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This "[[Nordic race]]" theory gained traction following the publication of [[Charles Morris (American writer)|Charles Morris]]'s ''The Aryan Race'' (1888), which argued that the "original Aryans" could be identified by their blond hair and other Nordic features, such as [[cephalic index|dolichocephaly]] (long skull). A similar rationale was followed by [[Georges Vacher de Lapouge]] in his book ''L'Aryen et son rôle social'' (1899, "The Aryan and his Social Role"), in which the French anthropologist argued that the "dolichocephalic-blond" peoples were natural leaders, destined to rule over more brachiocephalic (short-skulled) peoples. Archetypes of these short-skulled people, according to Vacher de Lapouge, were the [[Jew]]s.<ref>{{citation| last =Vacher de Lapouge|first=Georges|last2=Clossen, C., trans.| title = Old and New Aspects of the Aryan Question| journal = [[The American Journal of Sociology]]| volume = 5|issue= 3|pages = 329–346| year = 1899| doi =10.1086/210895}}.</ref> To this idea of "races", Vacher de Lapouge espoused what he termed ''[[eugenics|selectionism]]'', and which had two aims: first, achieving the annihilation of trade unionists, considered "degenerate"; second, the prevention of labour dissatisfaction through the creation of "types" of man, each "designed" for one specific task (See the novel [[Brave New World]] for a fictional treatment of this idea).
Meanwhile, in India, the [[British Raj|British colonial government]] had followed
As is well known, it was the renowned German scholar [[Max Muller]] who, in the 19th century, attempted for the first time to date the Vedas. Assuming that the Sutra literature was datable to the 6th century BCE, he gave a block-period of 200 years to the preceding three parts of the Vedic literature, namely the Aranyakas, Brahmanas and Vedas. Thus, he arrived at 1200 BCE as the date of the Vedas. However, when his contemporaries, like Goldstucker, Whitney and Wilson, objected to his ad-hocism, he toned down, and finally surrendered by saying (Max Muller 1890, reprint 1979): “Whether the Vedic hymns were composed [in] 1000 or 1500 or 2000 or 3000 BC, no power on earth will ever determine.” But the great pity is that, in spite of such a candid confession by the savant himself, many of his followers continue to swear by his initial dating, viz. 1200 BCE.
The ultimate effect of this blind tenacity was that when in the 1920s the great civilization, now known variously as the Harappan, Indus or Indus-Sarasvati Civilization, was discovered in South Asia, and was dated to the 3rd millennium BCE, it was argued that since the Vedas were no earlier than 1200 BCE, the Harappan Civilization could not have been Vedic. Further, since the only other major linguistic group in the region was the Dravidian, it was held that the Harappans were a Dravidian-speaking people.
Then in 1946, Sir [[Mortimer Wheeler]] discovered a fortification wall at [[Harappa]] and on learning that the Aryan god Indra had been referred to as Purandara (destroyer of forts) he readily pronounced his judgment (Wheeler 1947: 82): “On circumstantial evidence Indra [representing the Aryans] stands accused [of destroying the Harappan Civilization].” In further support of his thesis, he cited certain human skeletons at Mohenjo-daro, saying that these were the people massacred by the Aryan invaders. Thus was reached the peak of the ‘Aryan Invasion’ theory.<ref>http://www.archaeologyonline.net/artifacts/19th-century-paradigms.html</ref>
Many Asuras were however Brahmins negating Aryan invasion since, Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT) is based on assumption that Brahminical Aryans invaded Dravidian Indus Valley Civilization. [[Vritra]] was Brahmin whose 99 Forts were destroyed by Lord Indra (Probably Title of indigenous Hindu Kings of Brahavarta - land between Rivers Saraswati & Drisdavati in modern Haryana). So, was Brahmin [[Ravana]] killed by Lord Rama. Marxist & Western historians term Indra's name "Purandhar" (destroyer of forts acquired from war with Vritra) as 'proof' of invasion of agricultural and animal-herding Aryans destroying city dweller Indus people and their forts. But, Vedas mention no place outside northwest India as homeland of Vedic Aryan people such as Central Asia and [[Saraswati River]] the mightiest river as per Vedas can either be Oxus (Greek form of ancient Vaksu which is a synonym for Saraswati river) or [[Ghaggar River]].<ref>http://aryaindian.blogspot.com/2009/03/aryans-did-not-bring-veda-to-land-of.html</ref> Austro-Asiatic people like Santhals, Kols, Mundas, Ho, Oraon, Korku & Negrito (in South India like current [[Irulas]] did exist in southeast India far away from Punjab region (probable birth place of Vedas). Modern Dravidians are same as north Indians as per some scholars and whatever physical difference are due to mixture with Austroloid and Negrito people of southeast India in varying proportions. Dravidian language lore talk of [[Kumari Kandam]] outside India from where Dravidian speaking colonial settlers (may not be same as modern south Indians who could took only their language) of distant past came which historians say from [[Elam]] (meaning homeland in [[Tamil]]) at Iran and in route left trace as [[Brahui]]s of southwest [[Pakistan]] ([[Baluchistan]]).<ref>http://www.hvk.org/articles/0302/200.html</ref>
The racialist ideas that were developing independently in India and Europe fused in esoterica. In ''[[The Secret Doctrine]]'' (1888), [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]] saw the "[[Root race#The fifth root race (Aryan)|Aryan root race]]" as the fifth of her seven "[[Root race]]s", dating their [[soul]]s as having begun to [[Reincarnation|incarnate]] about a million years ago in [[Atlantis]]. She considered "Abraham" to be a corruption of a word meaning "No Brahmin", from whom the [[Semitic|Semites]] – "degenerate in spirituality and perfected in materiality" – had descended, and who were one rung down on the Root Race scale. The Jews, according to Blavatsky, were a "tribe descended from the [[Chandala|Tchandalas]] of India, the [[Dalit|outcasts]]".<!--<ref>{{citation|last=Blavatsky|first=Helena Petrovna|title=The Secret Doctrine, the Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy|volume=II (Anthropogenesis)|publisher=Theosophical University Press|page=200}}.</ref> -->
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