Digital Diary : 2023: B

 09/06/2023 

India ... AIT (Aryan Invasion Theory)

The big Aryan-Dravidian debate: Inventing an invasion that never took place in India ...

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Aryan Invasion Theory(AIT) ....  Link  

A) About AIT. It was German linguist Max Muller who in the 19th century proposed that 3,000-4,000 years ago an Indo-European (the Aryans) tribe invaded the subcontinent and brought along with it Indo-Aryan religion (Hinduism) , its culture and the caste system. ....

B) As part of the Rakhigarhi Project, DNA samples from 5000-year-old Harappan bones were found to be identical to current Indians’ DNA, debunking the idea.

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Book: A Survey of Hinduism: Third Edition Paperback – Illustrated, July 5, 2007

by Klaus K. Klostermaier (Author) 

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Friedrich Max Müller (German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈmaks ˈmʏlɐ];^[1][2] 6 December 1823 – 28 October 1900) was a German-born philologist and Orientalist, who lived and studied in Britain for most of his life. He was one of the founders of the western academic disciplines of Indian studies and religious studies  ..... Link  

For Müller, the culture of the Vedic peoples represented a form of nature worship, an idea clearly influenced by Romanticism.  ..... 

In Müller's view, "gods" began as words constructed to express abstract ideas, but were transformed into imagined personalities. Thus the Indo-European father-god appears under various names: Zeus, Jupiter, Dyaus Pita. For Müller all these names can be traced to the word "Dyaus", which he understood to imply "shining" or "radiance". This leads to the terms "deva", "deus", "theos" as generic terms for a god, and to the names "Zeus" and "Jupiter" (derived from deus-pater). In this way a metaphor becomes personified and ossified. This aspect of Müller's thinking was later explored similarly by Nietzsche.  ......

On 25 August 1866, Müller wrote to Chevalier Bunsen:

India is much riper for Christianity than Rome or Greece were at the time of St. Paul. 

# — The Life And Letters Of The Right Honourable Friedrich Max Müller Vol.i, Chapter X^[ 

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In his career, Müller several times expressed the view that a "reformation" within Hinduism needed to occur, comparable to the Christian Reformation.

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Henotheism is the worship of a primary god or gods that does not deny the existence or possible existence of other deities.^[1][2] Friedrich Schelling (1775–1854) coined the word, and Friedrich Welcker (1784–1868) used it to depict primitive monotheism among ancient Greeks.^[3] 

^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism}