Introduction
The Concept of an Indian Identity and Mindset continues....


Incidentally, the Aryan-Dravidian myth has now been exploded by modern research on DNA of Indians and Europeans conducted by Professor C. Panse of Newton, Mass. USA and other scholars. In light of such new research, the British Broadcasting Corporation [BBC] service, in it’s October 6, 2005 service, completely debunked the Aryan—Dravidian race theory stating that: “Theory was not just wrong; it included unacceptably racist ideas” [www.bbc.co.uk, religion & ethics homepage, Thursday, 6-10-2005].

Sri Aurobindo wrote seven decades ago that “Indian scholars have not been able to form themselves into a great and independent school of learning due to two causes: the miserable scantiness of the mastery in Sanskrit provided by our universities, crippling to all but born scholars, and our lack of study independence which makes us over-ready to defer to European [and Western] authority.” How true it is even today!

The history of no free country can be structured on foreign accounts of it. The time has come for us to take seriously our Puranic sources and to imbibe a de-falsified and well-founded history of ancient India, a history written by Indians about Indians. Such a history would bring out the amazing continuity of a nation, which nation asserted its identity again and again at times of war and political crises. It should focus on the fact that at the centre of our perception of the Indian nation, is the concept of the Chakravartin ideal—The Chakravartin to be overall in charge to defend the nation from external aggression while giving maximum internal autonomy to the janapadas. A correct, defalsified history would record that Hindustan was conceptually one in the art of governance, in the style of royal courts, in the methods of warfare, in the maintenance of its agrarian base, and in the dissemination of information. Otherwise it was decentralized: Villages were self-administered. The Panchayat system is a manifestation of that.