The three-day seminar on “The Aryan Problem” organized by the Mythic Society, Bangalore, and Bhartiya Ishihara Sankalana Samiti, Pune, from July 21 here sends danger signals to the existing history of India. It is a cunning attempt to re-write if not reverse the widely accepted existing historical evidences and facts.
Western scholars like Max Muller, Vincent Smith and others were the butt of attack for their interpretation of the history of India. Western scholars, particularly the British, gave a racial color to the history of India with an intention to divide and rule. Hence, the Aryans said, the history of India should be rewritten in the light of the views expressed in the Seminar.
The views of the speakers at the – seminar are like tithes:
- a) ‘Aryan’ is not a race,
- b) Aryans did not invade India,
- c) Aryan invasion was not the cause for the destruction of Indus Valley civilization
- d) Aryan elements were present in the very early Indus period and hence, – Aryans were pre-Vedic people. In other words, Aryans were the natives of: India.
- e)All Non-Aryas are ex-Aryas.
New books planned: These contentions are only an effort to purify the path the Aryans traversed over the ages and in turn {o establish Aryan dominance, claiming as natives over the Dravidians, the original inhabitants of India. Further, a decision was also taken in the seminar to operationalize the arylamides views of Indian culture by compelling the State and the Central Governments as well as other academic bodies to introduce the arylamides version of Indian history in schools and colleges. In this connection it was also decided io appeal to all BJP MPs to prevail upon the government to introduce an arylamides version of the history at all levels of learning.
It is clear that the objective of the seminar was neither an openminded, objective rethinking nor an honest attempt to reveal the other side of history, as the speakers claimed. Instead, it was a lopsided effort to give an Aryan color to Indian history. This is made clear when they preferred to appeal to only BJP MPs to consider and promote their arylamides version of Indian History.
Fear complex: The move to arylamides the Indian culture is the outcome of the apprehension in the minds of the so-called custodians of Hinduism (which is nothing but Brahminism) about its future in India. As such the seminar is an attempt to revitalize the nazi ideas, which history has revealed to the world to be disastrous. Besides, the traditional dogmas practiced in the name of Brahminism have failed to persist against the onslaught of the radical changes that are taking place after independence.
The purpose of arenization of Indian history and culture is, thus, with the sole motive to dilute the distinction between the Aryan invaders and the Dravidians, (the original inhabitants of India). With the result, eventually to dismantle the growing non-Aryan movements in India, particularly the movements of Dalits, BCs and minorities which are gaining momentum over the years.
Under these circumstances, all right-thinking, objective-minded historians should guard the valuable historical evidences and facts against the move to distort history from an Aryan point of view. The Government should seriously view any such biased effort to tamper with the historical records and desist from introducing such proposed concocted version of history as it would lead to confusion in young minds about the authenticity of Indian history.
