The Building of The Indian Nation

   Part  I of my Book 

The foundation stone of the Indian nation was laid down from times unknown, way back in past millennium. The beginning of the nationalist movement in Bharat i.e. India would be incomplete if we do not evaluate and study the Indian people, their classes, race, varied culture and religion. Indian civilisation is one of the oldest in the world. An evaluation and analytical study of Hindu mythology and writings reveals and produces it as the oldest. Hence it becomes essential and desirable to bring forward a comparative study, of the facts and findings which has resulted in the writing of the history by the historians, vis-à-vis our Holy scripts, granths and other factors essential and desirable for proper understanding of the current history. There are several contradictory facts and discrepancy, due to the illogical conclusion drawn in printing the History which is described hereunder, and which has lead me to believe of the factual untrustworthy character of our ancient history. This History is written and composed by European historians, who themselves do not claim to possess an ancient civilisation and history like ours. I am producing both these views for logical evaluation and appraisal of the subject. The analysis includes the study of the golden era of Indian economy, and the reasons and methods instrumental in building the Indian economy to be called as “Sonay Ki Chiriyaa”.

The origin of the people and its races in India are not clear, as of the origin of Man (Homo Sapiens). Our ancestors inherited a multiple and confusing race of culture and language of people.  Civic society or organised socio-political civilisation first took shape

within a narrow geographical compass that covered Egypt in the West, Indus valley in the East, Anatolia (Asia Minor) in the north, and Sumeria (Iraq & Iran) in the West.

  

Civilisation radiated outwards from these centres, reaching the Mediterranean Sea board and the islands in the West. The first cities were very small affairs centred around the temples. Very soon some temples became more prominent and the high priests of these temples became the first city chiefs. Very soon some temples became more prominent and the high priests of these temples become the first states. Among the earliest of these states found and excavated were those of Indus valley, Sumeria and Egypt. The Indus valley Civilisation is the last of the great civilisations to be discovered. Though a late–corner to the history books, the Indus civilisation is the oldest of the great civilisation known. Recent research in Mehrgarh and other sites in the Indus valley, through carbon-14 samples analysis has shown that the structure were of a period ranging from 6000 B.C to 7000 BC.  Earlier structure must therefore belong to a period beyond prior to these dates.

The racial origin of the Egyptian is also a matter of dispute. Some regard them as a conquering Asian race acquainted with metallurgy and armed with superior weapons, who easily triumphed over the tribes inhabiting in the Nile Valley in Neolithic times.  Sumeria was in the lower valley of the Euphrates and Tigris, in the southern half of Mesopotamia. We do not know who the Sumerians were, and are compared by some to Turanians of today and others to the Dravidian’s of India.

The influence of Hindu culture and civilisation in their way of life was found in all these ancient civilisations, which includes the building of temples and priests. The trace of Hindu influence and its gods are mentioned in history. There are further traces of mention of Hindu Gods and dietaries, in the treaties of that period. It is also evident that there was interaction between these civilisations from times unknown. The river Indus, is called by Aryans as Sindhu, has lent its name to India. Its valleys on both sides have been the seat of a civilisation that was not only older but also superior in many respects to the fabled civilisation of Sumeria and Egypt. This historic river has five major tributaries- rises from Mount Kailash in Tibet (known as the Holy mountain of lord Shiva as per Hindu Mythology), and traverses many miles through the Himalayas, thereby crossing Kashmir and Punjab (land of five rivers) and Sindh before falling into the Arabian Sea.

Archaeological excavation and research has shown that, a species known as Ramapithecus was found in the Siwalik foothill of the North- western Himalayas. This species believed to be the first in the line of hominids (human life) lived some 14 million years ago. Recent research has shown that a species resembling the Australopithecus lived in India some 2 million years ago. Little research is done in this matter and leaves an evolution Gap of 12 million years since Ramapithecus. Geographically the Indian sub-continent was a separate Island from the main land Asia, some 50 million years ago.  The continent drifted and joined into the main Asia continent later on and as per these writing it appears that our civilisation was much older than claimed and perhaps the oldest and the most advanced in the world.

