Metamorphosis
of Aryavarth
History has always been written by the conquerors in
the world. It is a subject used by the rulers, colonials and the conquerors to
set up a narrative which works itself to fit in the ideology of Grand Narrative.
Grand Narrative is a tool
used by all the successful leaders, nations, kingdoms, and companies in general
for a strong identity. Identity plays an important role in a nation building
and civilizational essence. Until and unless civilizational essence is added to
the nation building, the nation remains as good as identity-less built on
borrowed up identity pillars of the colonial countries. Colonialism is of two
types again; one is the direct colonialism and second is the Intellectual Colonialism.
History has always been biased, a tool for triggering
an agenda by the colonials and conquerors. Similarly, the history which we
globally accept in the world today is a product of European
Supremacy- Grand narrative. Civilizations which existed before the
Greeks (which is the oldest recorded civilization in the history of Europe) no
matter how magnificent and advanced it might have been, their significance were
nullified in our textbooks to a great extent. Dates have been ever since slyly shifted backwards with constant revision.
A lot of the major chunks of the advancements of
earlier civilizations of Mayans, Nordic, Celtic, Egyptian, Hindu and Persian
have been ignored to the maximum and replaced by the invader’s written history.
We are never taught about the indigenous race of New Zealand, Australia,
American continent in our history lessons. The widely accepted American history
starts from the colonial’s invasion in American continent.
India is a great example for omitting out its own
history and replacing it by the invader’s version of history and their
lifestyle, which has no connection to the cultural identity of the land,
ethnicity and lifestyle of a common man. Persian culture, lifestyle and
language was imposed on the Bharatvarshis by the ruling dynasty which
proclaimed itself to be Royal for generations, yet failed to serve its own
countrymen and work in the interests of a common man. Irony of our cultural
literacy is that the younger generations hardly know anything about the Khalsa
Empire and Maratha Empire history whereas our textbooks are full of the details
about what Akbar and Jahangir liked to eat, see, listen and do in their free
time. There is no issue in learning
about the invaders lifestyle or borrowed up traditions and lifestyle and
cultural essence from the distant lands. But the problem remains in discarding
our own knowledge and understanding of our identity and living on the imposed
and outlandish idea of life.
Decaying of Sanskrit has affected the Sanskriti of
Bharat, which we should be concerned about. But the main objective of this post
is not to talk about the lost history of Bharat but to throw light on how the
entire macrocosm has worked itself to shape the civilizations which has
resulted in human expansion, in terms of consciousness. And that human
consciousness has again resulted in how we perceive the universe. Universe is
that material which molds itself into what we really want to believe, because
in practical field that is variable for each living being.
Going back to the history which was labelled as
mythology by the westerners does not stand all alone which has been neglected
for a long time. There are many more “mythologies” which has been neglected due
to Sophisticated Barbarianism and tried hard to be
drained off. Mayans, Celtic, Nordic, Egyptian, Slavic, Mesopotamians-
philosophy, astronomy, science seems to meet at many different junctions which
can make us wonder if all of it has same ground.
These junctions where all of this theory seems to meet
together might require another post of this blog to explain in detail. But one
can always refer to how Mayan Civilization was heavily influenced by the Vedic
society (the epitome of Vedic culture-between Indus land to Sindhu Sagar) which
might land us to a scientific reasoning for why the humans (our ancestors) of
that time, their thought process and derivations to their works on astronomy
particularly seemed to have intersected with different theories from distant
lands at some point of expansion.
Why is it important for us to refer history?
To connect dots; as Steve Jobs often believed in.
To not only refer and learn from the past deeds and
mistakes but also to notice the graph of civilization radiance.
So, from this point onwards let’s dive inside the
history of Aryavarth!
This history is not well understood by the western
historians and deliberately forgotten only to be labelled as “myth”.
I do not claim that Ancient Bharat is the only
civilization to have a history predating the rest. As mentioned above, the
monotheistic idea played a crucial role in wiping out an advance history of
Egypt, Greeks, Romans only to be labelled as Mythology.
But what can’t be denied is that the most ancient
advanced civilization had been the Aryavarth. What is Aryavarth?
Artwork
by- Arsalan Khan
Aryavarth is the land of Aryans. Aryan should not be
confused with a race which invaded Bharat because that is a part of racial
theory introduced by the intellectual colonials to imbibe a feeling of racial
supremacy and create a crack.
“Arya” is a Sanskrit word for noble man and Aryavarth
is the land of Arya or Aryans (anglicized).
