RE: [JahajeeDesi2005]__ Fwd: The Story of India, a three-part BBC series on PBS - starting tonight, 9-11 pm

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Jan.6,2009

 

Namaste to all learned scholars,

Thanks for letting us know the program airing on USA TV Public Television Services .

I watched the program very closely .

It is basically what British wanted to tell to the world that the superior systematically classified scientific language- Sanskrit, a extraordinary mature Vedic culture of India came from Central Asia and thus perpetuated following myths:

1. Arya came out side India and Àryas are labeled as a race and are shown as invaders to India. Invasion occurred around 1500 B. C. Vaid›ic period: 1500-500 B. C..

 

4. 2.Êgved›a was written: 1000 to1500 B. C.

 

3. 3. There were no Horses in India only Aryans brought Horses when they invaded India.

 

 

 

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In Let us debunk the myth and set the records staright as follows:

 

In In 1996 Myself and Prof. Bhudev Sharma arranged Ist World Association for Vedic Studies conference in Atlanta, Ga. Theree all those do did excavation in Mhanjodaro and Harrappa area presented their research findings including B.B.Lal -he was shown in the documentary. The conference resolution was -- There was no evidence of Invasion by Arya, the same civilization continuously existed from Indus Saraswati area of India, and Arya is a title that means a noble person. Ramayan and Mahabhart define this world very clearly.

Horeses are mentioned in Rigvada and excavations at the sites revealed Coins having horses and Chariots.These kind of Chariots still can be seen driven by prosperous persons in Bikaner city of Rajasthan, the area dried when Saraswati River disappeared. People moved westword.

Westword migration of Indians can be studied by many Swastika forms and other artifects found on the silk road at Diya found in the excavations as shown in Turkistan, and other central asia regions.

Afghanistan, when the Sarasvatã River dried up many millennia B.C.. This has been thoroughly researched by satellite technology, cultural anthropology, and Indological studies. Recently, in 1996, “The World Association for Vedic Studies,” arranged an international conference on “Revisiting Indus -Sarasvati Age and Ancient India”, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., which was attended by eminent scholars of anthropology, archeology, philosophy, linguistics, and religion. These scholars, whose number exceeded three hundred, concluded that “recent archeological discoveries have fully established the existence of a continuous evolution of a civilization on the Indian sub-continent from about 5,000 B.C., which remained uninterrupted through 1000 B.C.. There is not any scope, whatsoever, to support an Aryan invasion theory”(17). Most recently, Dr.Rajaram and Dr. Natwar Jha, are credited with having successfully deciphered 2,000 seals from Harappa archeological excavations of Indus-Sarasvati basin. Dr. Richard Meadows of Harvard University, director of the Harappa Archeological Research Project, dated the latest discovered writings on the piece of Harappa archeological pottery sample, which was of 3,500 B.C.. Meadows further stated that these Indus inscriptions found on pottery pre-dates all other known writing. Dr. Rajaram, who is, also, an expert on artificial intelligence, has been a consultant at NASA (National Aeronautic and Space Administration). Dr. Rajaram has deciphered the latest finding which read “Ila vartate vara,” which means that “Sarasvati surrounds the blessed land.” Dr. Rajaram further stated in May, 1999, that “if the Êgved›ic concepts already existed by 3,500 B.C., scholars would have to re-examine the theory of Mesopotamia as being the Cradle of Civilization, and other theories like the Àryan invasion theory of Indian history has already been disproved.”[19]

 

The view is reinforced by Dr. Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, the guest curator and a Professor of anthropology at Elvehjem Museum of Art, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison while delivering a lecture on “Harappa: Early Writing and New Discoveries, (1999)” at the American Center Islamabad, Pakistan. Professor Kenoyer said, “we found Swastika symbols, establishing South Asian origins.” Professor Kenoyer further asserted that “we have found on Harappa site weights which had emerged in the Indus Valley earlier than in the Egyptian civilization.”[20]

 

Dr. J. G. Negi, emeritus professor at the National Geophysical Research Institute, Hydrabad, India, stated, in April, 1999, that archeological and Paleoclimatic studies have revealed that “Tectonic upheavals led to the destruction of Mohenjodaro settlements of the Indus-Sarasvati, or Indus Valley civilization in ancient India, and the drying up of Sarasvatã River. The destruction of the settlements were not from the Aryan invasion of India as popularly believed.” [18]

 

