Swami
Vivekanada on Aryan Invasion Theory
From Vol.3, The
Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
"Our archaeologists' dreams of India being full of
dark-eyed aborigins, and the bright Aryans came from - the Lord knows where.
According to some, they came from Central Tibet; others will have it that they
came from Central Asia. There are patriotic Englishmen who think that the Aryans
were all red-haired. Others, according to their idea, think that they were all
black haired. If the writer happens to be a black haired man,the Aryans were all
black haired. Of late, there was an attempt made to prove that the Aryans lived
on the Swiss lake. I should not be sorry if they had been all drowned there,
theory and all. Some say now that they lived at North Pole. Lord bless the
Aryans and their habitations! As for the truth of these theories, there
is not one word in our scriptures, not one, to prove that the Aryans came from
anywhere outside of India, and in ancient India was included Afghanistan. There
it ends."
"And the theory that the Shudra caste were all
non-Aryans and they were a multitude, is equally illogical and irrational. It
could not have been possible in those days that a few Aryans settled and lived
there with a hundred thousand slaves at their command. The slaves would have
eaten them up, made Chutney of them in five minutes. The only explanation
is to be found in the Mahabharatha, which says that in the beginning of the
Satya Yuga there was only one caste, the Brahmins, and then by differences of
occupations they went on dividing themselves in to different castes, and that is
the only true and rational explanation that has been given. And in the coming
Satya Yuga all other castes will have to go back to the same condition"
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