Motwani - None but india the cradle of aryans, sanskrit, vedas, & swastika: aryan invasion of india and

None but India (Bharat)

The Cradle of
Aryans, Sanskrit, Vedas, & Swastika

Aryan Invasion of India and IE Family of Languages

Re-examined and Rebutted

Jagat K. Motwani, Ph.D.

Areas of interest

Aryans Europeans

Sanskrit Dravidian languages

Rig Veda Hinduism

Linguistics Indo-European family of languages

Archeology Sindhu (Indus) Valley Civilization

Colonialism History

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About the Author and his other books

Jagat K. Motwani, Ph.D., Fulbright

M.A. (Eco), M.S.W., M.S. University of Baroda, India. Ph.D. Fordham University, New York, and Fulbright Scholar.

Associate Professor at graduate schools of social work in India (1958-70).

Asst. Director of Social Service, New York (1970-1988).

Psychotherapist & family therapist (Pvt. practice, on PT basis) (1971-1995)

Organized and Moderated several conferences on family and youth issues all over America and India (1981- 2009).

Visiting scholar on Indian Diaspora and family issues to Delhi, Gujarat, and Patan universities.

Writer

Areas of interest: Linguistics, Language, History, Indus Valley civilization, and Indian Diaspora.

Other books by the author

1. Sindhu (Indus) Valley Civilization: Heritage of the Culture, Sindhyat, & Entrepreneurship of Sindhis (2009).

2. America and India: In a Give & Take Relationship (2003).

3. Global Indian Diaspora: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (!993).

4. Global Migration of Indians: Saga of Adventure, Enterprise, Identity & Integration (!989).

Chief author of a column on family and youth issues for two Indian Weekly News Papers in America, !978- 1988.

Dedicated

to

All the Scholars

who have been silent subjects of this research

without whom

the book would have not seen the sunshine

Acknowledgements

The book on various multifarious interrelated aspects issues of human life, such as originality, identity, family, heritage, language, culture, religion, sacred scriptures can not and should not be written without help of several persons of various disciplines history, archeology, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, etc. I am fortunate that I have received willing cooperation from several persons, particularly my family, and related literature without which the book would not have seen the light of the sun. My heart-felt gratitude to:

My younger daughter Neha for her much-needed help in word processing, paginating, making chapter-wise headers, and preparing Index, without which the book would not have been in such a professional format.

My son-in-law Mr. Emad Asghar for his help in taking a few computerized pictures and maps. The pictures have a language, more effectively expressive to adequately describe what I want to convey.

My elder daughter Shilpa has been of great help in the grammar and punctuation. Mine is basically Indo-British English, though New York Ph. D.

Prof. Emanuel Boussios provided Greek words for several English words required in a table (Chapter Four).

Friend Ms. Rani Mothey for her very useful input by way of her correcting and feeding more required information in regard to some Vedic religious and cultural events..

My brother Lal and friend Mr. Srichand Sidhwani spent several hours making required maps and images which could not be used because of some copyright formalities.

Loving appreciation for my 3-and-2-month-always-smiling prince, grandson Remi for his playful company in my study room whenever I needed to give recess to my computer-fatigued eyes.

Last, but not the least, the subjects of my research the authors of the books, journals and encyclopedias without whose participation, though indirect and silent, this book would not have been a useful product. Their names are given in the Appendix-A. I. Very sorry, I might have missed some.

Jagat K. Motwani, Ph.D.

Preface

The title of the Will Durants book (1935): The Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage raised my curiosity to know what Europeans are thinking about India and her civilization. Durant (p.391) inspired me to know my India (Bharat) better:

Nothing should more deeply shame the modern student than the recency and inadequacy of his acquaintance with India. an impressive continuity of development and civilization from Mohenjo-daro, 2900 B.C. or earlier, to Gandhi, Raman and Tagore; this is the India that patient scholarship is now opening up, like a new intellectual continent, to that Western mind which only yesterday thought civilization an exclusively European thing.

Durant, in Foot Note, writes that from the time of Megasthenes, who described India to Greece ca. 302 B.C., down to the eighteenth century, India was all a marvel and a mystery to Europe. So was India mystery to me too. The more I read, the more ignorant and confused I feel about India about her name, her natives (whether Aryans or Dravidians), native language (Sanskrit or Dravidian), and about the originality and the antiquity of the Vedas and Vedic religion. I felt confused about my own identity. I didnt know if I was the original Aryan or a descendant of an invading Aryan.

I rightly thought Ph.D. would help. I started reading related books. I found answers to my questions related to my identity and heritage. Being a serious student of language and history, I did not think that a civilized historian, particularly a British, would abuse his only child HISTORY. I used to blindly worship HISTORY as Sarasvati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge.

Historian Herbert Muller has said: on national scale, history becomes the kind of prejudice and conceit that led Valery to call history the most dangerous product ever concocted by the chemistry of brain. Herbert Butterfield has said: Wrong history is being taught in all countries, all the time, unavoidably; while we have great need of history, our first need is to unlearn most of we have been taught.

Historians, Herbert Muller, Valery and Butterfield opened my eyes that one should carefully examine what several historians have written to find out if their texts about the same issue have unity of facts. To my shock, I found out contradictions between scholars and even within one and the same authorship. So, I have to objectively sift the evidences wrong from the right to get correct perspectives on the issues and events under my study, such as the origins and antiquities of the Aryans, Sanskrit, the Vedas and the Swastika.

It appears that historians and linguists have created the two inter-twined theories AII and IE to support the British, rather European, colonial and missionary agenda, guided by their policy Divide and Rule to further the spread of European colonial empires.