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Aryan-Dravidian divide is a modern

political creation with no scientific or
historical support.

Science on Aryan and Dravidians

Even fifty years after independence, it is unfortunate but
true that Indians continue to view themselves and their
history through colonial glasses. The education system for
the most part continues to be based on the Macaulayite
model. This is especially so in subjects like history, which
include long discredited theories like the Aryan invasion and
the Aryan-Dravidian conflicts. What is the truth? Here is
what science has to say.
A recently published study comparing the genetic
composition of Western Eurasian and Indian populations
shows that the supposed Aryan invasion of India 3000 to
4000 years ago postulated by historians in the nineteenth
century, and still found in many textbooks is contradicted by
genetics. In articles that appeared in the British journal

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Current Biology, T.R. Disotell, T. Kivisild and their coworkers

observe that the supposed Aryan invasion of India 3000
4000 years ago was much less significant than is generally
believed. A key mitochondrial DNA of the Western
Eurasian strain accounts for at most 5.2 percent in Indian
populations as compared to 70 percent in Europe. This
rules out a recent common origin as postulated by the
Aryan invasion. Any split that occurred from a common
population must have taken place more than 50,000 years
ago, according to the study. This is in agreement with other
genetic data, showing that there were major migrations out
of Africa into Southeast Asia at approximately the same
time. It is worth noting that according to a widely accepted
theory, humans evolved in Africa and spread into other
parts of the world beginning about 100,000 years ago. This
was during the last Ice Age, when much of the Northern
Hemisphere was uninhabitable due to extreme cold. The
Puranas also record that during an extended cold period,
people from all parts of the world sought shelter in India in
caves and rock shelters. This goes to explain the presence
of ancient cave- and rock art at places like Bhimbetka in
Central India.

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Here is something really interesting. The authors of the

genetic study note that this West Eurasian strain is not only
insignificant, but also present in roughly the same
proportions in North and South India. This means that there
is no correlation between the languages of the population
and their supposed Eurasian origin. The Aryan invasion
theory holds that ancestors of speakers of Aryan

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languages like Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali and others were

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related to the Hindu-

Eurasian invaders, whereas speakers of Dravidian

languages of South India were the original inhabitants of

Christian violence that has

frequently swept Orissa's

India. The genetic study contradicts this by showing both to

have the same insignificant proportion of the West

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Eurasian DNA strain. So, according to science, there is no

Aryan-Dravidian divide.
The recent decipherment of the Indus script shows that
these findings are in agreement with findings from
archaeology. Jha and I have read more than 2000
Harappan seals and they show that the Vedic literature

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already existed by 3000 BC. The literary evidence of the

Ancient Indian History

Comparative Religion
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Rigveda also contradicts any invasion from Eurasia. Some

recent attempts to place the Rigvedic land in Afghanistan

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are seriously misguided. The Rigveda describes an

established maritime society in which references to the
ocean, ships and navigation are very common. It is not
easy to see how such a society could flourish in
land-locked Afghanistan. All in all both science and literature
shatter the notion of any Aryan invasion. It is one of the
aberrations of scholarship that belongs to what Millikan
called pathological science. Let us next look at its history
and politics.

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The first point to note is that the idea of Aryans and

Dravidians as separate, even mutually hostile people is of
very recent origin. It is a creation of European scholars of
the colonial era, having no basis in Indian history or
literature. The Amarakosha, the authoritative lexicon of the
Sanskrit language (5th century AD) defines Arya as
mahakula kulinarya sabhya sajjana sadhavah. This means
that an Arya is one who hails from a distinguished family,
and conducts himself with decency and gentleness.
According to the Rigveda the children of Arya follow the
light, meaning they seek enlightenment. It has nothing to do
with race, language or nationality. (Sanskrit has no word for
race.)
This fact that the Aryan-Dravidian theory was of recent
origin was noted by Dr. Ambedkar also. As he wrote: All
the princes, whether they belonged to the so-called Aryan
race or the so-called Dravidian race, were Aryas. Whether
a tribe or a family was racially Aryan or Dravidian was a
question that never troubled the people of India, until foreign
scholars came in and began to draw the line.
This is supported also by the Manusmriti, another ancient
authority. It tells us that Dravidians (in the geographic
sense) are also Aryans who at one time had fallen from the
Aryan fold when they stopped following certain Vedic
practices and rituals. (Was this the reason that Sage
Agastya went south of the Vindhyas, taking Vedic
knowledge with him?) The Manusmriti has been revised
many times to reflect changes in society and practices. In
one particular place it describes Arya Desha as: The land

