What DNA Says About Aryan Invasion Theory -2

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There was never any evidence for the "theory".

It was, foremost, a theology to support the presence of a proto-Monotheism in India, since the absence of such would have collapsed Christianity.

The various narratives of the Indians were selectively filtered to support this proto-Monotheism.

And because Monotheism must necessarily have a singular origin as revelation, the (our) narratives were filtered as "history"; the relational clans were recast as normative Tribes (imagine calling Pandavas and Kauravas as tribes!!), and the learning potential of the narratives was denied as the narratives increasingly became a manifestation of ideology.

The Aryans needed to be ushered in to support the presence of ‘ideology’ (e.g., caste system) in Ancient India, which alone could “explain” all that was seen in India. And without ideology the Aryans could not be ushered in.

That is, the theory itself was an ideology, and was thus embraced eagerly by the colonials and by both their ordinary and communist sepoys. In broader terms, it became colonial invective in the guise of theory, as well stated by the Romanian Cioran.

A materialist basis was sought for the theory only as a secondary measure, as a vehicle for the motivated Aryan, the harbinger of Religion and Civilization.

However, as soon as the “religious” origin of the theory became clear, the theory collapsed in explanatory power. Knowledge of the colonial use of the theory was by itself not enough to collapse the theory’s explanatory power. Correspondingly, in the modern domain, Said’s critique against colonialism could be withstood but not that of Balagangadhara’s against religion

Yet the various materialist justifications remained on their own. This was taken as an improvement in the “theory”, as a shedding of unnecessary detail, and as an occam razor. This was the nihilist-socialist phase of the theory.

It would have been the coup of all time, the joker and thief being crowned king.

Yet Paramatma was on the side of the Hindus and denied the jokers even a semblance of credibility.

It is unfortunate that a materialist explanation was needed in the end, yet there is no other that can smash the last vestige hope of the remnant nihilist.