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Chapter Two Historical puzzles
In order to take our journey to the desired destination, it is necessary to arrange the scattered, relevant information described earlier at various stages in a proper manner. No skeletal remains of fabled Aryans Eminent historian Niharranjan Ray, in his book titled ‘Bangalir Itihas’, commented that Bengali is a 'mix race'. It is also written in that book that 'the people who created the unique Indian civilisation and culture have been termed proto-Nordic. They were the creators of the Vedic texts.’ In the next sentence, it has been declared, ‘In India, no skeletal remains of such people have been discovered.’ A question should naturally arise: why have no such remains been found? Sanskrit Language Knight Dunlap - "The Great Aryan Myth", published in ‘The Scientific Monthly’ Vol. 59, No. 4 (Oct., 1944), pp. 296-300. Generally, experts associate the Sanskrit language with the fabled Aryans. From the writings of Knight Dunlap, the following may be learnt: “In its commonest form, the Aryan myth postulated a group of people calling themselves ‘Aryans,’ who invaded India at sometime before the Christian Era and settled in the Indus Valley. Various speculative theories as to the location of the original “home” of these Aryans were invented by the scholars who credulously accepted the myth… We cannot date the origin of the myth earlier than the nineteenth century, because it was not until 1788 that Sir William Jones pointed out that the Greek, Latin, Celtic, French, and Germanic languages had definite affinities with the Sanskrit. In 1808 Freidrich Schlegel declared that Sanskrit was the parent language of the Indo-European group and identified it as the language of a parent Aryan race. Jones’ concept of an Indo-European family of related languages was rapidly accepted, and is accepted today, although the ‘family’ has been rather drastically revised in recent years; but Schlegel’s notion that the Sanskrit was the original Indo-European languages was soon discarded, even by those who gave credence to the myth of the Aryan race.” During the course of my journey, at least once a thought arose in my mind that Sanskrit might be the parent language of all the Indo-European languages. That idea opens up the possibility that a central civilisation was there that eventually disappeared from the face of the Earth. There is no restriction on why such a civilization could not have been present in the core area of Banga. Friedrich Max Müller was a German-born philologist and orientalist. He was one of the pioneers who founded the academic discipline known as Indian studies. The following opinion of Professor Max Muller may be learnt from the book titled ‘Origin of Hindu (Second Part) Arya Never Was Aryan’: “Aryan, in scientific language, is utterly inapplicable to race. It means language and nothing but language; and if we speak of Aryan race at all, we should know that it means no more than X+Aryan speech”. That deduction of Professor Max Muller is almost unassailable. Every bit of his statement stands vindicated in the light of various findings, except the incompleteness ingrained in the words ‘language’ and ‘speech’. If another word ‘concepts’ is added to ‘language’ and ‘speech’, then his statement probably becomes self-explanatory. In India, Sanskrit is known as Deb-Bhasha, which means ‘the language of the deities’ in English. When the great drowning of the island-mountain happened, no survivors were there in the area that is now known as the Ganga Plain. Probably no living soul was left in that geographical territory, which is currently known as India. The seas became too turbulent to sail. The related people to the ones present on that island who managed to survive in distant places did not inherit anything tangible. They inherited only the remnants of the culture of that land, apart from a few personal belongings. They inherited the grammar of the language that was in use in that land. Thalassocracy A thalassocracy, or thalattocracy, is a term that refers to the empires that expand into the sea in a considerable manner. It is said that such an empire did not expand into the inland areas, even when scope was there. Many experts on history say that some kind of thalassocracy was present there, around the ‘Banga’ region of ancient Bengal. The naming of many of the islands in Malaysia and Indonesia bears testimony to the influence of Sanskrit-related words in that region. The traditional culture of those archipelagoes, including the language, reflects the influence of Sanskrit in a significant manner. From India, the route for Sanskrit language and culture to reach those archipelagos had the maximum probability of going through the Bengal region. Thus, whether there was thalassocracy or not in the Bengal region in ancient times, the cultural closeness of that region to the archipelagoes is probably undeniable. Some historians claim that the ancient ‘Vanga’ Janapad, which is thought to have been present somewhere around the Bengal Basin, was a thalassocracy with colonies in Southeast Asia. Inhabitants of the ‘War’ region of the Bengal Basin that I referred to earlier who had direct access to the neighbouring open sea were very likely to create a sea-faring community and thus a thalassocracy. Apart from the ‘War’ region that I have described just now, there are references available in the old literature that the area that we know as 24-Paraganas at present, and which is mainly within the political boundary of the Indian part of Bengal, was known as the 'War’ region in earlier times. When this information is reflected on the illustration that I was compiling earlier, then that may be modified into the following: Ancient thalassocracies were present in places like West Asia, southern Europe, India, etc. One of the most well-known places where one of these empires existed and still carries its old name is Venice. The similarity between Venice and the Banga region did not escape the attention of the Europeans when they reached Bengal en masse around the seventeenth century. No history available for Bengal Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay opened one of his essays, titled ‘History of Bengal,’ with the comment that ‘There is no history available for Bengal.' He was quite aware that learned people like Marshman J. had already written and compiled whatever was available and qualified to be considered a historical account of Bengal. The list of Mahajanapadas, as available from Buddhist and Jain religious texts, included some territories in and around the area that is officially recognised as the Bengal Basin at present. Those texts referred to a time period that was more than 2600 years old from the present. Like any other person, Bankim Chandra also must have been aware of those descriptions. In spite of that, he commented that there is no history of Bengal. In some places, Bankimchandra lamented about the lack of detail in the past accounts of Bengal and India. But less detail is one thing, and no account is another. Something disturbed me when I started thinking that a materialistic person like Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, who was fully exposed to the western way of thinking and to the writings of the pundits that had become available in the public domain till that time, went on to comment that "no history has been written for Bengal". When the present proposition of a drowned civilisation, that was once present in the heart of the Bengal Basin is put into the scenario, then this puzzle is satisfactorily addressed. With the drowning of that civilisation, the past of the Bengal Basin has been wiped out. A completely new Bengali civilization was created later on in the ‘Tabula Rasa’ created by Mother Nature. Absence of archaeologically significant human skeleton To date, no skeletal remains of human beings that might be considered to have some archaeological significance have been discovered in the Bengal Basin. From the book titled ‘Origin of Bangla Ninth Part Bengal, Bengali, Culture, and The Spectre’ it may be learnt that fossils of ‘Homo sapiens’ have not been found within the Indian subcontinent in great numbers. Information about the unearthing of two such fossils has been reported in Sri Lanka. Those fossils have been dated to around 40000 years BP. However, the presence of rock art has been discovered in various caves in India, which have been dated at around 50000 years old. Many other articles have been found that are highly indicative of human presence in India during that period. Referring to some literature that has been published by scholars from Cambridge University, it may be said that modern humans reached India at around 70,000 years BP. It may be learnt from the book titled, ‘Origin of Hindu Arya Never Was Aryan’: experts tell us...