The Himalayan range being artificial mountain, essentially not made from volcanic eruptions of Volcano’s, but made from the crust of the drifting of the Indian/Jumbo Deep peninsula to the main land Asia more than 50 million years ago. If we study our rich Sanskrit Granths, slogans, scripts and followings, we find the Indian continent was called Jumbo deep (meaning thereby big island), Bharat Knanday (Indian part), by the writers, sages and Brahmins. In the traditional and legendary cosmography of the Hindus, it is part of Bharat- Varsa to the south of Meru (Golden Mountain).

History states that in 6000 B.C there were two great civilisations, the Neolithic settlements of Mehrgarh, Baluchistan and the Indus valley. That is the period that the first civilisation and city life was discovered, which included domestication of cattle, water buffalo, sheep and goats. Century 5000 BC is said to be the period in which Indus valley civilisation developed farming of wheat, cotton and barley, fruit trees pottery, beads and jujube and also date was discovered. 4000 BC is marked in the history as the invention of pottery wheels and bow drill in the Indus valley, klinfired pottery, red painted wares, beads of local stones and copper melting.

History and the gazetteer of India states that some time in the 2^nd millennium BC a new race generally called Aryans or Indo-Aryans entered India. Before that period the Indus valley civilisation developed and flourished in an Area now known as Pakistan, Afghanistan and Baluchistan. In the 2^nd millennium B.C, they started moving from their original homeland and migrated westwards, southwards and eastwards. The branch, which went to Europe, were the ancestors of Greeks, Romans, Celts and Teutons. Another branch went to Anatolia. The great empire of the Hittites grew up from the mixture of these people with the original inhabitants. Those who moved southwards came into conflict with the west Asian civilisation.

The Kassites, who conquered Babylon, belong to this stock. In the excavation at Boghaz-Koi in Asia Minor, which date about 1400 BC inscriptions are found containing the names of Deities like Indra, Varuna and Nasatya. These gods are also mentioned in Rig- Veda. To the same period as Boghaz-Koi, belong the clay tablets with cuneiform script discovered at Tell el –Amara in Egypt where references are found of prices of Mitanni in Northwest Mesopotamia, bearing Indo-Aryan names. There is no evidence or inscription anywhere in the history, which proves the movement of Aryans from Central Asia to India which, was named as Bharat or Hindustan by our ancestors.

Sumeria one of the oldest civilisations has close similarities in the field of religion and mythology of India.  Indian philosophy and religion made a deep impression on the Iranians. Indian culture influenced Iran and their relations with Indians, which as per Historian are, traced back to third millennium BC. The medieval period saw Capliphs encourage the translation into Persian of Indian treaties on medicine and astronomy. Arabs borrowed the Hindu system of numerals (i.e. the number system) from India and they spread it all over the world. The Puranas (the Indian History of old narratives) mentions about Samba (a son of Krishna) who is stated to have brought the Maga (Indian form of Magi, the sun- worshipping priest of Iran) into India. These East Iranian (Sakadvip) were brought in India into early centuries of Christian era, and were/ are known as Sakaldvipi Brahmin’s in India. Various other literary and archaeological data bears evidence in this regard. These Brahmin’s have been integrated in the Indian Society and settled as far as Bihar and one of them happens to be my priest. The Chatta Puja of Bihar is probably one of the Indicators of a strong cult of Sun- Worshipers in Bihar, brought by these Brahmins.  The Indus valley civilisation(also Known as Harrapa and Mohanjodaro Civilisation) is continued and extended with proto-Hararappan Civilisation and culture in Sindh, Punjab and Rajasthan. Among those excavated and studies by archaeologist the KaliBhanga and Armi Culture assumes significant importance. Kali Bhanga in Rajasthan is situated on Ancient Saraswati, now called Ghaggar. Potteries made of six fabrics, all wheel made were found by excavators and these fabrics and form show a close affinity with the Iranian and Baluchistan pottery. Among the excavated samples, Carbon –14 sample of a pottery in Kali -bhanga dates as to 2245  +/- 115 B.C. The author of the excavation thought it to be superior to Harrapa objects. Amri culture Potteries Carbon sample dates it to a date before 2,500 B.C. Indian mythology at various place mentions Sumeria and its culture.

