Let us give a clarion call to those, even if they in a minority now, and take first step in reestablishing our social, cultural and religious way of life, which is intrinsically secular, democratic, at the same time reassert our values and stop all kinds of activities hurting Sanatana Hindu Dharma. We shall let those live in harmoy with us who let all of us live in mutual respect and abide by our laws to be proclaimed by our new way of life.

I HOPE TO READ MORE FROM YOU ALL!

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AIS is non political/non religious/ non profit institute to promote awareness of Sindhu Saraswati Civilization in the USA and else where. AIS is anxious to reach out and encourage our 3/4 th generation in theireducation and knowledge about our ancient civilization.

AIS will circulate Mr. Nithin Shridhar’s article to its net work. Great educational article.

Anyone reading the Themes on website will clearly come to the conclusion that the Aryan Invasion Theory of India is false and was designed as a propagandist hoax.

We will of course look forward to articles from the learned and eminent personalities like Koenraad Elst , David Frawley and other great writers such as Gautier and we hope Tattav will not fail to invite all such celebrated thinkers to contribute so that such ugly propaganda does not rear its vicious head again

The English Rulers were smart. They not only planted the Story in the garb of history in order to show that Indians are incapable of governing themselves and it is always the foreigners who came to their rescue and it was, as they put it, the foreign Aryan who displaced the dark and terrible misery of India and so it is that the Britsh and Muslims came again to civilize Indians and bring enlightenment to them. The British saw to it that Indian teachers, professors, writers, historians, commentators and others were well paid to subscribe to that theory with scholarships, promotions, Government-aid, official praise and publication of their works. Thus, with Government patronage, hundreds of voices rose to claim the ‘truth’ of the Aryan Invasion Theory of India. Did they offer any proof? It was not necessary. With so many hundreds of articles and books supporting the Aryan Invasion Theory of India , who could ask for Proof? - how could so many learned books and serious articles by countless British and Indian historians be wrong!

True, Swami Vivekanand, Lokmanya Tilak, Veer Savarkar, Gurudev Rabindra Nath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo and others, questioned the theory but their comments were ignored as they were staunch nationalists and no doubt had a nationalistic outlook.

In any case, the problem always was and is: how do you disprove a theory without writing about those times? It can only be dismissed when you know the context and the period in which such an event is said to have occurred.

Fortunately, very fortunately, one writer – but only one - has come forward to write about those pre-Vedic times in which this False theory was supposed to have come to life. The writer is Bhagwan S. Gidwani and his book is ‘RETURN of the ARYANS’ published by Penguin Books in India. This book gives a mortal body-blow to the Aryan Invasion Theory of India. But the book has a much larger theme and canvas. Its 1,000 pages tell the fascinating story of the Birth and Beginnings of the roots of Hinduism (Sanatan Dharma) with a thrilling account of how, in 5,000 BC, the Aryans originated from India, and from nowhere else - and why they moved out of their home-land; their trials and triumphs overseas; and finally their return to India. Thus, Gidwani demolishes the theory of Aryan invasion of India. He traces the Hindu ancestry of Aryans from 8,000 BC, and shows that Aryans were born, grew up, and died as citizens of Bharat Varsha, anchored in the timeless foundation of Sanatan Dharma. With equal clarity, the Book also demolishes the theory of North/South Divide, and shows how the people of Ganga, Madhya, Sindhu, Bangla and other regions were together with the Dravidian regions, in a spirit of equality and mutual respect, as a part of Bharat Varsha (India).
Clearly, ‘RETURN of the ARYANS’ explains how the racial differences, like the skin colour, between North Indians and South Indians arose, and how Sanskrit has some words with foreign origin unlike Tamil. The book also shows how Bharat Varsha of 5,000 BC was far more extensive than the present-day territory of India, Pakistan & Bangladesh, as it included additionally Avagana (Afghanistan), parts of Iran, beyond Lake Namaskar (now known as Namaksar), where many Hindu hermits resided; in North, Bharat Varsha territory went across soaring peaks of Himalayas to Tibet to reach Lake Mansarovar, Mount Kailash, upto the source of mighty Sindhu and Brahmaputra rivers, and beyond; Also, Bharat Varsha included Land of Brahma (Burma) and beyond; Kashmir; Lands of Sadhu Newar (Nepal); Bhoota (Bhutan); and Land of Vraon (Sri Lanka).

