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Introduction
The Concept of an Indian Identity and Mindset continues....
Thus, Sanskrit, instead of being the mother of all Indo-European languages, became just a branch of their huge family. The religion of Zarathustra is said to have influenced Hinduism, and not vice versa. And on the other hand, it divided India and pitted against each other the ‘low caste dark-skinned Dravidians’ and the ‘high caste light-skinned Aryans’,
a rift which is still enduring.
But today, this theory is being challenged by two new discoveries, one archaeological and the other linguistic. Firstly, in the Rig Veda, the Ganges, India’s sacred river, is only mentioned once, but the mythical Saraswati is praised fifty times. For a long time, the Saraswati river was indeed considered a myth, until the American satellite Landstat was able to photograph and map the bed of this magnificent river, and trace its source in the Himalayas. Archaeologist Paul-Henri Francfort, who studied the Saraswati region at the beginning of the Nineties, found that the Saraswati had “disappeared”, because around 2200 BC, an immense drought reduced the whole region to aridity and famine. “Thus”, he writes, “most inhabitants moved away from the Saraswati to settle on the banks of the Indus and Sutlej rivers”. According to ‘official’ history, the Vedas were composed around 1500 BC, some even say 1200 BC. Yet, the Rig Veda describes India as it was before the great drought which dried up the Saraswati, which means in effect that the so called Indus, or Harappan, civilization, was a continuation of the Vedic epoch, which ended approximately when the Saraswati dried up.
There is, however, no such word as ‘Aryan’ in Sanskrit literature [closest is ‘arya’ meaning honourable person, and not a community]. The word “Dravidian” was coined by Adi Sankara, a Brahmin monk from Kerala: in his shasthrath with Mandana Mishra at Varanasi, he had called himself a ‘Dravida shishu’ that is a child of an area where three oceans meet, i.e., south India]. The north-south racial divide theory was thus a deliberate distortion by British imperialists and propagated by their witting and unwitting, mentally enslaved Indian scholars.
to be continued...