopaedia of Witches and Witchcraft

Thomas N. Mitchell - Athens: A History of the World's First Democracy

Walter Stephens - Demon Lovers: Witchcraft S3x and the Crisis of Belief

Yvonne P. Chireau - Black Magic: Religion and The African American Conjuring Tradition

PDFs

Anti Defamation League - Hate on Display: Hate Symbols Database

Brandy Williams - White Light, Black Magic: Racism in Esoteric Thought

Cambridge SU Women’s Campaign - How to Spot TERF Ideology 2.0.

Blogs and Websites

Anti Defamation League

B. Ricardo Brown - Until Darwin: Science and the Origins of Race

Dr. S. Deacon Ritterbush - Dr Beachcomb

Folklore Thursday

Freedom of Mind Resource Centre - Steven Hassan’s BITE Model of Authoritarian Control

Institute for Strategic Dialogue

Royal Horticultural Society

The Duchas Project -National Folklore Collection

Vivienne Mackie - Vivscelticconnections

YouTube Videos

ContraPoints - Gender Critical

Emma Thorne Videos - Christian Fundie Says Halloween is SATANIC!

Owen Morgan (Telltale) - The Source Of All Conspiracies: A 1902 Document Called "The Protocols"

The Belief it or Not Podcast - Ep. 40 Satanic Panic, Ep 92. Wicca

Wendigoon - The Conspiracy Theory Iceberg

Other videos I haven't referenced but you may still want to check out

Atun-Shei Films - Ancient Aryans: The History of Crackpot N@zi Archaeology

Belief It Or Not - Ep. 90 - Logical Fallacies

Dragon Talisman - Tarot Documentary (A re-upload of the 1997 documentary Strictly Supernatural: Tarot and Astrology)

Lindsay Ellis - Tracing the Roots of Pop Culture Transphobia

Overly Sarcastic Productions - Miscellaneous Myths Playlist

Owen Morgan (Telltale) - SATANIC PANIC! 90s Video Slanders Satanists | Pagan Invasion Saga | Part 1

ReignBot - How Ouija Boards Became "Evil" | Obscura Archive Ep. 2

Ryan Beard - Demi Lovato Promoted a R4cist Lizard Cult

Super Eyepatch Wolf - The Bizarre World of Fake Psychics, Faith Healers and Mediums

Weird Reads with Emily Louise -The Infamous Hoaxes Iceberg Playlist

Wendigoon - The True Stories of the Warren Hauntings: The Conjuring, Annabelle, Amityville, and Other Encounters

[kambakht-dil]

Doesn't matter if you are a right wined or left winged individual, everyone should watch this documentary atleast once. Leave your biases behind for 1.5 hrs and listen to what this guy has to say.

Absolutely amazing work with proper citations and all

You hate brahmins? watch this! Love brahmins and think they did nothing wrong? watch this!

Hate Manusmriti and wanna burn the shit out of it? watch the video

Think that caste discrimination was started by British/Mughals? Watch the damn video

Believe in Aryan invasion theory? Think the north Indians started the north-south divide or wanna know how the term Dravidians came to life? Watch the fucking video

i'll even tag some blogs so this can reach a wider audience

@drowning-in-ichor @rhysaka @mrityuloknative @mizutaama @magic-coffee

[hindulivesmatter]

I used to think Hinduism could be reformed but seeing y’all sanatanis clownery has me convinced that only Periyar-style radical atheism can help this country. Y’all are the damn problem

We should shift to "Periyar-style radical atheism"..... Right....

E.V.Ramaswami (aka Periyar) was honestly what I'd call a Hinduphobic, perverted idiot. What he preached bordered on the verge of insanity to the point where Jawaharlal Nehru called him a lunatic. Former Tamil Nadu chief ministers late C.N.Annadurai and M.G.Ramachandran, who were once close supporters of Periyar, had parted company with him later because of his unjust and unethical policies and behaviour.

But, my apologies, his teachings are the only thing that can help this country, hmm?

Let's look at some fun facts about him, shall we?

Some things Ramaswami did:

Paraded naked idols of gods and goddesses.

Married his own daughter. His second wife was his adopted daughter. Wow.

Used every opportunity to condemn the Hindu Gods and ridicule Hindu customs and traditions, while keeping a steady silence on Islam and Christianity.

Organised a procession in Salem in Tamil Nadu with big cutouts of Ram, Sita and Hanuman garlanded with slippers.

Reportedly used to tell his followers that if they encountered Brahmin and a snake on the road, they should kill the Brahmin first.