Note also that RETURN of the ARYANS’ covers a vast panorama to reveal dramatic stories behind the origins of Om, Namaste, Swastika, Gayatri Mantra, and Soma Wines. It tells how Tamil and Sanskrit developed, and how they influenced world-languages; also it has tales of discovery and disappearance of Saraswati River, and founding of Ganga, Dravidian, and Sindhu civilizations; the battles and blood-shed that led to fall and rise of Benaras, Hardwar, and many cities. Besides, Gidwani sheds light on pre-history establishment of legal and constitutional systems; development of ships and harbours; gold-mining; chariots; Yoga; mathematics; astronomy; medicine; surgery; music, dance, drama, art and architecture; and material advancement of the pre-ancient India.

The book speaks of ideals that took shape in those early times, to become the foundation of Sanatana Dharma - and among those ideals were: recognition of spiritual nature of man, wherever he is from; acceptance of every culture as an expression of eternal values; and man’s obligation to respect and protect environment, and all creatures, tame and wild.

Gidwani also explains how the country came to be known as Bharat Varsha.

Unfortunately, ‘RETURN of the ARYANS’ has not been presented as a formal historical text as the author has chosen to present it in story-form with even dialogues to fully focus on the drama of those times and hence has, withintegrity and objectivity, marked it as fictional, though fully explaining the extent of the fiction in the Preface. This has given a handle to Hindu Organizations and others to dismiss the book and as some one has said these organizations suffer from some dogma while all other dogma-ridden faiths and religions fully use novels and dramatic presentations to advance their message.
Even so, why do our organizations fail to advance to research our history thoroughly. Why should ‘RETURN of the ARYANS’ be the one and only book to deal with our pre-Vedic times? This book shows a settled Society in our Pre-Vedic times. It shows that
1. Bharat Varsha is the most ancient civilization in the world - more ancient than China, Japan, Mesopotamia, Iran and Egypt.
2. Bharat Varsha, was there before Rome was built, and before Jerusalem, Carthage, Greece, Damascus and Istanbul were founded
3. It has tales of battles and romance, adventures and exploits, valor and sacrifice, art and culture, of Pre-Vedic India, well before the dawn of recorded history.
4. When Europeans lived in caves, our people had two-story houses of brick and stone, with drainage system, public parks, public baths, art-works, fountains and granaries.
5. Our ancestors founded the ancient order of Sanatanah, well before 8,000 BC, and again, along the banks of Sindhu, from this root of Sanatanah sprang Sanatana Dharma, the ageless religion of the Hindus
There is much more I could add to bring out the glory and greatness of Bharat Varsha as told in ‘RETURN of the ARYANS. But let this suffice.
I conclude with the hope that TATTAVA will be the foremost among the organizations to promote the idea of a thorough research of our pre-ancient civilization in Pre-Vedic times. Meanwhile my congratulations to Nithin Sridhar for his fine article and the articles by the eminent personalities like Koenraad Elst and David Frawley, to whom others have referred.

The English Rulers were smart. They not only planted the Story in the garb of history in order to show that Indians are incapable of governing themselves and it is always the foreigners who came to their rescue and it was, as they put it, the foreign Aryan who displaced the dark and terrible misery of India and so it is that the Britsh and Muslims came again to civilize Indians and to bring enlightenment to them. The British saw to it that Indian teachers, professors, writers, historians, commentators and others were well paid to subscribe to that theory with scholarships, promotions, Government-aid, official praise and publication of their works. Thus, with Government patronage, hundreds of voices rose to claim the ‘truth’ of the Aryan Invasion Theory of India. Did they offer any proof? It was not necessary. With so many hundreds of articles and books supporting the Aryan Invasion Theory of India , who could ask for Proof? - how could so many learned books and serious articles by countless British and Indian historians be wrong!

True, Swami Vivekanand, Lokmanya Tilak, Veer Savarkar, Gurudev Rabindra Nath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo and others, questioned the theory but their comments were ignored as they were staunch nationalists and no doubt had a nationalistic outlook.

In any case, the problem always was and is: how do you disprove a theory without writing about those times? It can only be dismissed when you know the context and the period in which such an event is said to have occurred.

