West, The Holy Bible and India

The intent of this article is not to hurt any Christian sentiment but it is an attempt to expose to the reader the another version which is very less talked about, though, it’s impact is unmeasurable like the Hindu extremism and Islam extremism.

When I was in higher school and going through the ancient history of India, I came across two terms, "Aryans" and "Dravidian". A basic delve will reveal that Aryans were those who resided in Northern part of India and Dravidians were those who had loosed at the hands of Aryans and pushed to the Southern part of India. Aryans being a very-very talented race, outperformed the Dravidian and became the ruler of this country of great diversity called India. 

One question which arose in my mind later was, "Why there is no mentioning of such history in the ancient transcripts? Why do I find them only in the modern history books? Is there any transcript or manuscript which talks about such version? If it is then why doesn't it find it's stand in the present days as a proof ?"

The questions were too much and I don't remember them all, but as I grew these questions got modified. "Is it just a simple version of history to make the things more clearer? Is it just an attempt to make us understand about the times through which our ancestors have gone? Or is it something else ?? "

These questions got a "push" factor when I came to Kerala, God's own Country. As I researched on this, I found answers which did not only shaken me up from toe to head but also forced me to think, " The amount which many of us fund to many missionaries without prior research analysis about them, does it make it worth of it or it goes in drawing fault-lines in my own country? " The answer perhaps turned out that a few institutions in the name of the Holy-Bible are not only promoting evangelism in the name of few perks but also jeoparadising the integrity of India.

Aryans and Dravidian

The term Aryans and Dravidians (as a historical concept) are not Indian. They were introduced and promoted by Britishers itself. These two terms got there significant impact in the syllabus of few recognized South Indian University. The funda of the westerners at that time was very simple "Divide and Rule", and that is what they did. Research were organized by them in a sequential pattern for drawing fault-lines :  first they, with the help of old testament of the Holy Bible, proved slave trade, punishing slave etc. legal and few Christian priests endorsed them. (http://www.amazon.in/Bible-Defense-Slavery-Origin-History/dp/1151170895/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382187235&sr=1-2&keywords=bible+defense+of+slavery) They used this as a tool wherever they went. When they came to India, they took the advantage of it's diversity.Lord Risley, Monier Williams, Karl Wilhelm Freidrich Schlegel were few of the people who were busy in giving shape to this fact that Aryans were of European origin, few of them migrated to India and with their great skills pushed the "locals". But later their great culture decayed because they got mixed with inferior race. Paralley, the Church evangelists were busy in creating a "dravidian" race which had to be basically based on Christian philosophies and not Indian. Such was their desperation that they got many Tamilian scholars as their supporters and a reknown tamilian scholar, M.S. Purnalingam Pillai's book, A Premier of Tamil Literature(1904) took the missionary thesis as the basis. This book was written specifically to fulfill the university examination needs, and even included an appendix with sample questions for students. 

Pillai assigned the Kural(this book is considered as a holy scripture by the South Indians and indeed, it is) to the Sangam period upto 100 CE, which he claimed was the most influential Tamil period and free from the influence from Aryans and Sanskrit. Alexander D. Campbell and Francis Whyte Ellis, then collector of Madras wrote Campbell-Ellis book, Grammar of Teloogoo Language (1816), opened doors by arguing that Tamil and Telugu had common non-Sanskrit ancestor. No Indian thinker had made such a claim before. (for details read Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines).  

The Criminal Tribes Act was passed in 1871 which made it lawful to perform genocide against a list of tribes who were deemed to be "criminal", endorsing the slave argument in the Old Testaments of the Holy Bible (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_and_slavery). They were executing every action to justify their culture and prove this to Dravidians that they were considered as slaves by the Aryans and treated according to Bible in a "Holy" way.

Veena Oldenburg's book, Dowry Murder has given details on how Britishers through there convoluted logic promoted dowry and it was during British times that dowry gained its ground in India and not before that. What they had done was very simple, they took away women's traditional right.

Everything here was being done on the name of Churches, which were meant to be for social cause, and the Holy Bible, but the story was completely based on self-interest and easy expansion, no matter it follows genocide or worse than that.

Attempts were made by many great Indians to demonize this theory and they succeeded to much extent but could not eliminate it. B.R, Ambedkar rejected the "Nasal Index" theory of Britishers which was a parameter for distinguishing the Aryans and Non-Aryans but the story still carries on. 

Conclusion

Definitely one need to re-look over this concept of Aryans and Dravidians or Dasyus and if necessary, eliminate it not from the text necessarily, but from our soul which was implanted by foreign powers who ruled us for 200 years. More than that one can definitely argue that untill and unless we could not free ourselves from this concept and keep on believing these Missionaries (not all of them) which have still kept us in British India, we are "not free India".