Since the nineteenth century, India's ancient history from Vedic times and the true content of the Veda have both been distorted by a blinkered and unsympathetic scholarship. British rulers, European scholars and missionaries combined in a campaign to disparage the roots of Indian civilization, and used the wholly groundless Aryan Invasion theory to sow seeds of division in the Indian society - "divide and rule," but also "divide and convert." The same fallacies continue to be promoted today.
The first part in this book examines the birth of the Aryan myth, and the misuses it has bred; it then gives a fresh look at the invasion theory in the light of recent scientific evidence, and shows how it now stands overwhelmingly disproved. The second part offers the essence of the Veda's true message in the light of Sri Aurobindo's rediscovery of the Rishis' experience recorded in their pregnant hymns.
The result is a new perspective, in which India's bygone civilization and its fountainhead come alive, rejuvenated. We can now understand why, in Sri Aurobindo's words, "the recovery of the perfect truth of the Veda is a practical necessity for the future of the human race."
Mira Aditi, Mysore, India
128 pages, ISBN 81-85137-22-6
I. The Birth of a Myth
II. Indian Protests
III. The Evidence
IV. The Core of Civilization
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