Author: Surendra Ulla
Publication: India Post News Service
Date: February 17, 2008
URL: http://indiapost.com/article/communitypost/2090/
An eminent Indologist and a visiting professor
at the University of Houston, Dr Pramod Pathak has challenged the basis of
age old theory perpetrated by Western scholars about the invasion by Aryans
in India and of driving the Dasuys South ward.Talking to the media in Chicago,
Dr Pathak said that his study and research revealed that the Aryan invasion
theory is a myth and it is perpetuated by the English scholars from the time
of their invasion of India in the 17th century.The British regime fabricated
the history of India to suit their motive to establish and perpetuate their
political, social and religions institutions in India.
They would succeed in their nefarious game
because they had both the political power and opportunity to misguide the
Indian people. It is now an accepted historical fact that Max Muller promoted
the invasion theory and accordingly formulated the dates of Vedic origin and
the differences in Aryan and Dravidian cultures so that English rulers could
divide the societies bringing out the issues of race and color.Max Muller,
according to historians was a British employee, specially appointed to rewrite
the history of India.
This becomes obvious as one refers to Lord
McCauley, who wrote that in order to perpetuate the English rule and institutions
in India they should "produce such a group of people, who would be Indian
in blood and color, but English in taste, opinion and intellect."Explaining
the genesis of the subject, he said that when he was working for his Ph.D.
thesis he came across the hymn II.34 in the Atharva Veda in praise of the
God Pashupati. It praises the Lord of beasts - Pashupati, who historians later
considered as the master of quadruped and bipeds.
He immediately correlated it with the famous
Pashupati seal form the Indus Culture and presented a paper in the Archaeological
conference, which was well received. It appeared that the seal was pictorial
representation of the AV hymn II.34. It led him to consider the possibility
that followers of Atharva Veda were part of the Indus culture. Dwelling further
on this aspect he continued to observe that in the Rigveda there were conflicting
entities, namely Aryans and Dasas. Rig-Vedic hymns describe that Indra destroyed
ninety-nine "pur"s of Dasas.
These "pur"s are described as "ayasi"
i.e. metallic.According to the current and prevailing views, Aryans invaded
India, destroyed the culture there and established their hegemony. Their main
enemies were the "Dasa" people. Dr Pathak said, "I had the
opportunity to study the Indo-Iranian texts. These texts mention people called
"Daha", "Dahae" or Dasa. These Daha people belonged to
the southern part of Iran. I then came across references to the tribe called
"Dahamarda" stayingin the Seistan province of Afghanistan.
Their villages were named as "Deh"
i.e. "Desha" and name of one village was "Dah bashi Deh".
It is fully Sanskrit origin name i.e. "Dasa Bhashi Desha". It raised
doubts as to whether the enemies of the Aryans were in India or in South Afghanistan.Further
studies in the environment of Afghanistan revealed that very intense winds
blow in Afghanistan for four months.
These are known as "Bad-isad-o-bist".
According to some Iranian sources this name is of Sanskrit origin. "Bad"
is "Vata" i.e. wind, " Sad" is Shata and "bista"
is "vimshati" i.e. twenty. All that meant winds of hundred and twenty
days i.e. exactly the four months. These winds have resulted in great erosion
of the landscape in the deserts of central and south western Afghanistan and
created thousands of small circular butts or hillocks formed due to wind erosion.
These are capped with stone cover of red stones,
called Suhr-da-Gall i.e. red earth in local language. There was an excellent
paper by Wilhelm Rau "Meaning of Purs in the Vedic literature".
He concluded that Vedic "Pur"s do not represent well laid cities
of Indus but were temporary shelters made of stones. All this information
fitted so well to confirm that Dasas of the Rig-Vedic lore were the people
from Seistan, Afghanistan.
Their temporary bastions were the "Pur"s
destroyed by Indra as mentioned the Vedas. These evidences greatly changed
my opinion, which I had learnt as a student and even after. So the idea that
Aryans invaded India and enslaved local people, whom they called Dravidians
were definitely preplanned and perpetrated on the Indian subjects by the British
rulers with ulterior motives of advancing their interest of promoting their
own religious and educational values, said Dr Pramod Pathak.Dr Parhak is a
Visiting Professor at the University of Houston and conducted courses on History
and Culture of India.
He is the founder member of the Mahatma Gandhi
Library at Houston and invited lecturer at the interfaith meets and Unity
Church at Houston. He has written eight books and several research articles
on the Vedic and Ideological topics and on Ramayana. He is an expert on the
Indus culture seals and has given interpretations of these.He studied the
history of Ancient Afghanistan and wrote a book "The Afghan Connection"
based on these studies.
It deals with pre-Buddhist ethno-archaeology
of Afghanistan. The idea that Sanskrit was an alien language and a Central
Asian Race (Aryan) invaded India and brought with them their language, Sanskrit
was promoted by Western scholars in order to show that Aryans were also invaders
like Greeks, Huns, Arabs, Mughals and later English and Europeans.
They wanted to deny that India from time immemorial
was called, "Aryavart". Its inhabitants were called Aryas and the
ancient borders of India extended up to Iran. So the ancient Iranians continue
to called themselves as Aryans. The details of these and many other findings
on the Vedic entities are to be found in his book, "The Afghan Connection".