Many indigenous modern scholars like Maharíi D›ayànand›a Sarasvat›ã, Swàmã Vivekànanda, Swàmã Shrad›d›hànanda, Swàmã Ràmt›ãrth, Yogã Aurobindo, and Nobel Laureate Ravindranàth Tagore, have researched and concluded that the Himàlayas and the river-banks were the original abode of the Àryas. [1-4, 6-8, 10-12]

 

It is worthwhile to mention that a very important historical event occurred on April 10, 1866. A secret meeting was held in the Royal Asiatic Society in London, England, where a conspiracy was concocted “to induct the theory of the Àryan invasion of India”. The theory was intended to conceal the truth, “so the Indian would not say that the English were foreigners. All along, India was ruled by outsiders, and India continued to remain a slave under this benign Christian rule". "A clever clergy, Edward Thomas, spelled the theory with Lord Stangford as the chair.”[3]. It was the most prominent political move of that time. Since then, the British have made it a part of the Indian history curriculum.

 

2) The total period that elapsed since the dawn of Vaid›ic civilization is 1.96 billion years up to 1998 A.D. [4, 10-12]. Carl Sagan, a professor of astronomy and space sciences at Cornell University, determined that the life of the earth is 4.6 billion years, and the life of the sun is five billion years [15]. Therefore, the figures given by ancient Vaid›ic sages need not startle any one.

 

3) Any follower of Hind›ï, Jain, and Sikh religions knows that the Ràmàyaça Period preceded the Mahàbhàrat›a Period, (see question #7) and not the other way around, as stated in the tenth grade, Georgia high school, world literature textbook. This distortion is taught throughout the western world and is not limited to Georgia. The Ràmàyaça Period, T›retàyuga, preceded the Mahàbhàrat›a Period, Dvàparyuga, by many a millennia. The Mahàbhàrat›a was written in the Dvàparyuga Period. The "death," leaving the material body, of Írã Kêìça marks the end of the Dvàparyuga Period and the beginning of the present Kaliyuga. Since then 5,101 years have passed until 1999, A.D. 8,10-13]

The distorted "World Literature” is taught throughout the western world. Far from an isolated incidence, the well-planned strategy by these intellectuals, is to discredit and disgrace any other philosophy that is not in their belief.

Note: The periodic migration of miscellaneous Vedic populations from ancient greater India to the west; since ,antiquity is depicted as follows:

 

a) Khatta, Khattic, or Khattish languages were spoken by the ancient people of Hattusa, which were discovered in the ruins of the Hittite archives at Bogazkoy of the modern Turkey. Hittite were the Indo-European settlers in this region as mentioned in the Encyclopedia Britannica.

By studying cultural anthropology the remnants of the migration of an ancient Indian civilization to ancient Egypt can be traced. The musicians of the Nile carried the same traditions as those of the ancient bards of India. The recently produced film, Latcho Drom, directed by Tony Gatlif, traces the great musical voyage from India to Egypt. Recently

a) the released compact disc (CD) “The musicians of the Nile”; Charcoal Gypsies, 1996, by Real World Record Ltd., New York, N.Y., has brought the discovery of deep seated Rajasthani style Indian music to the Arabic music listeners of the world, for the music is substantiated by National Public Radio commentary.

 

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219 220The Chaldean people belonged to a small town in present day Iraq, called Ur. In ancient times Iraq was called Mesopotamia. According to Premsukh Poonai, M.D., Ph.D., Mesopotamia was also called Madhyam Pastaranam, land between the rivers. He, also, described the similarities of skulls excavated at Ur. Erech, Eridu, Kish, Al Ubaid, Siyalk, and Anau of Mesopotamia as that of excavations of Indo–Sarasvati and Indo-Gangetic regions. In his book “Origin of Civilization and Language” he stated that “early Sumer was a land of large peasant farms owned and operated by immigrant Indo-Rig-Vedic People.” He further asserted that various clans such as Assur Aryans became known as Assyrians, the Aggar people, as Akkads. The followers of Amar as Amorites, the Bhupalans as Babylonians, the Kshattris as Hittites, the Mitranas as Mittanni, the Madai as Medes, the Purusham Aryanam was shortened as Parthians, the Eyams as Elamites, and the Chaldeans. The elements that disseminated the vedic knowledge, over both the eastern and the western destinations, were generated and developed at the Indo-Gangetic–Himalayan regions.

