<!--QuoteBegin-Husky+Mar 21 2007, 10:32 AM-->QUOTE(Husky @ Mar 21 2007, 10:32 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Hindus have long been uncertain of or even argued against the AIT (e.g. even from the time of Vivekananda and Aurobindo)
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Husky, challenge to the AIT fancies had started even before Vivekananda or Aurobindo. Credit goes, several decades before them, to Madame HP Blavatsky and her Theosophical Soceity, who were probably the first to openly challenge these theories.
Also Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati in 1860s (before Vivekananda) challenged such 'explanations' to the origin of Sanskritam. Although at some point in time, he did seem to harbour the opinion that 'Aryans' were a people, who did inhabitate India as their first home of choice.
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Husky, challenge to the AIT fancies had started even before Vivekananda or Aurobindo. Credit goes, several decades before them, to Madame HP Blavatsky and her Theosophical Soceity, who were probably the first to openly challenge these theories.
Also Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati in 1860s (before Vivekananda) challenged such 'explanations' to the origin of Sanskritam. Although at some point in time, he did seem to harbour the opinion that 'Aryans' were a people, who did inhabitate India as their first home of choice.