“Aryans” are indigenous to India; they did not originate from outside India. In fact, the word “Aryans” is wrongly used to mean a race of people. It has no racial connotation. It is derived from the Sanskrit word “Arya” meaning noble or righteousness. People from any country can fit this description, such as people from Asia, Europe, etc. The people in India who are referred to as “Aryans” in India instead should be referred to as vedic people.

Europeans, in particular the British in India, first started to use the word “Aryan” with reference to their “divide and rule” policy. When they became aware of the wisdom of Indians, from Indian texts of profound value, they decided to concoct the “Aryan Invasion Theory”(AIT) so that they would attribute that wisdom to the invaders who are alleged to have arrived in 1500 BC. It was the policy of the British to change the Indian mindset so that there would be no trace of their past glory. The British treated the Indian people as barbaric in every sense of the word and could not accept that they had a superior civilisation in ancient times. Apart from this, India was the richest country in the world for up to 1700 AD (apart from being overtaken by China for a brief period). This is corroborated by the late Prof. Angus Maddison, the Cambridge economist. The British also destroyed the Indian education system with a school in nearly every village, when in Britain there was hardly any public education system. In its place, the British introduced English education for a very small number of elite Indians to help them in the administration of India by appointing them to the lowest positions below Europeans, most of whom were inferior to the Indians in intellect.

The invading “Aryans” were said to have brought with them their Hindu religion, the caste system and their Sanskrit language. However, no where any place was specifically pinpointed from where they came. The German nationalist, Max Muller, who was employed by the British as a Sanscritist at Oxford University, was the person who propounded the AIT for the British. After arriving, it is claimed, that the alleged invaders were the authors of all the Vedic texts, such as the Rig Veda, which allegedly was composed in 1200 BC. It is absolutely clear that there is no truth in this as the very contents of the Rig Veda are enough to demolish this argument in the most decisive manner. Mention is made about the Saraswati River about some 60 places in the Rig Veda when that river was flowing in its full glory. However, that river started to dry up since around 3000 BC, according to the Mahabharata, and has been completely dried up by 1900 BC, at least 6 centuries before 1200 BC the date when the Rig Veda was alleged to have been composed by the invading “Aryans”. If any one wishes to allege that this river was a myth, no reliance any longer can be placed on it as NASSA has proved by images from space that the Saraswati Rive did exist before 1900 and there is ample evidence in the form of images taken from space to support the contention. This was a factual river that had existed in the past. In addition to this important piece of evidence to demolish the AIT, many western and Indian scholars have written articles to demolish the AIT. A few names of these scholars are Dr David Frawley, Stephen Knapp, Dr N.S. Rajaram and Talagari. To use the words of Stephen Knapp, the AIT has been confined to the dustbin of history. I have written extensively in my own books to demolish the very idea of the AIT,

In the most remote ancient times there were migrations of Sanskrit-speaking people to countries such as Greece and Egypt. Such migrations were probably due to natural disasters, such as the reason for the drying up of the Saraswati River. Evidence of such migrations can be found in the book “India in Greece…” by Edward Pococke published in 1852 and is on the internet. Indians had a colony in Greece and perhaps in other countries as well. Some of the migrants or their descendants might have returned to India if they had encountered problems with the indigenous population.

To conclude, the word “Aryans” is wrongly used as it has no racial connotation. People in India who may be described wrongly as “Aryans” are indigenous to India; they did not originate from outside India. Dr Nat Khublall