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bounded by the mountain of Reva (Narmada), the Eastern

Sea (Bay of Bengal) and the Western Sea (Arabian Sea) is
Arya Desha. This is the land where black-skinned deer
roam freely. That is to say, the Manusmriti identifies Arya
Desha as none other than Peninsular India, which includes
Dravidians. It also tells us that the inhabitants of this
country are exemplary Aryans, worthy of emulation by all.
What this means is that the terms Arya and Aryadesha
were assigned to people and their habitat depending on
their conduct and culture and not race or language. This
also means that the assignment could change depending on
whether the people had lapsed from their expected
standards of behavior. So at the time when this passage in
the Manusmriti was composed, the people of Peninsular
India were considered exemplary Aryans. And this was
because of their conduct not language or race.

Race science': Colonial-missionary politics

The notion of Aryan and Dravidian as separate races,
though a colonial European imposition continues to
influence intellectual discourse in India. This is unfortunate
because it rests on scientifically discredited beliefs. Writing
as far back as 1939, Sir Julian Huxley, one of the great
natural scientists of the century, observed: In England and
America the phrase Aryan race has quite ceased to be
used by writers with scientific knowledge, though it appears
occasionally in political and propagandist literature. In
Germany, the idea of the Aryan race received no more
scientific support than in England. Nevertheless, it found
able and very persistent literary advocates who made it
appear very flattering to local vanity. It therefore steadily
spread, fostered by special conditions.
Huxley was referring of course to the rise of Nazism around
the notion of the Aryan race. It should make one suspicious
of the motives of the English, who, while denouncing racial
theories in Europe, continued to classify their Indian
subjects along racial lines. It was simply a politically
convenient tool in their divide and rule strategy. They
appealed to the vanity of one group to make them feel
superior to others (but still inferior to the English). They

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knew well that it had no scientific basis, but found it a

convenient tool for use in India!
British were by no means the only colonists to indulge in
such propaganda in the name of science. This idea of
dividing a conquered people in the name of race science
was a standard ploy of colonial officials and Christian
missionaries. Much of the bloodletting in ethnic conflicts in
Africa today is due to such mischief. Speaking of the recent
Hutu-Tutsi conflicts, the French anthropologist Jean-Pierre
Langellier wrote: The idea that the Hutus and the Tutsis
were physically different was first aired in the 1860s by the
British explorer John Speke The history of Rwanda [like
that of much of Africa] has been distorted by Pere Blancs
[White Fathers] missionaries, academics and colonial
administrators. They made the Tutsis out to be a superior
race, which had conquered the region and enslaved the
Hutus. Missionaries taught the Hutus that historical
fallacy, which was the result of racist European concepts
being applied to an African reality. At the end of the fifties,
the Hutus used that discourse to react against the Tutsis.
Sound familiar? The Aryan-Dravidian conflicts are a carbon
copy of the same racist divide, convert and conquer policy.
Fortunately that there is enough indigenous scholarship in
India to fight and refute such political charlatanism, though it
did succeed in dividing the people into mutually hostile
camps. This was mainly due to the patronage extended to
them by the ruling authorities first the British and then the
Marxist dominated Congress. Better sense is now
beginning to prevail. But to their eternal disgrace, the
Secularist and Marxist historians of India continue to
peddle this racist nonsense. They shall live in infamy.
The basic problem with these race theories is that they are
based not on any laws of nature, but man-made
classifications that use externally observable features. As
one scholar put it: The race concept has no scientific
basis. Given any two individuals one can regard them as
belonging to the same race by taking their common genetic
characteristics, or, on the contrary, as belonging to different
races by emphasizing the genetic characteristic in which
they differ. As an illustration, instead of choosing skin- and
eye color as defining parameters, if one were to choose
height and weight, one would end up with African Zulus and