Was very pro British. He wanted the British to rule India and didn’t join the independence moment

Was responsible for starting reverse casteism against the minority brahmin community in the Hindu fold

Was a firm believer of Aryan invasion theory

This is the man you want to follow. This man has absolutely no respect for the religion you wish to see "reformed".

And we're the clowns? Please. Literally all we have asked for is to stop the destruction of our temples and respect our history and culture, and you fuckers take that as a personal insult.

If us speaking of about history and all the crimes that have been committed us makes you uncomfortable, maybe you're the damn problem.

Take your Hinduphobic ass somewhere else, and let us live in peace, you dickhead.

[Exhibit 43]

[h2-so-4]

AIT or Aryan Invasion Theory (debunked): A superior "race" of white, horse-riding Aryans invaded the areas of the inferior and primitive Indus Valley population, which included the Dravidians (but actually no one said that the IVC was a pure, dark-skinned Dravidian civilization so idk where that idea came from), and civilized them.

AMT or Aryan Migration Theory: A group of usually horse and chariot-riding nomads and pastoralists usually called the Aryans migrated from the Indo-Iranian region to India and mingled PEACEFULLY with the population of the late Indus Valley population (who were already highly advanced, as we know), by which time the IVC was beginning to collapse, possibly due to change of climate and rain patterns (still not sure yet), and hence the people were abandoning these settlements spreading across the subcontinent. These Indo-Aryans on arriving mixed with this population and shared their genetics, art and culture with each other, which led to the introduction of Sanskrit and Vedic culture in India.

To any leftist who keep regurgitating the former busted myth, please stop. You look stupid. And to any rightist who keep using AMT as AIT to debunk it, they're not the same. These two theories have a sky-ground difference.

The previous one makes Aryans look evil. That they were some high-level royalty who invaded India. But, in fact, they were regular people, regular migrants, just how every migration used to happen 3000-4000 years ago. Like I said, most of them were nomadic settlers.

Sure, later on, the varna system came into existence and this was the beginning of a hierarchical structure in India for the first time (since during the IVC there wasn't any sort of social hierarchy according to current sources). But who's to say it was ONLY the Aryans? Remember. They're NOT a race. They're a particular group of people. And by the time the varna system was introduced already a hell lotta intermixing had happened. Hence it wasn't JUST the Aryans (history and especially anthropological and genetic history is not that black and white LMFAO), because it was a term for 'noble', not some kinda "righteous clan" or something. Idk why people keep thinking of it as a race lol. I thought that was already debunked with the AIT.

As for the indigeneity of the Aryans, technically no one is indigenous. Many of the adivasi and non-adivasi tribes came AFTER the Indus Valley Civilization. So the "who came first" logic doesn't really work at all. (There might've been many that came before as well, who knows. Point is, again, it's all a migration salad at the end of the day)

adjective

indigenous (adjective)

originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native:

This is the Google definition of indigenous. If we take THIS into account, there would be SEVERAL groups of people involved, instead of just one, like the IVC people, a few of the oldest nomadic tribes, mixed Indo-Aryans, etc. But I'm not gonna call ANYONE indigenous, or not indigenous. Because guess what, none of the humans are really indigenous to any place apart from the African continent. Also the Aryan migration led to the rise of a LOT of genetic subgroups, which was a key factor in leading to the most confusing anthropological history of the Indian subcontinent. It has a fuck ton of genetic markers and groups and subgroups, it's wildly confusing and historians are still trying to figure out every kind of intermixing that has happened. So STOP fighting over who is indigenous or not LMAO. Because guess what, we can never truly assert the indigeneity of a migrant species such as humans. (Yes we do call Native Americans the indigenous people of Americas, or the aboriginals the indigenous people of Australia and the Australasian archipelago, but they were also migrants at some point of time. Now before anyone says I'm disregarding the indigeneity of these groups, I'm not. All I'm saying is that we shouldn't CARE who's indigenous and who's not, because unlike the case of Americas and the Australasian islands, Aryans didn't INVADE India. They were simply another set of migrants, JUST like the IVC people, who also came from the middle-eastern region, and JUST like the adivasi tribes, who migrated from mostly the African and Australasian regions, probably, not sure again.)

I'll link the genetic studies done below because they explain it all way better than I can (and these research papers may also correct some of the incorrect statements I might've unnoticeably or ignorantly made in my own paragraphs so yeah):

Hence, at the end of the day, idk why we're banging our heads on the walls over ONE SIMPLE MIGRATION, which was NOTHING DIFFERENT THAN ANY OTHER MIGRATION. Migrations happen ALL THE TIME. Get over it, BOTH the sides of the political wings, and live in harmony lmao. The Aryans and Dravidians AREN'T RACES. They were just certain groups of REGULAR ass people jeez.