Fortunately, very fortunately, one writer – but only one - has come forward to write about those pre-Vedic times in which this False theory was supposed to have come to life. The writer is Bhagwan S. Gidwani and his book is ‘RETURN of the ARYANS’ published by Penguin Books in India. This book gives a mortal body-blow to the Aryan Invasion Theory of India. But the book has a much larger theme and canvas. Its 1,000 pages tell the fascinating story of the Birth and Beginnings of the roots of Hinduism (Sanatan Dharma) with a thrilling account of how, in 5,000 BC, the Aryans originated from India, and from nowhere else - and why they moved out of their home-land; their trials and triumphs overseas; and finally their return to India. Thus, Gidwani demolishes the theory of Aryan invasion of India. He traces the Hindu ancestry of Aryans from 8,000 BC, and shows that Aryans were born, grew up, and died as citizens of Bharat Varsha, anchored in the timeless foundation of Sanatan Dharma. With equal clarity, the Book also demolishes the theory of North/South Divide, and shows how the people of Ganga, Madhya, Sindhu, Bangla and other regions were together with the Dravidian regions, in a spirit of equality and mutual respect, as a part of Bharat Varsha (India).
Clearly, ‘RETURN of the ARYANS’ explains how the racial differences, like the skin colour, between North Indians and South Indians arose, and how Sanskrit has some words with foreign origin unlike Tamil. The book also shows how Bharat Varsha of 5,000 BC was far more extensive than the present-day territory of India, Pakistan & Bangladesh, as it included additionally Avagana (Afghanistan), parts of Iran, beyond Lake Namaskar (now known as Namaksar), where many Hindu hermits resided; in North, Bharat Varsha territory went across soaring peaks of Himalayas to Tibet to reach Lake Mansarovar, Mount Kailash, upto the source of mighty Sindhu and Brahmaputra rivers, and beyond; Also, Bharat Varsha included Land of Brahma (Burma) and beyond; Kashmir; Lands of Sadhu Newar (Nepal); Bhoota (Bhutan); and Land of Vraon (Sri Lanka).

Note also that RETURN of the ARYANS’ covers a vast panorama to reveal dramatic stories behind the origins of Om, Namaste, Swastika, Gayatri Mantra, and Soma Wines. It tells how Tamil and Sanskrit developed, and how they influenced world-languages; also it has tales of discovery and disappearance of Saraswati River, and founding of Ganga, Dravidian, and Sindhu civilizations; the battles and blood-shed that led to fall and rise of Benaras, Hardwar, and many cities. Besides, Gidwani sheds light on pre-history establishment of legal and constitutional systems; development of ships and harbours; gold-mining; chariots; Yoga; mathematics; astronomy; medicine; surgery; music, dance, drama, art and architecture; and material advancement of the pre-ancient India.

The book speaks of ideals that took shape in those early times, to become the foundation of Sanatana Dharma - and among those ideals were: recognition of spiritual nature of man, wherever he is from; acceptance of every culture as an expression of eternal values; and man’s obligation to respect and protect environment, and all creatures, tame and wild.

Gidwani also explains how the country came to be known as Bharat Varsha.

Unfortunately, ‘RETURN of the ARYANS’ has not been presented as a formal historical text as the author has chosen to present it in story-form with even dialogues to fully focus on the drama of those times and hence has, withintegrity and objectivity, marked it as fictional, though fully explaining the extent of the fiction in the Preface. This has given a handle to Hindu Organizations and others to dismiss the book; and as some one has said these organizations suffer from some dogma while all other dogma-ridden faiths and religions fully use novels and dramatic presentations to advance their message.
Even so, why do our organizations fail to advance to research our history thoroughly. Why should ‘RETURN of the ARYANS’ be the one and only book to deal with our pre-Vedic times? This book shows a settled Society in our Pre-Vedic times. It shows that
1. Bharat Varsha is the most ancient civilization in the world - more ancient than China, Japan, Mesopotamia, Iran and Egypt.
2. Bharat Varsha, was there before Rome was built, and before Jerusalem, Carthage, Greece, Damascus and Istanbul were founded
3. It has tales of battles and romance, adventures and exploits, valor and sacrifice, art and culture, of Pre-Vedic India, well before the dawn of recorded history.
4. When Europeans lived in caves, our people had two-story houses of brick and stone, with drainage system, public parks, public baths, art-works, fountains and granaries.
5. Our ancestors founded the ancient order of Sanatanah, well before 8,000 BC, and again, from this root of Sanatanah sprang Sanatana Dharma, the ageless religion of the Hindus

There is much more I could add to bring out the glory and greatness of Bharat Varsha as told in ‘RETURN of the ARYANS. But let this suffice.

