The Aryan invasion theory has been a basis and justification of
Western interpretation upon the civilisation and history of India.
Although many Indologists within India have been influenced by such
thought, the theory has not met majority acceptance within India and
is even coming under attack in the West. David Frawley, one Sanskrit
scholar recognised both inside as well as outside of India has
assessed the current situation of the Aryan invasion theory thusly:
" One of the main ideas used to interpret - and generally devalue -
the ancient history of India is the theory of the Aryan invasion.
According to this account, India was invaded and conquered by nomadic
light-skinned Indo-European tribes from Central Asia around 1500-100
BC, who overthrew an earlier and more advanced dark-skinned Dravidian
civilization from which they took most of what later became Hindu
culture ... This idea- totally foreign to the history of India,
whether North or South, has become an almost unquestioned truth in
the interpretation of ancient history today. Today, after nearly all
the reasons for its supposed validity have been refuted, even major
Western scholars are at last beginning to call it into question." (
David Frawley, The Myth of the Aryan Invasion )
One main reason that the theory has been called into question is that
there is no primary evidence. No monuments to any heros of such
invasions have been excavated, no related cemetaries unearthed, no
battle fields identified in relation to the theory, no forts, in
short- nothing in the way of physical evidence. There is a host of
other incongruencies, but this is the general idea.
One major platform that Western scholars have relied upon to
substantiate the theory is etimology. They trace linguistic patterns,
encompassing East and West, and then by implication pinpoint a
central geographic area which then serves as a common point of origin
of the Indo-European language and race. This point, being basically
the Caucasians and mountaneous regions of Persia, is of course,
outside of India, such that the existence of the Aryan race in
Northern India is attributed to an invasion, and such is the
explanation they offer for the Caucasian presence in India.
It has often been pointed out that few other principal theories have
ever been accepted based on such indirect, flimsy evidence. When
something ends up being so rigidly imposed with such little basis, a
reasonable mind will look for other motives. Again we may rely on the
broad understanding of David Frawley:
" It is important to examine the social and political implications of
the Aryan invasion idea:
First, it served to divide India into a northern Aryan and southern
Dravidian culture which were made hostile to each other. This kept
the Hindus divided and is still a source of social tension.
Second, it gave the British an excuse in their conquest of India.
They could claim to be doing only what the Aryan ancestors of the
Hindus had previously done millennia ago.
Third, it served to make Vedic culture later than and possibly
derived from Middle Eastern cultures. With the proximity and
relationship of the latter with the Bible and Christianity, this kept
the Hindu religion as a sidelight to the development of religion and
civilization to the West.
Fourth, it allowed the sciences of India to be given a Greek basis,
as any Vedic basis was largely disqualified by the primitive nature
of the Vedic culture.
This discredited not only the 'Vedas' but the genealogies of
the 'Puranas' and their long list of the kings before the Buddha or
Krishna were left without any historical basis. The 'Mahabharata',
instead of a civil war in which all the main kings of India
participated as it is described, became a local skirmish among petty
princes that was later exaggerated by poets. In short, it discredited
the most of the Hindu tradition and almost all its ancient
literature. It turned its scriptures and sages into fantacies and
exaggerations.
This served a social, political and economical purpose of domination,
proving the superiority of Western culture and religion. It made the
Hindus feel that their culture was not the great thing that their
sages and ancestors had said it was. It made Hindus feel ashamed of
their culture - that its basis was neither historical nor scientific.
It made them feel that the main line of civilization was developed
first in the Middle East and then in Europe and that the culture of
India was peripheral and secondary to the real development of world
culture.
Such a view is not good scholarship or archeology but merely cultural
imperialism. The Western Vedic scholars did in the intellectual
spehere what the British army did in the political realm - discredit,
divide and conquer the Hindus.
In short, the compelling reasons for the Aryan invasion theory were
neither literary nor archeological but political and religious - that
is to say, not scholarship but prejudice. Such prejudice may not have
been intentional but deep-seated political and religious views easily
cloud and blur our thinking."