History is a complex subject, and the more evidence we find, the more we would know about our past. I have literally nothing against any of the political wings, but I do want to keep the current theories (which are NOT synonymous to hypotheses btw) and facts straight. I'm once again not saying these facts will never change, because that's not how history works. Maybe in the future, we might find out something completely different about India's past. But remember, whenever we talk about our country's past, we should keep it unbiased, unopinionated, and definitely factual and objective, without including our own views (both political and personal) into it. Interpretations? Sure. But they should remain at ONLY interpretations at best, and only the solid evidences should be claimed as facts.

[metamatar]

Is Aryan migration historical fact? Yk even Ambedkar didn’t believe in racial theory of caste 😐

Yes it is, near verified by historical, linguistic, anthropological and a genetic record.

Neither do I, subscribing to Aryan migration does not mean race as caste in any way unless you you believe that migrations of any form result in racial violence and domination. It doesn't even follow that that such violence manifests as the caste system and maps to racial violence. There isn't even a need to believe in the coherence of Aryans as a racial group to accept that their were migrations of Indo European peoples bringing horses into the subcontinent. Ambedkar's reservations on the acceptance of Aryan Migration were founded in a time where the hypothesis was called Aryan Invasion, and deployed often as a defense of Aryan and Brahmin superiority over indigenous others. The Hindu right now refutes Aryan Migration because they want sole claim to Indian history.

https://scroll.in/article/937043/why-hindutva-supporters-love-to-hate-the-discredited-aryan-invasion-theory

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar on the Aryan Invasion and the Emergence of the Caste System in India by Arvind Sharma at https://www.jstor.org/stable/4139922?seq=22

[dialogue-queered]

11 June 2023

Beneath the veneer of Russian military “tactics”, you see the stupid leer of destruction for the sake of it. The Kremlin can’t create, so all that is left is to destroy. Not in some pseudo-glorious self-immolation, the people behind atrocities are petty cowards, but more like a loser smearing their faeces over life. In Russia’s wars the very senselessness seems to be the sense.

After the casual mass executions at Bucha; after the bombing of maternity wards in Mariupol; after the laying to waste of whole cities in Donbas; after the children’s torture chambers, the missiles aimed at freezing civilians to death in the dead of winter, we now have the apocalyptic sight of the waters of the vast Dnipro, a river that when you are on it can feel as wide as a sea, bursting through the destroyed dam at Kakhovka. The reservoir held as much water as the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Its destruction has already submerged settlements where more than 40,000 people live. It has already wiped out animal sanctuaries and nature reserves. It will decimate agriculture in the bread basket of Ukraine that feeds so much of the world, most notably in the Middle East and Africa. To Russian genocide add ecocide.

The dam has been controlled by Russia for more than a year. The Ukrainian government has been warning that Russia had plans to blast it since October.

Seismologists in Norway have confirmed that massive blasts, the type associated with explosives rather than an accidental breach, came from the reservoir the night of its destruction. Some – including the American pro-Putin media personality Tucker Carlson – argue Russia couldn’t be behind the devastation, given the damage has spread to Russian-controlled territories, potentially restricting water supply to Crimea. But if “Russia wouldn’t damage its own people” is your argument then it’s one that doesn’t hold, pardon the tactless pun, much water. One of the least accurate quotes about Russia is Winston Churchill’s line about it being “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.” This makes it sound as if Russia is driven by some theory of rational choice – when century after century the opposite appears to be the case.

Few have captured the Russian cycle of self-destruction and the destruction of others as well as the Ukrainian literary critic Tetyana Ogarkova. In her rewording of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Russian classic novel Crime and Punishment, a novel about a murderer who kills simply because he can, Ogarkova calls Russia a culture where you have “crime without punishment, and punishment without crime”. The powerful murder with impunity; the victims are punished for no reason.

