Immortal India: Articles and Speeches by Amish

by Amish Tripathi

So, let us summarise: AIT/AMT proponents ask us to believe that there was this small bunch of nomadic people called the Aryans who came to India 3,500 years ago. It was too minuscule a band to show up in any archaeological or genetic records. And this tiny group did not indulge in any mass violence. But somehow, these mythical supermen managed to, peacefully, convince the far more populous, advanced and urbane Dravidians to migrate en masse to South India. Presumably they debated the so-called Dravidians into abandoning their homes. And while doing so, these nomadic ‘Aryan barbarians’ also overturned the entire linguistic and cultural landscape of India. Moreover, this allegedly foreign culture was so comprehensively absorbed, that it survives to this day, thousands of years later, across the country. Honestly, does this make any sense? Consider another paradox we are asked to swallow unquestioningly: the so-called Dravidians who built the greatest civilisation of its time (called the Harappan/Indus civilisation today), left no literature at all. On the other hand, these nomadic-barbarian ‘Aryans’, with no settled homeland, created the largest body of literature, philosophical and technical texts of that era. Creating narratives of history to reconcile these huge contradictions leads to more contortions than in a jalebi.