Aryan Invasion Theory or its opposition is not the main topic of this forum

Submitted by Prashant (United States), Jun 25, 2011 at 03:23

Dear Readers:

Dr Pipes made a passing reference to Aryan Invasion Theory in his article on Israel. By no stretch of imagination this forum is about this theory being correct or incorrect. So let us not discuss this issue on this forum. What exact form did Aryan people's entry into India took is quite irrelevant to this forum and current context. No one in their right minds will state that some Aryan religious leader will a fully developed Vedic religion/culture and his royal followers launched an assault on equally matured Dravidian culture and destroyed it about 4000 years ago. Even if Aryans migrated to India and even if the encounter was violent, it was probably not equivalent in scale to other massacres and genocides that our civilization has seen.

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