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Myth of the Aryan Invasion of India

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Please, do not be put off by the reactionary responses of the other reviewers. Essentially, this book aids in pointing out that the so-called "Aryan Invasion of India" theory rests on flimsy evidence at best. If anyone is representing an agenda, it is examples such as the other reviewers, who insist on defending a theory which is clearly tenuous.

It is not related in Frawley's book, but is is little known that the myth of the Aryan race originated in the eighteenth century, and was influenced by occult theories of human origin, and the Kabbalah, a form of Jewish mysticism, thought to have been revealed to the earliest ages of humanity. Refusing to accept its Jewish origins, European scholars created the myth of the Aryan race, to attribute to themselves the propagation of this "Ancient Wisdom".

Resorting to the myth of the lost continent of Atlantis, it was here that the Aryan race was said to have been born. After escaping the cataclysm that submerged that continent, the Aryans supposedly escaped to the mountains of Asia. It was from there that they were to have set forth, conquering much of the known world, particularly India, where they are said to have been responsible for its caste system and its most ancient scriptures, the Vedas.

Today, these peoples are referred to as Caucasians or Indo-Europeans. Though supportive evidence of such an invasion is lacking, historians continue to maintain the occurence of such an invasion as fact. It is one clearly designed to further a political agenda, and one which needs to be duly eradicated, and it is for this reason that Mr. Frawley's book is helpful.

David Frwaley has done a great job of bringing some buried truths to light. The English colonialists divided India through their clandestine theory of aryan invasion. I would pose one question to proponents of aryan invasion theory: Where are the evidences which CONCLUSIVELY prove that aryans invaded India and destroyed Harappan civilization? I have read in history books (written by marxist historians) that Harappans did not know about horse. But 5000 year old Horse bones have been excavated at Harappa and other indus valley sites. A maritime civilzation dating back to 8000 years has been recently unearthed near Dholavira (Gujarat) which used seals strikingly similar to harappan seals. Above all the recent decipherment of Indus script by Shri N Jha and N S Rajaram is a final nail in its coffin. I would suggest that everyone should also read "Deciphered Indus Script" written by them. It has a clean and incontrovertible methodology which leads us to believe that something is terribly wrong with Aryan Invasion theory. Moreover the whole aryan invasion theory has its basis on Max mueller's 1500 BC date to Rig vedas. But the irony is that Max mueller himself, in his last years, suspected the date he assigned to rig veda (refer few of his letters).

This is a 74 page book that serves as an introduction to the myth of the AIT and lays out in very cogent terms the extremely precarious foundations of this travesty of archaeological and historical conclusions.

This book neither promises nor delivers air-tight proof. That is left for other, more lengthy books on the subject by this author and others who share his passion. Inquisitive readers, who will want more information, will do well to read these books that systematically drive nails into the AIT coffin.

Highly recommended as an introduction to the AIT and the issues that make it ring false.

As an aside: This is a must-read for all you Black Metal neo-fascist/nationalist white people. As someone who has followed and enjoyed BM for many years now, I have come across many of your ilk. Before you so hastily label yourself Aryan - read this book and get your history right.

Also: One Amazon page credits a certain Mukhtar Naqvi for this book. I don't know why that is so. There is no evidence of his being involved whatsoever with this book.

This is a great book for people from the indian subcontinent to identify with their real roots and also an eye-opener for the western population to realise the veracity of the myth they have been living with for so many years.

"I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by 'arisch'. I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-Iranian; as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects. ... But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people"..(J. R. R. Tolkien)
" I have declared again and again that if I say Aryas, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair, nor skull; I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language... to me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar." (Max Muller)

I admit I've never read this book but heard alot about the AIV theory. When europeans were colonizing africa the probably didn't feel much guilt because in their mind they, the africans, were uncivilized. But, they didn't feel that way about India. So they needed a reason to legitimise their accupation. thus the AIV theory was born.
I often hear evidence such of ash, destroyed village, and smashed skeletons. That's still no evidence. Genghis Khan desroyed village, that don't make him nordic, so did the aztecs.
The greeks and Roman never called themselves "aryan".

