Sister tete wrote:This is the only time I recall a discussion on Aryans (Indian ones) at some length and some how tied to Gyan. I just read and never commented. I too am still curious about how this all connects to BKs? I am assuming that "whites" are the double foreigners?!? It seems a touchy subject as it involves "castes" and what seem to be insensitivities or plain out racism! Arjun, what say you?
From a BK/PBK point of view the civilization began from the Indian sub-continent. So, the theory of Aryans having come from some other region of the world to India's Gangetic plain does not hold good from their point of view. According to them, humanity expanded/spread from India to other regions from Copper Age onwards.
As regards the differences in colour and other physical features, I guess (from a BK/PBK point of view) that with the onset of Copper Age, there must have been large scale changes in the atmosphere/environment of the Earth. When people migrated from India to other countries with different climatic conditions, they must have undergone some physical changes besides genetic mutations and then out breeding between different races would have produced a multi-ethnic world that we are living in at present.
It is not just BK/PBK point of view, but I have read articles in some magazines also which support the theory that Aryans were originally from India. But I think majority of the history textbooks teach the opposite.
Regards,
OGS,
Arjun