On 12/7/06, Rajeev Srinivasan <rajeev.srinivasan@gmail.com> wrote:
dec 7th, 2006
rajaram talks about how aryan-'dravidian' is the same as tutsi-hutu, a prelude to genocide, and fully manufactured by christist hate-mongers.
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November 27, 2006
Here is an excerpt from an article on the Aryan-Dravidian divide that
I wrote some years back where I had noted the Hutu-Tutsi racial divide
that led to bloodletting. I believe I have noted it also in my latest
book Sarasvati River and the Vedic Civilization.
Sri Saksena in his article has of course covered it much more
extensively.
N.S. Rajaram
British were by no means the only colonists to indulge in such
[rqcist] propaganda in the name of 'science'. This idea of
dividing a conquered people in the name of 'race science' was
a standard ploy of colonial officials and Christian
missionaries. Much of the bloodletting in ethnic conflicts in
Africa today is due to such mischief. Speaking of the recent
Hutu-Tutsi conflicts, the French anthropologist Jean-Pierre
Langellier wrote: "The idea that the Hutus and the Tutsis were
physically different was first aired in the 1860s by the
British explorer John Speke. The history of Rwanda [like that
of much of Africa] has been distorted by Pere Blancs [White
Fathers; Sic: Note there are no Pere Noir Black Fathers!]
missionaries, academics and colonial administrators. They made
the Tutsis out to be a superior race, which had conquered the
region and enslaved the Hutus. .Missionaries taught the Hutus
that historical fallacy, which was the result of racist
European concepts being applied to an African reality. At the
end of the fifties, the Hutus used that discourse to react
against the Tutsis."
Sound familiar? The Aryan-Dravidian conflicts are a carbon
copy of the same racist divide, or the 'convert and conquer'
policy. Fortunately that there is enough indigenous
scholarship in India to fight and refute such political
charlatanism, though it did succeed in dividing the people
into mutually hostile camps. This was mainly due to the
patronage extended to them by the ruling authorities- first
the British and then the Marxist dominated Congress. Better
sense is now beginning to prevail, though much too slowly. To
their eternal disgrace, the 'Secularist' and Marxist
historians of India and their political allies continue to
peddle this racist nonsense. They shall live in infamy. [Sic:
Soon to be joined by 'scholars' of so-called Indo-European
Studies.]
The basic problem with these race theories is that they are
based not on any laws of nature, but man-made classifications
that use externally observable features. As one scholar put
it: "The race concept has no scientific basis. Given any two
individuals one can regard them as belonging to the same race
by taking their common genetic characteristics, or, on the
contrary, as belonging to different races by emphasizing the
genetic characteristic in which they differ." As an
illustration, instead of choosing skin- and eye color as
defining parameters, if one were to choose height and weight,
one would end up with African Zulus and Scandinavians as
belonging to the same race. Noting such anomalies, Luigi
Cavalli-Sforza, widely regarded as the world's foremost human
geneticist, observed that such external features simply
indicate changes due to adaptation to the environment. He
points out that the rest of the genetic makeup of the human
family hardly differs at all.
The same is true of misconceptions that lie at the root of the
Aryan and Dravidian linguistic divide. The idea that different
languages of a 'family' branched off from a single root
language - sometimes called a proto-language - can be traced
to the story of the Tower of Babel found in the Bible.
Biblical beliefs like the creation of the world on October 23,
4004 BC have had great influence on the interpretation of
Indian history and culture by nineteenth century Europeans.
The great Max Muller himself admitted this Biblical belief was
the reason why he used 1500 BC as the date of the Aryan
invasion. W.W. Hunter, another well-known Indologist from the
same period was even more candid when he wrote: "...
scholarship is warmed with the holy flame of Christian zeal."
It is a fact that even in linguistics, the study of Dravidian
languages has been dominated by Christian missionaries from
Bishop Caldwell in the nineteenth century to Father Kamil
Zvelebil today. As a result, theological arguments rather than
any scientific met
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