I conclude with the hope that TATTAVA will be the foremost among the organizations to promote the idea of a thorough research of our pre-ancient civilization in Pre-Vedic times. Meanwhile my congratulations to Nithin Sridhar for his excellent article and Bhagwat Shah for his great contribution. I too shall await articles from the emient personalities like Koenraad Elst and David Frawley to whom others have referred.

“The history of India has been whitewashed and distorted, first by European rulers, and after independence by eminent historians of India and their supporters the Leftists, Seculars and self-claimed Progressives of India to meet their own ends. They have painted the pre-Islamic invasion period as a Dark Age and have glorified the Islamic period to be very peaceful and prosperous.. . ”

The above statement is undoubtedly correct. BUT THE QUESTION ONE MUST ASK IS: Who do we blame? If enemies are throwing stones at us, should not our own people do something to put a stop to it? Or is it some strange form of AHIMSA we have got in our brains that we should not put a stop to stones being flung at us by our enemies but instead we should shed tears and loudly cry out to public that stones are being flung at us by enemies.

The fault, I submit, is ours. Enemies will do what enemies are supposed to do. But if we have self-respect and legitimate pride, we should retaliate or at least expose their lies, fabrications and propaganda. If we cannot do that, then there is something fundamentally wrong with us.

I am glad that David Frawley, Koenraad Elstand many others who originally belonged to foreign cultures but have taken to heart the Hindu cause and faith, are doing so much against ‘Enemy’ propaganda. What about the rest of us. What about the rest of us? What is our function? - to cry out and seek public sympathy for propaganda against Hinduism. PLEASE WAKE UP. The public goes by, uncaring, or in contempt or simply laughing.

I like and admire the counter-punch in Bhagwan Gidwani’s “Return of the Aryans”. Those of us who see only falsehood in a novel know nothing of history, literature or dramatic presentation

Hinduism is a great religion. But when Religious leaders in their websites take it out of the popular field, they do grave harm to it. What we have to have is popular appeal – TV, Films, Dramas and Novels. For instance, the TV on Ramayana and Mahabharta has done more for the popular understanding of Hinduism than all the Hindu websites put together. Similarly, the novel Return of the Aryans by Gidwani has done more to popularize Hinduism throughout the world.
Anyone who reads the Hindu websites , with all their ponderous language, will not know if the Aryan Invasion Theory is true or not. But anyone reading the Return of the Aryans will clearly know that the Theory is false and foolish and nothing but propaganda.
I note the suggestion made by Bhowmick Narayan that

the emient personalities like Koenraad Elst and David Frawley to write articles for Tattava so that the theory of Aryan Invasion of India is laid to rest as false and propagadistic

Bhagwat Shah is correct that our religious leaders, politiciansand educationists are unconcerned. But I do not blame the masses so much. They have simply been let down by their leaders - religious and political.

I also agree to some extent with Mirchand, in the comments as above, when he says that “our people sometimes become dogmatic, coming under the influence of foreign dogma, and they try to tell us that what is NOT written in a certain Religious book or books CANNOT be true and therefore they close their minds to all other evidence”. I recall one instance where a foremost Hindu Magazine refused to publish information about “Return of the Aryans” on the ground that the book is marked ‘fiction’ and the information there is not in Vedic literature. But as corrctly pointed out by others, the book is about an era much prior to Vedas and the author clearly has researched his material though to present it in story form with invented dialogues for a film or TV Sscript, he has been honest enough to mark the book as ‘Fiction’. People of dogma - Christian, Muslims, Jews, and others - happily quote from novel and other literature to glorify the cultural heritage of their own people, but our Hindu preachers act with dogma and put on a ‘holier than thou’ attitude to remain aloof from such great literature. I, for one, whenever anyone talks of Aryan Invasion Theory of India thrust on to them the thesis in “Return of the Aryans” that Aryans originated in India and civilized to an extent many regions and countries in their extensive travels abroad.

Be that as it may, I repeat that the comments of Bhagwat Shah should be considered by all and in particular by the TATTAVA editorial team and there should be focus on bringing matters of cultural awareness to all.

We continue to shout in the cyber space, but, in the schools and universities around the world - including India, none of this matters. They are still sticking to the old books. What are the plans to change them ?