When not bringing humanitarian aid to the front lines, Ogarkova presents a podcast together with her husband, the philosopher Volodymyr Yermolenko. It’s remarkable for showing two people thinking calmly while under daily bombardment. It reminds me of German-Jewish philosophers such as Walter Benjamin, who kept writing lucidly even as they fled the Nazis. As they try to make sense of the evil bearing down on their country, Ogarkova and Yermolenko note the difference between Hitler and Stalin: while Nazis had some rules about who they punished (non-Aryans; communists) in Stalin’s terror anyone could be a victim at any moment. Random violence runs through Russian history.Reacting to how Vladimir Putin’s Russia is constantly changing its reasons for invading Ukraine – from “denazification” to “reclaiming historic lands” to “Nato expansion” – Ogarkova and Yermolenko decide that the very brutal nature of the invasion is its essence: the war crimes are the point. Russia claims to be a powerful “pole” in the world to balance the west – but has failed to create a successful political model others would want to join. So it has nothing left to offer except to drag everyone down to its own depths.“How dare you live like this,” went a resentful piece of graffiti by Russian soldiers in Bucha. “What’s the point of the world when there is no place for Russia in it,” complains Putin. After the dam at Kakhovka was destroyed, a General Dobruzhinsky crowed on a popular Russian talkshow: “We should blow up the Kyiv water reservoir too.” “Why?” asked the host. “Just to show them.” But, as Ogarkova and Yermolenko explore, Russians also send their soldiers to die senselessly in the meat grinder of the Donbas, their bodies left uncollected on the battlefield, their relatives not informed of their death so as to avoid paying them. On TV, presenters praise how “no one knows how to die like us”. Meanwhile, villagers on the Russian-occupied side of the river are being abandoned by the authorities. Being “liberated” by Russia means joining its empire of humiliation.

Where does this drive to annihilation come from? In 1912 the Russian-Jewish psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein – who was murdered by the Nazis, while her three brothers were killed in Stalin’s terror -first put forward the idea that people were drawn to death as much as to life. She drew on themes from Russian literature and folklore for her theory of a death drive, but the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, first found her ideas too morbid. After the First World War, he came to agree with her. The desire for death was the desire to let go of responsibility, the burden of individuality, choice, freedom – and sink back into inorganic matter. To just give up. In a culture such as Russia’s, where avoiding facing up to the dark past with all its complex webs of guilt and responsibility is commonplace, such oblivion can be especially seductive.

But Russia is also sending out a similar message to Ukrainians and their allies with these acts of ultra-violent biblical destruction: give in to our immensity, surrender your struggle. And for all Russia’s military defeats and actual socio-economic fragility, this propaganda of the deed can still work.

The reaction in the west to the explosion of the dam has been weirdly muted. Ukrainians are mounting remarkable rescue operations, while Russia continues to shell semi-submerged cities, but they are doing it more or less alone. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has been mystified by the “zero support” from international organisations such as the UN and Red Cross.

Perhaps the relative lack of support comes partly because people feel helpless in the face of something so immense, these Cecil B DeMille-like scenes of giant rivers exploding. It’s the same helplessness some feel when faced with the climate crisis. It’s apposite that the strongest response to Russia’s ecocide came not from governments but the climate activist Greta Thunberg, who clearly laid the blame of what happened on Russia and demanded it be held accountable. But there’s been barely a peep out of western governments or the UN.

Pushing the strange lure of death, oblivion and just giving up is the Russian gambit. How much life do we have left in us?

Peter Pomerantsev is the author of Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia

[someoneintheshadow456]

For south Asians:

Don’t call us Nazis or fascists or blame us for the Holocaust. The Nazis never called it a Swastika, it was a Hakenkreuz.

Don’t scream “free Kashmir” or bring up Modi at every vaguely Indian person you meet

Stop constantly asking us about the caste system. In fact non-Indians seem to be more obsessed with it than we are.

India is not the misogynistic poverty ridden fascist hellhole that the Guardian, NYT, and BBC would make you think it is

Stop listening to people like Dev Patel and Mindy Kailing

We don’t drink cow piss as holy water. Don’t call us “street shitters” when LA literally exists

AIT (Aryan invasion theory) is not real - it was made up by British eugenicists to make fair-skinned Indians slaves to the white man and convert the dark-skinned ones to Christianity.

Please for the love of god DO NOT call fair-skinned Indians “Aryan”, especially if they’re Tamillian because in TN it is used as a casteist slur (it basically has the same connotation as telling a Jew to “go back to Poland”)

asians: pls care about racism against us

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The Aryan Invasion of India in 1500 BCE Versus the Out of India Theory

The Aryan Invasion of India in 1500 BCE Versus the Out of India Theory The Aryan Invasion Hypothesis According to this theory, nomadic populations speaking an Indo-European language came from the steppes of Central Asia, crossing Afghanistan before entering India. This migration took place around 1500 BCE and was the cause of profound changes in the region: A social and religious…

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Watch this: Lies of History About Ancient Indians - Aryan Migration Theory DNA Analysis - FutureIQ

Is the Aryan migration theory true or false? The latest DNA study might just have the right answer to this. The study went through the ancestry of different regions, anthropomorphic, historical, archeological, and other evidence to come up with a solid understanding of the history of the Aryan invasion to understand where the Indians came from and when they did. Find out the actual history of Indians and how much Aryan DNA you have depending on which part of India you live in.

