Question
Are we Indians actually descendants of the Aryan and Dravidian race? Is there any proof of it?
Today is day five of Indias Mysterious Contest where we feature the last unsolved, mysterious question of the contest.
Answer
There is no real evidence that the Indians are actually descendants of the Aryan and Dravidian race whether archeological, literary or linguistic and no scholar working in the field, even those who still accept some outside origin for the Vedic people the socalled Aryans, accepts the theory in its classical form of the violent invasion and destruction of the Harappan cities by the incoming Aryans. brbrThe following points will prove the above statement,brbr. The main center of Harappan civilization is the newly brrediscovered Sarasvati river of Vedic fame. While the Indus river has about three dozen important Harappan sites, the Sarasvati has over five hundred. The drying up of the Sarasvati brought about the end of the Harappan civilization around BC. As the Vedas know of this river they cannot be later than the terminal point for the brriver or different than the Harappans who flourished on its banks. Harappan culture should be renamed quotthe Sarasvati culturequot and the Vedic culture must have been in India long before BC.brbr. No evidence of any significant invading populations have been found in ancient India, nor have any destroyed cities or massacred peoples been unearthed. The socalled massacre of Mohenjodaro that Wheeler, an early excavator of the site claimed to find, has been found to be only a case of imagination gone wild. The sites were abandoned along with the ecological changes that resulted in the drying up of the Sarasvati.brbr. Socalled Aryan cultural traits like horses, iron, cattlerearing or fire worship have been found to be either brindigenous developments like iron or to have existed in Harappan and preHarappan sites like horses and fire worship. No special Aryan culture in ancient India can be differentiated apart from the indigenous culture.brbr. A more critical reading of Vedic texts reveals that Harappan civilization, the largest of the ancient world, finds itself reflected in Vedic literature, the largest literature of the ancient world. Vedic literature was previously not related to any significant civilization but merely to quotthe destruction of Harappa.quot How the largest literature of the ancient world was produced by illiterate nomadic peoples as they destroyed one of the great civilizations of the ancient world is one of the absurdities that the Aryan invasion leads to, particularly when the urban literate Harappans are not given any literature of their own remaining. brbrPutting these points together we now see that the Vedas show the same development of culture, agriculture and arts and crafts as Harappan and preHarappan culture. Vedic culture is located in the same region as the Harappan, north India centered on the Sarasvati river. The abandonment of the invasion theory solves the literary riddle. Putting together Vedic literature, the largest of the ancient world, with the Harappan civilization, the largest of the ancient world, a picture emerges of ancient India as the largest civilization of the ancient world with the largest and best preserved literature, a far more logical view, and one that shows India as a consistent center from which civilization has spread over the last five thousand years.
