Not a Left historian, Baghel’s father echoes Aryan invasion theory launched by Brahmin elites

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wooBrahmins came from here? Who propagated the theory that they were foreigners? Bhupesh Baghel may be the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh Arrested His own father asked the 86-year-old Brahmins to go back to the Volga, which angered the community, but Nanda Kumar Baghel was merely repeating what the Brahmin elite had said about the Aryan invasion theory – the Marxist historians in power long before he arrived.

Nand Kumar Baghel is not a historian. But his views on Brahmins are similar to those of stalwarts like Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Keshub Chandra Sen, Ram Mohan Roy and Jawaharlal Nehru. Baghel spent three days in jail To express your views.

Senior Baghel had come to Lucknow in support of the ongoing agitation on the issue of implementation of reservation in teacher posts. He Allegedly He said that Brahmins are occupying all positions, and they should reform in their own way. he forward said That the Brahmins came from the Volga to the Ganges, and if they do not change their course, they should be sent to the Volga again. this is his rough translation pronunciations. What he said he might like to read in Hindi too Here.

This caused an uproar on social media and some Brahmin organizations lodged a complaint against Nand Kumar Baghel in Raipur, the capital of Chhattisgarh. CM Bhupesh Baghel, his son, tweeted that his father’s remarks were objectionable and the law will take its own course.

Being spoiled as a type would be spoiled.

No member reappears in legal government.

— Bhupesh Baghel (@bhupeshbaghel) September 5, 2021

Interestingly, despite the said “crime” happening in Lucknow, the Uttar Pradesh Police has not taken any action on it.

There may be some political angle to this incident, but my concern is confined to Nand Kumar Baghel’s speech and that too on Brahmins, Volga and Ganga.

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Tilak’s arctic theory

for the uneducated, from the Volga to the Ganges A popular book originally written in Hindi by renowned Indologist and Polyglot Rahul Sankrityayan. Born as Kedar Pandey in 1893, he wrote 135 books and taught in several universities. they were honored Padma Bhushan And the Government of India issued a postage stamp to commemorate his birth centenary in 1993. In this book Sankrityayana described the history of India from 6000 BC, in which he wrote about the migration of Aryans to India.

Although Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT) and Aryan Migration Theory (AMT) are now Challenge: by many scholars, and indigenous Aryan doctrine (IAT) being promoted during British rule and even after independence, it was the dominant idea in Indian historiography. leftist historians like Romila Thapri now to blame island and AMT. But long before leftist historians began to dominate history textbook writing in independent India, these principles were established and established. Marxists had no role in this.

The most notable and prominent proponent of the Aryan migration theory was none other than Bal Gangadhar Tilak, who published a complete book Called Arctic Home in the Vedas (1903). on the basis of linguistic evidence in Vedas, Tilak wrote that the early Aryans were the inhabitants of the Arctic and they migrated to different parts of the world. A party reached what we now call India.

This long excerpt from Tilak’s book should be read carefully so that he can come to the conclusion that the early Aryans lived in the Arctic – “We have seen that the half-year-long day and night, the long morning with its revolving splendor, the long continuous night correspond to this long day and are associated with a succession of normal days and nights of varying lengths and total annual duration. Is. Less than twelve months of sunshine are the major distinguishing features of the polar or circum-polar calendar; And while passages expressed in the Vedas are found, the oldest record of early Aryan thoughts and feelings, it shows that each of these characteristics was known to the Vedic bards, who themselves lived in an area where the year was made up of three one. One hundred sixty-five or three hundred sixty five days, one relentlessly drawn to the conclusion that the poets of the Rigveda must have known these facts from tradition and that their ancestors must have lived in areas where such events were possible.“

We do not know Tilak’s motive behind writing this lengthy thesis, which he called a theory, and that too in English and with many references to Western scholars. It was clear that he was writing this book for an English speaking audience.

This idea was used by the “Aryans” – Brahmins – to establish brotherhood with the colonial rulers. In his speech at Calcutta in 1877, Keshub Chandra Sen, the leader of the Brahmo Samaj, said: “The British government that came to your rescue, as the ambassador of God, when your country was steeped in ignorance and superstition… the Aryan race(Keshub Chander Sen’s Lectures in India 1901: Quoted by Subrata Chattopadhyay Banerjee in his book Development of Aryan Invasion Theory in India)

This explains why the idea of ​​Aryan migration/invasion became so popular among the Indian elite of the time. They were looking for some balm or comfort for their wounded pride of being subjugated by the whites and earlier by the Turks/Afghan/Mughals etc.

The Aryan Migration/Invasion Theory liberated his wounded ego, and he stuck to it. By whom did Tilak expand the scope of theory? claiming that that the Vedic culture was much older (and therefore superior) than the British culture.

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A debate from Phule to Nehru to Baghel

Jawaharlal Nehru also supported the Aryan migration theory. in his book, Discovery of India, He wrote: “The Aryans are believed to have migrated about a thousand years after the Indus Valley period; And yet it is possible that there may not be a significant difference and tribes and peoples came to India from the north-west from time to time, as happened in later ages, and were absorbed into India.“

In one of his letters to his daughter Indira Gandhi, Nehru also wrote in detail about the migration of the Aryans.

So, it is clear that it was mostly the Indian power elite who supported the AIT/AMT. However after independence, this theory became useless and inconvenient for them, and now we see a multitude of historians, again mostly from the ‘upper’ castes, arguing against their predecessors. they now Say The Aryans were native to India, not migrant, and actually migrated outwards to Europe and the Middle East.

Winston Churchill used the AIT/AMT to advance the interests of the British Empire. Churchill during the debate on the Government of India Bill, 1935 said He: “We are no more foreigners in India than Muslims or Hindus [this term at that time was exclusively used for caste Hindus] Self. We have as much a right to live in India as anyone there, except perhaps, the Depressed Classes, who are the basic stockHe was commenting on the freedom movement which was led almost entirely by ‘upper’ caste leaders.

The idea of ​​AIT caused discord among the lower castes and the theory was later widely used in anti-caste movements, especially in Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. Nineteenth-century anti-caste activist and reformer Jyotiba Phule argued that Brahmins were not residents of this land; They were subjugating the Shudras and the Atishudras. He said that Brahmin-Baniya supremacy was the root cause of all the miseries of the Shudras. This became the central argument in his book Ghulamgiri (Slavery), first published in 1873.

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According to PhuleDasas and Shudras were indigenous people in the Brahmanical texts. To him, they were the rightful heirs of the land, whose rights had been unfairly appropriated by the invading Aryans, and who had subjugated them and granted them low caste status.

Nand Kumar Baghel 19. are using the same AIT/AMT principle in the tradition of anti-caste movements of^th and 20^th centuries. He is using the language once used by Mahatma Phule and Thanthai Periyar. Interestingly, Dr. BR Ambedkar in his thesis rejected the theories of Aryan migration and Aryan supremacy. Who were the Shudras? (1946). I hope that when this matter comes up for hearing in the courts, all the evidence and arguments related to AIT and AMT will also be examined.

The author is a former managing editor of India Today Hindi magazine, and has authored books on media and sociology. Thoughts are personal.

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