Feeble revisionist attempt to refute the Aryan invasion theory using selective evidence and creative interpretation. Frawley discounts genetic evidence citing the prescence of only 5.2% European genes in the modern Indian population. He fails to inform his readers that this genetic inheritance is concentrated almost exclusively among the elite brahmin caste and to an even greater extent among the Kshatriya warrior caste. The genetic evidence, in fact, clearly supports the theory of an invasion of Indo-European barbarians, of which Frawley cannot be unaware.
Frawley furthermore sees fit to pronounce upon subjects he clearly has no knowledge of. Frawley claims that chariots could not have been brought to India across the Hindu Kush because chariots were a form of urban transport unsuitable for mountain travel. Far from being a means of urban transport, chariots were an indespensable and expensive weapon of war and as such would be dismantled and transported over vast rivers, seas and mountains.
Frawley sinks further by endorsing the evidence of N.S Rajaram for the pre- Aryan prescence of the horse in India. Evidence roundly denounced as fake in the Indian Media and subsequently admitted to be, "computer enhanced"
Frawley ignores the considerable archeological evidence of invasion, layers of ash, mutilated skeletons the prescence of Hyksos weapons etc.
The bullk of his evidence depends upon imaginative interpretations of obscure texts. Buy this book and file it next to Black Athene on your science-fantasy shelf.

AS THE TITLE IMPLIES FRAWLEY BELIEVES THE ARYAN INVASION OF INDIA IS NOTHING MORE THAN A MYTH AND SETS OUT TO TRY TO PROVE IT WITH SHOWING THAT ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE AS YET DISCOVERED NO ANCIENT SKELETAL REMAINS THAT DIFFER FROM THE PRESENT POPULATION AND THAT IF THE ARYANS WERE BEHIND THE RIG VEDA THEN WHY IS THERE NO REFERENCE TO THEIR PREVIOUS HOMELAND AND ALSO WHY ARE THERE REFERENCES TO THE SARASVATI AS A FLOWING RIVER WHEN THAT RIVER DRIED UP PRIOR TO THE STANDARD ARRIVAL DATE OF THE ARYANS WHICH IS 1500 B.C.WELL MAYBE THATS BECAUSE THE STANDARD ARRIVAL DATE FOR THE ARYANS IN INDIA IS TO LATE AND THAT THE REASON THEY HAVEN'T FOUND ANY ANCIENT SKELETAL REMAINS OF PEOPLE THAT DIFFER FROM THE PRESENT POPULATION OF INDIA IS BECAUSE THEY CREMATED THEIR DEAD WHICH IS A BURIAL PRACTICE COMMONLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE ARYANS AND STILL PRACTISED BY THE HINDUS OF TODAY.AND CONCERNING THE RIG VEDA THE REASON THERE IS NO REFERENCS IN IT TO THEIR PREVIOUS HOMELAND WHICH I BELIEVE IS CENTRAL ASIA IS BECAUSE THE RIG VEDA HYMNS WHERE COMPILED IN INDIA HUNDREDS OF YEARS LATER BY THEIR DESCENDANTS AND THAT WILL EXPLAIN WHY THERE ARE REFERENCES TO OCEANS WHICH THE AUTHOR ALSO USES AS EVIDENCE AGAINST THEIR CENTRAL ASIAN ORIGINS.AND I ALSO THINK HE DOWNPLAYS THE PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE NORTHERN MORE ARYAN AND SOUTHERN MORE DRAVIDIAN POPULATIONS OF INDIA BY STATING THAT ONLY SKIN COLOUR IS DIFFERENT WHEN IT IS ALSO BONE STRUCTURE THAT IS DIFFERNT ESPECIALLY AMONG THE HIGHER CASTE HINDUS.