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The debate on the Aryan Invasion /Migration theory has been a historic one. The idea was first propounded by Max Muller, a german philologist who studied the vedas and found similarities between Sanskrit and european languages like greek and latin. The basic premise of the theory was that Indians being a primitive people and racially inferior to the Europeans could not be the authors of civilization in India and civilization in India had to be introduced from outside. Before Max Muller, when western academia did not know of ancient India, the mainstream thought was that civilization was introduced to India by Alexander of Macedonia. The introduction of Indic Studies and ancient texts like the vedas in europe prompted the Aryan Invasion hypothesis. It basically stated that the dark skinned Indians before the arrival of the master european race of the Aryans were a primitive people who were introduced of civilization by the Aryans. This theory was the critical moral plat...

"In the happiness of his subjects lies the king's happiness, in their welfare his welfare. He shall not consider as good only that which pleases him but treat as beneficial to him whatever pleases his subjects" – Arthashastra by Kautilya, circa 300 BC. India, as we know, is a land of hoary antiquity, the cradle of civilization and its people are the inheritors of a glorious unbroken cultural tradition whose evolution spans a time interval of over seven millennia. India is endowed with unparalleled diversity and amount of natural wealth and its people have been the pioneers of significant advances the human race has made along with other great and ancient civilizations. Today’s India appears as an epitome of extreme dichotomy. We are viewed by the world as a third world country, still recovering from a colonial hangover, and struggling to counter the poisonous tides of terrorism, poverty, unemployment and numerous such evils. At the same time we are one of the few nations...