Sadly, our religious leaders are not concerned with this research or spreading this info. Our politicians are definitely not interested as there are no votes in this (Hindus vote bank does not exist for them !!!!). Our educationalists are not interested as they don’t want to have to re-read and re-educate themselves, besides, they are brought up on old prejudices and are unwilling to change it. Saddest of all, our masses are not interested. They do not care about anything beyond the next bollywood release and cricket score. To them our ruined temples and ruined histories are of no consequence at all.

Until we start to educate the new generation and do so on a wide scale, this info will be limited to the elite and will not help us lift our country, culture or religion out of the mire its in at present. We have to do this in India and outside India. Don’t wait for the gov or religious bodies to do this, I propose we do this ourselves. We are happy to send our children to tennis and piano lessons, we should also send them to Indian culture lessons.

If need be, we have to start these lessons ourselves and use the research on-line to educate our children. Having tried different institutions, I eventually started my own classes in London to teach children of my own friends and family. We can’t wait for others. We have to do this for ourselves.

As far as Bhagwan Gidwani’s book Return of the Aryans is concerned, the author called it a novel because he said in his preface that he invented the dialogues in order to tell the story of the drama of the roots of our civilization otherwse, as I see it, the story is well-researched has the air of plausibility apart from being a very enjoyable book to read - which is successful in India and even more abroad and is being translated in French. But frankly, the jury is still out in my mind about the Aryans having originated in India only or was it a mass migration and movement from many parts of the world at about the same time?

Tattava can do much to have all these matters brought to light. They are most important matters as they relate to roots of our society, religion and civilization.

It is necessary also to refer to Bhagwan S. Gidwani’s book , Return of the Aryans which clearly demonstrates with thousands of clues and evidence that the Aryans of Sanatan Dharma (the root of Hinduism) emanated from India and traveled from India to foreign lands not only of West Asia and Europe in 5,000 but even to other countries to the East such as Mingolia, China, Indonesia etc. It is true that a large number of foreigners who joined the Aryans locally came with them when Aryans finally returned to India but is that an not ‘invasion’? No, they came with goodwill and friendship.

The book, Return of the Aryans, is written in the form of a story to dramatise the birth and beginnings of the roots of Hinduism at the dawn of civilization in 8,000 BCE, and the origin of the Aryans in India in 5,000 BCE and is described as a ‘novel’. YET it is based on solid research. I have come across even many Hindus even who have said that since the book is not based on Vedas or historical Hindu epics or literature, it cannot be taken seriously BUT they forget the fact that Vedas were written in or after 4,000 BCE and all Hindu epics and iterature came thereafter while Return of the Aryans deals with period of 8,000 BCE to 5,000 BCE, which may be described as a pre-Vedic age which itself must be regarded as a somewhat settled society to have given birth to the Vedic Age in which the Hindu & Aryan literature blossomed. Remember, thre was no witten language in the period of 8,000 BCE to 5,000 BCE and the book, Return of the Aryans, bases itself on oral traditions and memory songs that possibly survive and therefore the author of the book, with due honesty, himself gives it the lable of Fiction, choosing to write it in story form or a novel. Unfortunatly, there exists no book other than the Return of the Aryans which writes about the PreVedic times of India - neither by an Indian author nor by even a foreign author. Oral traditions are themselves regarded as a foundation of history everywhere but our people sometimes become dogmatic, coming under the influence of foreign dogma, and they try to tell us that what is NOT written in a certain Religious book or books CANNOT be true and therefore they close their minds to all other evidence.

In closing, i again refer to Nithin Sridhar’s observation that the facts of history must be made known to all and therefore I request Editor Tattava to kindly consider inviting and requesting the emient personalities like Koenraad Elst and David Frawley to write articles for Tattava so that the theory of Aryan Invasion of India is laid to rest as false and propagadistic .These are writers from whom many draw inspiration and their contribution will be truly worthwhile.

“See also the website which summarises under ‘Projects’ some of the Themes in “RETURN OF THE ARYANS”.

I am sorry I had not given the identification of the wsbsite which gives some of the Themes in “RETURN OF THE ARYANS”. Kindly note, the website is . Please click on the ‘Projects’ and a list of Themes from “RETURN OF THE ARYANS” will appear. You can then click the Theme that you wish to see.

Once again, my congratulations on the excellence of the Article, “The Whitewashing of History”, by Nithin Sridhar