Historical finding have
raised controversies and have got rectified, thanks to the continuous research.
The acceptance of the theory that the numerals 1 to 9 and 0 (zero) are Indian,
in origin is one example. The theory of the Aryan invasion of India,
though has become cliché to the readers of Indian history, is much in debate.
Yet the truth seems to be bypassed. The following excerpts taken from the
speech of Swami Vivekananda “The Future
of India” throws some light on this controversy.
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There is a theory that
there was a race of humans in Southern India called Dravidians,
entirely differing from another race in Northern India called the Aryan, and
that the Southern India Brahmins are the only Aryans that came from the North,
the other men of Southern India belong to an entirely different caste and race
to those of Southern Brahmins. Now I beg your pardon, Mr. Philologist, this is
entirely unfounded. The only proof of it is that there is a difference of
language between the North and the South. I do not see any other difference. We
are so many Northern men here, and I ask my European friends to pick out the
Northern and Southern men from this assembly. Where is the difference? A little
difference of language. But the Brahmins are a race that came here speaking the
Sanskrit language! Well then, they took up the Dravidian language and
forgot their Sanskrit. Why should not the other castes have done the same? Why
should not all the other castes have come one after the other from Northern
India, taken up the Dravidian language, and so forgotten their own? That is an
argument working both ways. Do not believe in such silly things. There may have
been a Dravidian people who vanished from here, and the few who remained lived
in forests and other places. It is quite possible that the languages may have
been taken up, but all these are Aryans who came from the North. The whole of
the India is Aryan, nothing else.
Then there is the idea
that the Shudra castes are surely the aborigines. What are they? There are
slaves. They say history repeats itself. The Americans, English, Dutch and the
Portuguese got hold of the poor Africans and made them work hard while they
lived, and their children of mixed birth were born in slavery and kept in that
condition for a long period. From that wonderful example, the mind jumps back
several thousand years and fancies that the same thing happened here, and our
archaeologist dreams of India being full of dark eyed aborigines, and the
bright Aryan came from the Lord knows where. According to some, they came from
Central Tibet, others will have it that they came from Central Asia. There are
patriotic Englishmen who think that the Aryans were all red-haired. Others,
according to their idea, think that they were all black-haired. If the writer
happens to be a black-haired man, the Aryans were all black-haired. Of late,
there was an attempt made to prove that the Aryan lived on the Swiss lakes. I
should not be sorry if they had been all drowned there, theory and all.
Some say now that they
lived at the North Pole. Lord bless the Aryans and their habitations! As for
the truth of these theories, there is not one world in our scriptures, not one,
to prove that the Aryan ever came from anywhere outside of India, and in
ancient India was included Afghanistan. There it ends. And the theory that the
Shudra castes were all non-Aryan and they were a multitude, is equally
illogical and equally irrational. It could not have been possible in those days
that a few Aryans settled and lived there with a hundred thousand slaves at
their command. These slaves would have eaten them up, made “Chutney” of them in
five minutes. The only explanation is to be found in the Mahabharata, which
says that in the beginning of the Satya Yuga there was one caste, the Brahmins,
and then by difference of occupations they went on dividing themselves into
different castes, and that is the only true and rational explanation that has
been given. And in the coming Satya Yuga all the other castes will have to go
back to the same condition.
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Strange New Year Traditions:
*In India and other places a giant old man made of hay, etc
and dressed in old shirt and pant is burnt at the stroke of midnight, signifying
the end of the old year and the beginning of the New Year.
*In Bolivia, Venezuela, men wear new underpants on New Year’s eve – red underpants for love and yellow for money.
*Spaniards eat 12 grapes at midnight; each grape symbolizing one month of year.
*The Filipinos wear polka dots and arrange round fruits on the dinner table. Polka and all things round signify coins, hence prosperity.
*In Scotland, the townsmen walk around with giant fireballs hoisted on long poles (resembling the sun) to purify the coming year.
* The Danes break glass dishes on the doors of neighbours and friends.
*Estonians eat seven times on the first day of the year to ensure abundant food throughout the year.
*Unmarried Irish girls place mistletoe leaves under the pillow to catch a good husband.
*In Bolivia, Venezuela, men wear new underpants on New Year’s eve – red underpants for love and yellow for money.
*Spaniards eat 12 grapes at midnight; each grape symbolizing one month of year.
*The Filipinos wear polka dots and arrange round fruits on the dinner table. Polka and all things round signify coins, hence prosperity.
*In Scotland, the townsmen walk around with giant fireballs hoisted on long poles (resembling the sun) to purify the coming year.
* The Danes break glass dishes on the doors of neighbours and friends.
*Estonians eat seven times on the first day of the year to ensure abundant food throughout the year.
*Unmarried Irish girls place mistletoe leaves under the pillow to catch a good husband.
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| Konkan region in the west coast of Maharastra during monsoon |
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