WAS THERE EVER AN ARYAN INVASION ? A long 🧵but must read …

deliberate or otherwise, that suggests the Aryans were a nomadic people. One such misinterpretation is from the Rig-veda, which describes the battle between Sudas and the ten kings.

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The battle of the ten kings included the Pakthas, Bhalanas, Alinas, Shivas, Vishanins, Shimyus, Bhrigus, Druhyas,
Prithus, and Parshus, who fought against the Tritsus. The Prithus or Parthavas became the Parthians of latter-day Iran (247 B.C.B224 A.D.).

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The Parshus or Pashavas became the latter-day Persian

Western scholars could and did easily misinterpret this to mean an invasion of nomadic people called Aryans rather than simply a war in which the superior Aryan kings reestablished the spiritual values and the

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Vedic Aryan way of life.

Aryan invasion theory was hypothesized in the nineteenth century to explain the similarities found in Sanskrit and the languages of Europe. One person who reported
about this is Deen Chandora in his article, Distorted Historical Events and

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Discredited Hindu
Chronology, as it appeared in Revisiting Indus-Sarasvati Age and Ancient India (p. 383).

He explains that the idea of the Aryan invasion was certainly not a matter of misguided research, but was a
conspiracy to distribute deliberate misinformation

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that was formulated on April 10, 1866 in London at a secret meeting held in the Royal Asiatic Society.

This was to induct the theory of the Aryan invasion of India, so that no Indian may say that English are foreigners. . . India was ruled all along by outsiders and so the

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country must remain a slave under the benign Christian rule. This was a political move and this theory was put to solid use in all schools and colleges.

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So it was basically a linguistic theory adopted by the British colonial authorities to keep themselves in power. This theory suggested, more or less, that there was a race of superior, white Aryans who came in from the Caucasus Mountains and invaded the Indus region, and

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then established their culture, compiled their literature, and then proceeded to invade the rest of India.

SOURCE- Death of the Aryan Invasion Theory
By Stephen Knapp

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