All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi has once again raised a new controversy by mentioning the Aryan Theory. Well, everyone is aware of his verbal tricks. But this time, he has openly raised the issue of Rashtriya Swayamsevaks and Prime Minister Narendra Modi as foreigners and not natives of India being Aryan. The biggest issue today is why Asaduddin Owaisi is still giving air to the Aryan Theory, which has been rejected even by anthropologists long back.
In fact, in response to a question in senior journalist Rajat Sharma’s show, Asaduddin Owaisi said, “I want my DNA test to be done, and also of Narendra Modi’s” and the RSS people, you will come to know who is Aryan and who belongs to this country…” As soon as he said this, it became clear that among his people and all those who came in contact with him, he would like the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) members to prove themselves as Aryans.
He is vehemently trying to address the people of India by labelling them that they are not the original inhabitants of India but have come from outside and have taken over and settled here. It is surprising to know that despite being a member of Parliament continuously and studying law, he does not know that the ‘Aryan Theory’ has been proven to be completely false. It is well known to all that it was a mischief of some Britishers, which was also fanned by leftist academicians of India while writing a history of this nation.
The historical fact is that to make the Indians fight among themselves instead of fighting for the country’s independence, these three people, Max Muller, William Hunter and Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay, started distorting the history of India. These three started by saying that Indian history began with the Indus Valley Civilisation, in which the people of the Indus Valley were Dravidians. The Aryans came from outside and established their kingdom by destroying the Indus Valley civilisation. The British declared the period between 1500 BC to 500 AD as the period of the Aryans.
It is surprising that the British were never able to present any basic facts or research on the historical claims based on which they created the “Aryan Invasion Theory.” Some of them said that the Aryans were Central Asian residents, while others said they were natives of Siberia, Mongolia, Trans-Caucasia, or Scandinavia. Where did the Aryans come from? No one has ever given an accurate answer to that.
Yes, it is certainly a matter of pride for us Indians that the organised Indus Valley civilisation that is talked about today has been proven to be the oldest in the world. Scientists from IIT Kharagpur and the Indian Archaeological Department have put detailed facts about the antiquity of the Indus Valley Civilisation. Their research concludes that according to the British, this urban civilisation is not from 2600 BC, or according to some historians, it is not five thousand five hundred years old, but it is a civilisation of eight thousand years old.
This Indus Valley civilisation is even older than the Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilsations. Where there was town planning, big kitchens for food, meeting places, and clothes, silver and copper were used. People also knew the game of chess, and they used iron. The seals obtained from here are the best artefacts, meaning that people in this civilisation were also art connoisseurs.
New research also says that the Aryan invasion did not occur in any period of Indian history, nor did two separate human races named Aryan and Dravidian ever exist on Earth. The research based on DNA sequencing of Indians done at Tartu University, Finland, under the direction of Professor Dr Kivisild of Cambridge University, proves that all Indians are descendants of the same ancestors based on chromosomes. There is no difference between Aryan and Dravidian based on chromosomes, and what is more, the genetic code found in India is not found in any other country of the world.
The research involved testing about 13,000 samples of almost all the castes, sub-castes, and tribes present in the populations of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. The result is that in the Indian subcontinent, no matter what religion they follow, 99 per cent have the same ancestors. Research has found that the DNA of all the castes of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh and the DNA of North Indian castes are the same.
After studying the genes of India’s ancient population, experts from Harvard in America and analysts from India found that all Indians share a genetic relationship. This proves that the Aryan and Dravidian dispute in India is futile and baseless. North and South Indians are descendants of the same ancestors.
Two centuries have been spent explaining the lie that there was never a word like Arya for the foreigners who came and settled in India from outside. In linguistics, Arya means good, venerable, valid, prestigious, loyal to religion and rules or superior. In ancient India, all the noble personnel were addressed as “ARYA ” to respect them.
Today, it has been completely proven that the “Aryan Invasion Theory” is false. Still, the kind of language Mr Asaduddin Owaisi is speaking today clearly shows that he is a rumour monger and can go to any extent to prove his point. The efforts he is making to mislead the general public of the country by repeatedly calling Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and its associated people outsiders in the name of Aryan Theory is not in the interest of the country. Such an act is an attempt to create racial hysteria in India, which cannot be accepted at any cost.