a) The Mahàbhàrat›a states that the Gand›harva people lived in Gand›hàra which is present day Afghanistan. It is well established that gypsies migrated from India, which is proven by the studies conducted by the National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C. In India, Gand›harva, or gypsies are, also, known by a different popular name, ‘Banjàrà’, which means those who migrate from place to place, or from jungle to jungle, trading merchandize. The Gand›harva people are known to be migrating traders who, also, express their culture by singing and dancing. These people were the predecessors of the modern day gypsies.

a) About the migration of Vedic People from ancient greater India, Louis Jacolliot in her book “LaBible Dans L’Inde” in 1876 stated:

 

“India is the world’s cradle; thence it is, that the common mother in sending forth her children even to the utmost West, has in unfading testimony of our origin bequeathed us the legacy of her language, her laws, her morale, her literature, and her religion.”

 

“Traversing Persia, Arabia, Egypt, and even forcing their way to the cold and cloudy North, far from the sunny soil of their birth; in vain they may forget their point of departure, their skin may remain brown, or become white from contact with snows of the West; of the civilizations founded by them splendid kingdoms may fall, and leave no trace behind but some few ruins of sculptured columns; new peoples may rise from the ashes of the first; new cities flourish on the site of the old; but time and ruin united fail to obliterate the ever legible stamp of origin”.

My purpose of writing this email is to write to PBS and make them correct their distorted unrealistic thinking. All intellectuals please do write to PBS and email to PBS our concerns and to recorrect the distorted history. In democracy this is the benefit that some one may exlpore the truth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

jahajeedesi2005 From: deobisnathDate: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 17:02:35 -0800[JahajeeDesi2005]__ Fwd: "The Story of India," a three-part BBC series on PBS - starting tonight, 9-11 pm

 

 

 

 

--- On Mon, 1/5/09, Sree Sreenivasan <ss221 wrote:

"The Story of India," an ambitious six-hour BBC documentary, is running on PBS tonight and over the next two Mondays (9-11 pm ET - find your local listings here: http://www.pbs.org/tvschedules/ ). WSJ review compares it to the landmark "Planet Earth" series (see below).Let's track this series and review it over the next three weeks. Please post your comments as you see each episode at http://www.sajaforum.org/2009/01/tv-the-story-of-india.html - be specific about what you are commenting on, please.The series runs over three Monday nights, two hours each. The seriescovers more than 4,500 years of South Asian history, from the IndusValley Civilization to the 21st century. They won't even get to partition till the last hour.From the description:>>> Like other great civilizations—Greece or Egypt, for example—over themillennia it has enjoyed not just one but several brilliant goldenages in art and culture. Its great thinkers and religious leaders havepermanently changed the face of the globe. But while the glories ofRome, Egypt, and Greece, have all been the subject of TV portraits, asyet there has been no television story of India on our screens. Thisseries sets out for the first time to do that: to show a worldaudience the wonders of India; the incredible richness and diversityof its peoples, cultures and landscapes; and the intense drama of itspast, including some of the most momentous, exciting and moving eventsin world history.In this landmark six-part series for PBS and the BBC, Michael Woodwill embark on a dazzling and exciting journey through today's India,"seeking in the present for clues to her past, and in the past forclues to her future".<<<Here's a rave review by Michael Judge in the WSJ:>>> This is just the beginning of an expedition that draws a straight linefrom the ancient civilizations of the Indus Valley to the high-techwonders and wealth of Bangalore's Silicon Valley. Like the DiscoveryChannel's "Planet Earth," this is documentary television thatshouldn't be missed. As Mr. Wood explains with great verve at thestart of our voyage: "Only India has preserved the unbroken thread ofthe human story that binds us all."<<<EPISODE 1 & 2: Monday, Jan. 5Beginnings60,000 BCE–500 BCEThe Power of Ideas500 BCE–200 BCEEPISODE 3 & 4: Monday, Jan. 12Spice Routes & Silk Roads200 BCE–300 CEAges of Gold300 CE–1000 CEEPISODE 5 & 6: Monday Jan. 19The Meeting of Two Oceans1000 CE–1700 CEFreedom1700 CE –2009 CEThe accompanying website, at http://www.pbs.org/thestoryofindia/ , isone of the most video-filled I have ever seen, with videos even in thetimeline, the interactive gallery and elsewhere. See several shortvideos about the making of the film here. There are lesson plans forteachers here. There's so much on the website that I have barely had achance to skim the surface.

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