Yet, if they were so wrong about the end of Harappa, how can they still be so right that the Vedic culture was later and not connected to Harappa?” Even if the Aryans did not destroy Harappa, even if there is no evidence of significant populations coming from the northwest into India, even though the archaeological record shows an unbroken continuity of civilization from the pre-Harappa to the post-Harappa periods in the very regions described in Vedic texts-they still hold to their earlier estimation of Vedic culture as an import from Central Asia.
They are trying to pretend that it makes no difference. Yet instead of acknowledging that the idea of the Aryan destruction of Harappa was a great blunder which casts a shadow over their entire approach to ancient India, such former supports of the theory would simply push it under the rug. Though the main edifice of the Aryan Invasion has been removed –the invading Aryan hordes that destroyed Harappa– the conclusion that the Vedas represent an intrusive culture from Central Asia persists. If we look carefully, therefore, we see that the invasionist scenario has been replaced with a not too different migration/acculturation theory. While some of them insist that the Aryans entered in significant numbers, most portray it as a cultural diffusion that involved only small groups of people. However, the same scholars speak of the Aryans coming into India with their language, their Gods, their horses and their chariots about the same time as the old Invasion scenario (c. We might think that the myth of the Aryan Invasion has been exposed and is now being removed from history books. “As readers look at the ongoing debate relative to ancient India (2001), they surprisingly see that the main scholars who used to support the Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT)-whether leftists in India like Romila Thapar or American academics like Michael Witzel-now claim to no longer accept it.
Gupta that add much technical data to this approach.Īryan Invasion or Migration: An Update and a Look Forward For those looking for more information, please examine such longer works as well, including those by archaeologists like B.B. Like the original, the updated booklet is meant as an overview and introduction for readers who may not wish to examine longer works on the subject. Therefore, it requires an update for its new edition While the original booklet was based on my longer book “ God, Sages and Kings” first published in 1991, the update reflects several points from my new book on ancient India, the Rig Veda and the History of India, that will be published shortly (2001). Since the first publication of book entitled “ Myth of the Aryan Invasion” in 1994, there have been many new discoveries in the field that uphold its basic premises from various angles. ”We can also trace linguistic , cultural and religious influences east and southįrom India as far as Indonesia, not only during the classical Hindu-Buddhist period, but also in the Vedic period itself.” 15, 2001) from American Institute of Vedic Studies ( ) said that: Indonesia: The Origin of Vedic Culture & Civilization Homelandĭavid Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri) and Makara Sankranti (Jan. Many factual data, discoveries and inventions were unearthed as long as recent advanced research’s on that issue, with multidiscipline methodology of various sciences: archaeology, paleology, geology, geophysic, geo-paleo-logy, anthropology, philology, history of religions, comparative religions, philosophy and spirituality, ect. This theory of course has a certain meaning that all worlds’ religions were come from that cradle of human civilizations.Bottom of Form
Stephen James Oppenheimer in his book “ Eden in The East, The Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia” (1998), indicates that Sundaland or South East Asia or mainly Indonesia Archipelago now, was the global sources of the primeval human civilizations, “ The Cradle of Human Civilization in the World” between 80.000 – until 11.6000 years ago. Prof Arisyio Nunes Des Santos in his book” Atlantis Has Finally Found” (2005) and Prof. THE ORIGIN OF VEDICT CULTURE FROM ANCIENT SUNDALAND (LEMURIA-ATLANTIS ERA) ?Īre The Vedic Culture came from Indo-Aryan tradition or Indonesia Nusantara (Austronesia) ancient tradition? That big question was very controversial in regard to the recent great inventions and discoveries of the origin of Human Civilization that located at Sundaland in Southeast Asia.