Hope you enjoyed FutureIQ by Navin Kabra and Shrikant Joshi.

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Top Historian Reveals India's Hidden Past

What motivates this push to reshape India's historical narrative? Let’s dive into it. At the heart of this movement is the desire to forge a Hindu-centric national identity. For many Hindu nationalists, the narrative of India’s history has been distorted by foreign invasions and colonialism, particularly those by Muslim rulers and the British. They argue that these influences have overshadowed the rich contributions of Hindu civilization. By revising history, they seek to reassert the primacy of Hindu culture and achievements, often sidelining the rich tapestry of contributions made by Muslim and other non-Hindu communities. It’s a narrative that positions Hinduism as the original, most significant contributor to the Indian identity, and it’s a powerful tool for shaping national consciousness. This leads us to the romanticization of what some call the "Golden Age" of ancient India. The BJP and its affiliates often idealize the Vedic period and the ancient Hindu kingdoms, framing them as the pinnacle of Indian civilization. They paint a picture of a time marked by moral and spiritual superiority, a golden era that they believe has been tarnished by later invasions. To support this narrative, they downplay significant historical theories, like the Aryan migration theory, which challenges the notion of Hindus as the original inhabitants of India. Instead, they promote the "Out of India" theory, arguing that the roots of Hindu civilization are indigenous and uninterrupted. This is not just about history; it’s about national pride, about reclaiming a narrative that they believe has been unjustly taken away. But let’s not forget the political ramifications of this historical revisionism. By emphasizing a Hindu identity, the BJP solidifies its base among conservative Hindus. The marginalization of Muslim contributions, particularly those of the Mughal Empire, serves to rally nationalist sentiments. It’s a strategic move that positions Muslims as outsiders, invaders of a once-pure Hindu civilization. This narrative is not just about the past; it’s about the present and the future, shaping political agendas and consolidating power in a way that aligns with majoritarian goals. They view the rewriting of history as a necessary step to “decolonize” the narrative, to reclaim India’s story from what they perceive as the biases of colonial scholarship. It’s a call to arms, a rallying cry for those who feel that their identity has been misrepresented for too long. But this sentiment is often steeped in resentment towards Islamic rule. The nearly eight centuries of Muslim governance in India are framed as a dark period of exploitation and violence. While it’s true that there were instances of conflict and destruction, there were also significant contributions to art, architecture, and culture during this time. Yet, Hindu nationalists focus on the narrative of victimization, portraying Hindus as perpetual victims of an oppressive regime. This narrative not only justifies their resentment but also calls for a restoration of what they view as India’s rightful Hindu past. The control over educational institutions and curricula is another critical component of this historical revisionism. Since coming to power in 2014, the BJP has made significant strides in shaping the content of textbooks, pushing for a more Hindu-centric view of history. This means greater emphasis on Hindu kings and sages while diminishing the contributions of Muslim rulers and their cultural impact. Such control over the narrative is crucial for molding the minds of future generations, ensuring that they align with the party’s ideological goals.

[hindulivesmatter]

I used to a staunch leftist tbh but your blog and other hindublr blogs that post about hindu related stuff, have honestly forced me to question my belief - where I am standing, who's voice I am echoing.

I'm still coming to terms with the whole casteism thing, then (now disproven) Aryan invasion theory, white-washing of history.

It makes you ask yourself, why was it done so? What was its purpose?

Welcome to the club! Once you open your eyes, you can never see things the same way ever again.

Hinduism as a religion, has been hurt and erased repeatedly by colonizers. There were two main invasions. The Mughal and British empire. Islam and Christianity. It was absolutely brutal. The erasure of our culture, our temples and libraries was heartbreaking. They slipped lies and fake facts about our religion to the rest of the world, and created unsavoury opinions.

All because we refused to worship one single god like theirs. Allah or Jesus. They hated us. We are called idolators, cow worshippers and backward. But we remain placid because Hinduism really is a religion of peace.

All this secularism bullshit is only seen in India, a country with a Hindu majority, because these days, we are really just people pleasers. I can bet you wouldn't see the remotest form of secularism, forget secularism, even tolerance isn't found in Muslim-majority countries.

When you start seeing the influence of Muslims in India, its shocking. Its insidious how many turn a blind eye to the pain we went through. How much they scream and rage when the mere fact is noticed that our temples were struck down and mosques were erected in their place. We are not allowed to mourn our past. How much disrespect Hindus have for their own religion, while Muslims base their whole life around their faith and any criticism equals death. But Hinduphobia is seen as deserved.

Always question what you read, because what we're being fed by the media is always poisoned.

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