It was very common for a queen or a wife to call her
husband “Arya”.
Aryavarth is nothing more than a name for the piece of
land which was the home to the world’s greatest civilization of that time. There was a certain pride to be a part of
Aryavarth at that timeline of the history when rest of the world was in a
primitive stage of life. Aryavarth was the region which ran from the east of
Afghanistan to the east of Indian subcontinent. This included parts of
Afghanistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (Pakistan), Punjab (including
Pakistan’s province, Indian state of Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana), Sindh,
Rajasthan, Gujarat, Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Deccan plateau,
Bihar, Bengal (Bangladesh and West Bengal), Assam, Manipur, Nagaland rest parts
of North-East India.
This region collectively called as Aryavarth was the
epitome of Vedic Civilization which in total housed 16 major Kingdoms of the
civilized world, also coined as 16 Mahajanapadas.
Some of the well noted kingdoms were Kuru-Rashtra,
Panchal, Gandhar, Vidarbha and Magadha. Though this was the land often referred
as Aryavarth, the land was divided between two royal lineages- Chandravarshis
and Suryavanshis.
Also, it is unfair to say that this was the only
region with Hindu Kingdoms.
One must understand the difference between Hindu
civilization and Vedic civilization. A Vedic civilization was the province or
state which was governed using the oldest written text on world- Vedas. Though
the Vedas were written after the Aryavarth dissolved and disintegrated, but the
knowledge of Vedas was orally transmitted and memorized. Absurd it may sound
but it was very common and an easy task for the maharishis and sages to gain
the knowledge of entire Vedas through the intuitive thinking and connecting
threads of cosmos which exists multidimensionally.
Whereas a Hindu kingdom was based on the Hindu culture
and practices and need not be a state governed using Vedas. Hindu Civilization
extended the borders of North-east India, as it went on to flourish till the
region of Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, Java and Burma. It had a strong
influence in the Baluchistan region, Pre-Islamic and Pre-Zoroastrian Iran,
Bactria, Parts of Uzbekistan connected to Wakhan Corridor. There is also a well
erased history by the communist lobby in India which is about the Hindu
artisans, engineers, architects and traders who travelled to Syria, Jordan and
other parts of middle east for establishing a civilized settlement.
It should be well noted that these regions were not a
Hindu colony as Hindus never colonized ever! It was a settlement in which the
indigenous population was well mixed with the Hindu settlers. All of these
events predate the Islamic, Christian, Anglican, Greek, Egyptian and
Mesopotamian history. Dates have still not been revised by the western historians
and writers and the Indian historians. Those who are willing to correct this
are under a direct intellectual attack by the Communist and Urban Naxals.
“Hindu” word was coined by the Persians for those who
lived between the stretches from the Sindh river to Sindhu Sagar (ocean).
Persians found it tough to pronounce “Sa” and Sindh, hence
their pronunciation gave birth the word HINDU.
Hindu being a geographical identity and Hindustan, the
name of subcontinent. Quite similar to Europeans living in Europe.
The next part of “SYNONYM OF TIME” will focus on the
political crisis and natural calamity which led to the Fall of Aryavarth and a temporary
Nadir.
Very insightful (interesting) read.. Appreciate the author's detailed study and presentation of this blog.
ReplyDeleteIts lmportant to do a factual study of our history and its contributions, which this blog does wonderfully.
Thank you sir, for your feedback.
DeleteIf you have carefully read Romil Thapar and Ram Guha, even they would have agreed to some of your view points.
ReplyDeleteDividing history into Hindu, Muslim and British doesn't make sense. But the govt including today doesn't listen to put in effort to revise it.
Second, where is your research? When did we really study Greeks and not others? I have read NCERT books. Not sure what history have you read. But the focus in my books were on India. Even limited on China.
Third, I am pained to see the map you chose. Kaikayi in Burma? This casts so many doubts on your reasearch and material used.
In the end, it is largely your perception devoid of serious research.
And for Aryan Invasion. Please read the latest DNA studies and try to poke hole in that before claiming your perceptions to be facts.
You'll find all the answers to your questions in the next article (because it's a 3 part series). Read "Fall of Aryavarth" Which has given the exact map with details and sources. Plus, this map is just an artist illustration who happens to be from London. Nowhere it's claimed that these are the 16 Mahajanapads. Rakhagarhi DNA study too is mentioned in next article. Kindly read the next article for clarifications. Meanwhile, this was just for base.
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