IIT-Kharagpur calendar calls Aryan invasion a myth https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/iit-calendar-on-aryan-invasion-myth-is-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-professor/article38065010.ece
Damini Nath , DECEMBER 29, 2021
The calendar, titled “Recovery of the Foundations of Indian Knowledge Systems”, covers the topics of “recognition of the secret of the Vedas” and “reinterpretation of the Indus Valley Civilisation”, apart from the portion on the ‘Aryan invasion’.
The claims made in the calendar came in for severe criticism on social media from writers and those who have been engaged with the issue. Author of the book Early Indians Tony Joseph commented on Twitter on December 26 about “the distressing transformation of centres of excellence”. He cited the 2019 genetic study ‘The Formation of Human Populations in South & Central Asia’ which, he stated, was an example of the “strong, multi-disciplinary evidence for migration of Central Asian Steppe pastoralists into the Indian subcontinent between 2,000 and 1,500 BCE”.
According to Professor Sen, the wrong information in textbooks had “destroyed pillars of national confidence”. “The people with a real scientific bent of mind have appreciated the calendar. There will always be an uncle in the family who is conditioned in the old ways who will have a problem,” he observed.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/iit-calendar-on-aryan-invasion-myth-is-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-professor/article38065010.ece/amp/ The claims made in the calendar came in for severe criticism on social media from writers and those who have been engaged with the issue. Author of the book Early Indians Tony Joseph commented on Twitter on December 26 about “the distressing transformation of centres of excellence”. He cited the 2019 genetic study ‘The Formation of Human Populations in South & Central Asia’ which, he stated, was an example of the “strong, multi-disciplinary evidence for migration of Central Asian Steppe pastoralists into the Indian subcontinent between 2,000 and 1,500 BCE”.
THE ARYAN INVASION MYTH THAT NEVER WAS – Part 1 by Prof. Joy Sen, IIT Kharagpur https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_EZOgvZZQs Aug 26, 2019 Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9XGcX0QBeI
THE ARYAN INVASION MYTH THAT NEVER WAS – Part 1 (Body of 7 evidences): Prof. Joy Sen in conversation with Research Scholars Ms. Tanima Bhattacharya and Mouli Majumdar and Technical research assistant Mr. Utsab Putatunda
The Aryan Invasion Myth can be disapproved in terms of seven evidences, mainly,
1) The existence of a double ladder of historical chronology (both involution and evolution-driven and following a cyclic pattern of Golden-to-Iron ages in the Vedic literature as against the Darwinian or linear mode of western paradigm of evolution only);
2) The primacy / presence of the supreme God as the Mother, i.e., Aditi, Matariswan, Vak, Illa, Saraswati, Mahi and many others, as against the male chauvinistic predominance in Western and Semitic religions;
3) The realization (gnosis or becoming to being) of Original divinity by the Vedic seers (every soul is potentially divine/ the latent presence of Chaitya Purusha) as against the separation of mind and body based on the idea of ‘Original sin’ in Western and Semitic religions;
4) The antiquity of the 2nd portion of the Atharva Veda (Bhargabi or Samhita of Kavya Ushana/ Sukracharya) as the very Gatha of Prophet Zarathusthra, who has been dated by a large handful of 500 – 200 BCE Green historians like Diogenes, Plutarch, Plato and others, to a time that is 5000 BCE prior to the Battle of Troy (1187 BCE) – which is also a date that defies Western tradition of Aryan invasion (1700 BCE);
5) the eastern primacy of languages (syntax, semantics and semiotics) and civilization in regions east of Chandraketugarh, Chandipur, Chandpur and Chandranath (undivided Bengal or West Bengal, Bangladesh and Tripura), which have been traced as the seat of the lunar dynasty (Chandravamsi kings of Ilas/ Ailas); and this is quite in opposition or reciprocal to the Western predominance of the role of Indus Valley civilization in Indian history;
6) A key role of the twin intender (absolute and positional) of India’s mathematical system and number system consisting of a) sunya (cipher (zero or 0)) and b) adwaitam (unity and 1) that inspired Voltaire, Laplace, Kepler and Galileo; as Muhammad bin-Al-Khwarashmi first translated the Indian books on mathematics in Sanskrit to Arabic, and then by others to Latin in Iberia ; proves the dasam and dasagwa of the 10th system of the Rig Veda is the foundation of binary and decimal systems; and
7) the impact of the descent of Sri Aurobindo’s Hierarchy of Minds and Maslow’s hierarchy of Needs on the role of evolution (catharsis, therapeutics, purgation) in Indian music is original and pioneering – leading to a departure from Melody (Omkar to Ragas) to Harmony in early Greek Music (Lydian, Lycian, Locrian and others), which was much before later Western Musical structure on dispersed harmonic system was formed.
Additionally, the presentation upholds the fact that the semantics and semiotics of the symbol of Vedic Swastika, which is also a key seal in the Indus Valley civilization, makes the two time periods complementary and synonymous, along with other symbols like the unicorn, nava-graha-mandala (nine square matrix) and others.
New approaches of decoding symbols of the past has been forwarded by the Science and Heritage initiative (SandHI), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Even though races have in-migrated and out-migrated to and from the greater Indian sub-continent, it does not matter. Evidences by virtue of racial supremacy and genetics are therefore no good to establish the sovereign ideals of altruism, universal assimilation, acceptance and philanthropy based on the complete Vedic spiritual realization of the Rishis (seers and sages).
The seven evidences collectively disapprove the forgery and manipulation of the Aryan invasion Myth leveraged by the Colonial rulers, and still finding a place in our history and allied text books in India. Once the mistakes and the forgery are erased, a spirit of true national confidence shall be restored. But more important is an opening of all humanity to the greatest of ideals that the Aryan Rishis had realized and practiced.
Slide presentation in the previous video - with commentary by Prof Sen.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6HDSInpUhU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcxJlGXe7wA Prof Romila Thapar on how History should be approached and the Aryans- Part 5 Feb 13, 2015
Professor Romila Thapar in Conversation with Teesta Setalvad ( Full Interview) Mar 10, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCDnX2DMu8M In an exhaustive and incisive interview Professor Romila Thapar, Emeritus Professor of History at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi and Hon D.Litt in both the University of Oxford and University of Chicago speaks to Teesta Setalvad in her special show on Communalism Combat.