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Scandinavians as belonging to the same race. Noting such

anomalies, Luigi Cavalli-Sforza, widely regarded as the
worlds foremost human geneticist, observed that such
external features simply indicate changes due to adaptation
to the environment. He points out that the rest of the
genetic makeup of the human family hardly differs at all.
There are similar misconceptions about Aryan and Dravidan
languages. The idea that different languages of a family
branched off from a single root language sometimes
called a proto-language can be traced to the story of the
Tower of Babel found in the Bible. Biblical beliefs like the
creation of the world on October 23, 4004 BC have had
great influence on the interpretation of Indian history and
culture by nineteenth century Europeans. The great Max
Muller himself admitted this Biblical belief was the reason
why he used 1500 BC as the date of the Aryan invasion.
W.W. Hunter, another well-known Indologist from the same
period was even more candid when he wrote:
scholarship is warmed with the holy flame of Christian zeal.
To take an example, Murray Emeneau, a prominent
Dravidianist, wrote as recently as 1954: At some time in
the second millennium BC, probably comparatively early in
the millennium, a band or bands of speakers of an
Indo-European language, later to be called Sanskrit,
entered India over the northwest passes. This is our
linguistic doctrine, which has been held now for more than a
century and a half. There seems to be no reason to distrust
the arguments for it, in spite of the traditional Hindu
ignorance of any such invasion. This is a statement based
on faith that has no place in science.

Cultural differences
Culturally the differences that we find between North and
South Indian temples can be attributed to the historical
experience of the last few centuries. The Islamic onslaught
destroyed centers of learning in North India. Alberuni who
accompanied Mahmud of Ghazni on his campaigns in India
wrote: Mahmud utterly ruined the prosperity of the country,
and performed there, wonderful exploits, by which the
Hindus became like atoms of dust scattered in all

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directions. Their scattered remains cherish, of course,

the most inveterate aversion of all the Muslims. This is the
reason, too, why Hindu sciences have retired far away from
those parts of the country conquered by us, and have fled
to places, which our hand cannot yet reach.
A historical fact worth noting that the last great school of
Indian mathematics flourished in far away Kerala in the
14-15th century, where Madhava and his students worked
on problems of Calculus and Infinite Series more than two
centuries before Newton and Gregory. India before the
coming of Islam had many great centers of learning. Taxila,
Nalanda, Vikramashila, Sarnath and many more used to
attract students from all over the world. Following the
establishment of the Delhi Sultanate, for the next six
hundred years, not a center of learning worth the name was
established. (I leave out Islamic theological centers.) It was
only in the nineteenth century that universities began to
reappear.
As a result, the influence of Islam has been much greater in
the North than the South. This resulted in a loss of tradition
and skills, which had to be more or less re-acquired
beginning in the 18th century. The main influence in the
north has been of the Moghul Empire, while in the south it
has been that of the Vijayanagar Empire and its successors
like the kingdoms of Mysore, Travancore and Tanjavur. It
would be a serious error to project this back into early
history something like projecting back the Portuguese
influence on Goa into the remote past.
At the same time, the differences should not be
exaggerated. For instance, in Kashmir, priests are recruited
from Karnataka, while temples in Nepal have priests from
Kerala. The very fact that Shakaracharya established
centers in all corners of India shows that he was not
considered an outsider by North Indians even in those
days.
All this brings us back to politics as the main contributor to
the Aryan-Dravidian divide including linguistics. The
originator of the Dravidian language theory was Bishop
Caldwell, the author of the highly influential Comparative
Grammar of Dravidian Languages (1856, 1875). He placed
Dravidian languages in what he called the Scythian

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Language Family. When another linguist (Gover) criticized

Caldwell for his unsound theories about the Scythian family
and Dravidian languages, it drew the following response: It
would have been well, if Mr. Gover had made himself sure
of perfectly apprehending Dr. Caldwells Scythic theory
before regarding its refutation as not only of
considerable moment from a philological point of view but of
vast moral and political importance.
By moral and political he obviously meant Christian
missionary and British colonial interests. To the disgrace of
Indian education authorities and secularist scholars, this is
still the version of history taught in Indian schools.

References
The Politics of History by N.S. Rajaram (1995), New Delhi:
Voice of India. The Vedic Dravidians in A Hindu View of the
World by N.S. Rajaram (1998), New Delhi: Voice of India.

Tags: Indian History, Indology, Marxist-Bias

Authored by: N S Rajaram

Website: http://en.wikipedia.org
/wiki/N._S._Rajaram
Shri N S Rajaram holds a Ph.D. degree in
mathematics from Indiana University, and has
published papers on statistics in the 1970s and
on artificial intelligence in the 1980s. Rajaram has
published on topics related to ancient Indian
history and Indian archaeology, alleging
Eurocentric bias in Indology and Sanskrit
scholarship, arguing within the "Indigenous
Aryans" ideology instead. Rajaram's work and
publications claim to expose the "lack of scientific
methodology" that has gone into the field of
Indology.

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