Looking Beyond The Indus Script: Story Of Vedic Harappans

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Looking Beyond The Indus Script: Story Of Vedic Harappans

By Prof. N. S. Rajaram
Monday, May 7, 2012

A decade since Jha and Rajaram presented their findings,
there have been significant developments that show that
the script was one piece of a larger picture that
connects Harappan archaeology to the Vedic literature,
and also to the natural history of the post Ice Age.
Navaratna Rajaram finds out more…

Indus seal with unicorn bull

In the year 2000 the late Natwar Jha and this writer
published abook called The Deciphered Indus Script:
methodology, readings, interpretations that offered a
solution to a vexing problem of ancient India— the
identity and culture of the people who created the vast
and advanced archaeological remains of the Harappan or
the Indus Valley civilization. At that time it was held
by some scholars, but by no means universally, that
Harappan archaeology was the creation of a people who
were the original inhabitants of India who were defeated
and driven south by an invading race of people called the
Aryas (or Aryans). For political reasons colonial
officials and missionaries identified these supposed
‘original’ inhabitants of India with the ‘Dravidian’
people of South India.

This is the famous, now infamous Aryan invasion theory
(AIT) invented by Western scholars of the colonial era.
Since they controlled the writing of textbooks, this
version of the Aryan invasion and the Aryan-Dravidian
conflicts became the official version of history taught
to children— a situation that continued after
independence. While science— first archaeology and then
genetics has discredited the theory, it has acquired
powerful political and academic interests that have
allowed this version to continue in textbooks and
universities, in both India and the West.

Continues at:

http://centreright.in/2012/05/looking-beyond-the-indus-script-story-of-vedic-harappans/#.T6c1rej9O71

Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti


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