Imperialism was the dominating factor in the Indian politics before the end of Vedic age (as defined by historians), and it was symbolised by the time honoured Ashvamedha sacrifice. The Aitereya Brahamana mentions no less than twelve Kings who “went everywhere, conquering the earth, upto its ends, and sacrificed the sacrificial horse.” Three of them, as well as several other Kings, are stated in the Satapatha Brahamana to have performed Ashvamedha sacrifices. The Puranas reckons Parikshit (the grand son of Pandavas brother Arjun) as the founder of a new dynasty, the Paurava, and give a list of thirty kings belonging to it. Parikshit and his son and the successor Janamejaya loom large in Mahabharat, and the latter is mentioned in the Aitareya Brahamana as one of the twelve universal sovereigns. The great Bharat war according to the Mahabharat was fought with a view to bringing the whole of India under one political authority, and this was successfully accomplished by the decisive victory of Pandavas. But this political unity did not last long.

The Indian culture, religion, education, spread and influenced almost every corner of eastern Asia, which includes China, Thailand, Malaya, Burma, Indonesia, Java & Sumatra, Japan etc. as mentioned in history. Indian cultural influence extended to west and Central Asia as well. There was no attempt at political expansion in the west; this cultural expansion was so much that it extended further. There was an Indian Kingdom in Khotan alleged to have been founded by a son of emperor Ashoka. Buddhism was introduced in that kingdom more than a century after its establishment. Both Sanskrit and Prakrt were studied in Khotan. The whole of central Asia was a meeting place different culture and it was a silk route between Rome and China.

 Chinese Turkestan named and called by Sir Aurel Stein as the innermost heart of Asia, and the remains in Turkestan finds at different sites explored or excavated by archaeologists have established beyond doubt that a large number of Indians had migrated from Punjab and Kashmir and settled in the Tarim basin where they built numerous cities. Indian thought were so firmly planted that when Sir Stein was exploring that region he felt as if he was in some Punjab, village although he was 3,220m Kms away from the land.

 History prints the oldest civilisation existed in Indus valley before 6000 BC, and the Dravidian’s built this highly civilised big town. The Aryans that were a pastoral race might have come to India some 2000 years ago. Though it is not exactly known what happened to the Indus people or their civilisation, it may be assumed that they intermingled with the incoming Aryans who adopted the Indian culture on their own. The Dravidian’s were Shaviks, the Idol worshipers of the Lord Shiva, and were perhaps the builders of city civilisation of the Indus valley, the remains of which are found at Mohenjo-daro and Harrapa and other Indus cities. If we look at the great Eliphata Caves found in the coastal island of Mumbai, the large big old statues, there tells the story that the Dravidian culture existed and flourished in India much before the Aryan culture. This is what the historian and Archaeologists say about the Indus valley civilisation.

 Excavation at Sangan Kalla, Mysore and at several places in India, have yielded evidence to show that in this region, microliths are of considerable antiquity, positively before the Neolithic or polished Axe Culture or the beginning of Agriculture, as dated and described by the Historians.

It is strange reality, that the European Historians (who do not have or challenge the antiquity of their History) have written the Indian History, and in doing so, have totally ignored the Indian writings and date chronology, to the extent that they have also dated the composition of Veda at around 1500 BC and 900 BC as the age of Mahabharat. In doing so they have rejected most of the writing of their own renowned Historians.

The Englishmen in their context of writing history have omitted valuable findings which did not suit their long-term strategic interest in India and have deliberately drafted the history which is most conflicting and damaging. In their bid to write history the Englishmen made Archaeology, Epigraphy, geography, culture religion and science as their source of writings. They have wrongly, deliberately named and accepted certain dates being the date of the writing of our Holy Granths and knowingly left some Granths as being the writings’ of Epic age. Most of the source of writing which conflicted their version of History was not considered and left out as unreliable and now desires a second look in the current world context.