What impact does the Hollow Earth understanding have on this issue?
The impact that it has may be found in one of the best places to hide
anything- right under our noses, in the Puranas themselves! The
Puranas tell us that at the end of the Kali Yuga, Vedic culture
becomes regenerated from the interior of the Earth, after the Kalki
Avatar brings the Kali Yuga to a close. This is not the only
reference to the hollow earth in the Puranas, but it is the one which
indicates the origin of the Aryans ( Caucasian race ) on the surface
of the Earth.
The Caucasian race can easily be seen to stretch from Northern India
to Scandanavia and to European Russia. How far would it be from the
Artic coast of the Siberian and European side of the polar basin to
the opening suggested by several hollow Earth researchers, which is
offset from the North Pole just above the New Siberian Islands? ( See
the oval on the map in Chapter Seven ) A hop, skip and a jump- no
more than a few hundred miles. So how difficult would it be for the
Caucasian and, of course, other human races to re-introduce
themselves to the surface of the planet from this particular opening
at the end of every Kali Yuga? It does not seem that it would be so
difficult at all.
In addition, the fact that the Caucasian race is so light skinned in
Northern Europe is indicative of a top-down migration. This is
because in the Middle East and India, the race has a light tan
complexion. It is easier to go from a light complexion to a darker
complexion, while is is harder to believe that darker skinned
Caucasians migrated Northwards, then became sun bleached to their
present blond haired, blue eyed state- the genes which generate fair
complexions and blue eyes are passive. Therefore, we can surmise that
the Caucasians are not Caucasian in origin but rather, that their
surface migration began in Northern Europe, along the Artic basin,
from the Polar opening to the hollow Earth.
The reader may keep in mind that in milleniums past, these areas were
not as cold as they are now. As an example, we'll note that Viking
graves from 1,000 years ago have been opened up in Greenland, and it
was found that roots, at that time, had penetrated the coffins. Now
the graves lie under permafrost. This means that, previously,
vegetation existed in the area and that there was a different
climate.
In addition to the large, polar openings there are said to be tunnels
which connect the surface of the planet with the hollow portion.
Nicholas Roerich, for example, in his book Shambala, wrote of his
travels through Tibet in the 1920s, through the Karakorum Pass in the
Altai Mountains. He was shown caves closed up by boulders, and he
wrote of passing over what seemed to be hollow areas by the echos
from the horses hooves, and wrote of a current recollection of the
hollow Earth in the collective minds of the Tibetan people.
Therefore, any cyclical reappearance of Vedic civilisation and the
Caucasian race could manifest from at least two points which span the
length of the Aryan presence on our Earth, from top to bottom. The
Caucasian presence in Northern Europe could be explained by migration
from the polar opening, suspected of being situated above the New
Siberian Islands in the Arctic basin, while openings and tunnels in
the Tibetan region could account for Caucasian presence also, even
down as far as the Indian subcontinent.
No Caucasian migration into India is necessarily indicative of an
introduction of Vedic culture. Aryan insertion into any given area,
India included, could have simply reinforced already existent Vedic
culture without having been an introduction. It is not a matter,
really, of accounting for the Aryan presence in the Indian
subcontinent. Rather, it is a matter of accounting for human presence
on the surface of the planet after the end of every chatur yuga, and
the Hollow Earth Theory explains this admirably well in conjuction
with the appearance of the Kalki Avatar and regeneration of the
surface population from Shambhala and the hollow earth.
The hollow Earth theory certainly strenghtens the Puranic account of
a cyclical, re-population of the surface of our planet from the
madhyatah, the hollow portion, including its chief city Shambhalla,
and suggests that what is past will one day be prologue.
In this way, the hollow Earth theory offers an intriguing alternative
to previous interpretations of the Caucasian presence in India,
otherwise known as the Aryan Invasion Theory.
By Dean De Lucia/Dharmapada Dasa