{"id":16234,"date":"2018-12-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2018\/12\/09\/aryan-invasion-migration-of-india-and-german-anti-semitism\/"},"modified":"2018-12-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T12:00:00","slug":"aryan-invasion-migration-of-india-and-german-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2018\/12\/09\/aryan-invasion-migration-of-india-and-german-anti-semitism\/","title":{"rendered":"Aryan Invasion-Migration of India and German Anti-Semitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcfusa.org\/aryan-invasion-migration-of-india-and-german-anti-semitism\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED STATES, October 4, 2018 (DCF USA by Vishwa Alduri): A debate has been raging between proponents of the view that the Aryans migrated into India, and those who hold the opposite view. In this blog, I do not attempt to resolve that debate; indeed, I make no claims about the historical reality of an ethnic group, whether called &#8220;Aryan,&#8221; &#8220;Indian&#8221; or &#8220;Indo-German.&#8221; Rather, I seek to bring historical perspective to this debate by illustrating the political and rhetorical uses to which the search for origins has been put, especially the origins of a semi-divine &#8220;culture people&#8221; (Kulturvolk) held to be responsible for bringing civilization and progress to the rest of humanity.<\/p>\n<p>German Indologists&#8217; historical accounts about ancient India were neither objective nor secular. The Indologists lacked historical training. What they peddled as &#8220;history&#8221; was, in fact, racial prejudices disguised in teleological terms (for example, that it was natural for the &#8220;stronger&#8221; race to defeat the &#8220;weaker&#8221;). We must learn to recognize that the &#8220;history&#8221; we have been told is fundamentally a racial history. Even indigenous accounts of history (see, for example, the work of D. D. Kosambi) attest to this racial bias. In many ways, the &#8220;official&#8221; history of India has functioned as an apology for colonization and a legitimation for cultural and ethnic genocides.<\/p>\n<p>Much more of this article at &#8220;source&#8221; above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source UNITED STATES, October 4, 2018 (DCF USA by Vishwa Alduri): A debate has been raging between proponents of the,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}