They refused to accept any civilizational could be older than 4000 years because of the great flood.
So often they tried to fit the evidence into their narrative. As we know today very many civilizations can be dated to much further in time.
Fwiw I’m Hindu.
Character assassination based on your subjective psychoanalysis is not a polite thing to do on a public forum.
'The Horse, The Wheel, and Language' - those are slim evidences made to fit a narrative.
The narrative clearly starts with negating the out of India theory instead to favour a Central Asia/European roots.
But really what kind of evidence do we have for the existence of a sophisticated culture in Germany that predates Harappa.
I don't know why Indian nationalists take a root at pontic Caspian steppes as an attack against antiquity of our culture. It doesn't take anything away from us. They were not Europeans or something. They didn't attack and invade the indigenous mostly mixed with them. Before them there were migrations from zagros mountains etc..
> Central Asia/European roots.
They are not the same.
> But really what kind of evidence do we have for the existence of a sophisticated culture in Germany that predates Harappa.
You clearly have not read the book. It's not Germany, it's Pontic Caspian steppes, approximately in modern day Ukraine if I recall correctly.
Fly in the ointment, there hasn't been any land at the North pole for quite some time. Why the choice ? perhaps to help themselves to some notion of exceptionalism, uniqueness, so on and so forth.
I get it, everyone wants to feel a little special, it gets dangerous when that becomes a sizeable political force. More so, if they feel they have not been given their rightful due and/or humiliated. Wish there was a moral analogue of "now now dont be hurt, yes baby you are so very special, have a candy bar" in the international arena.
I am ethnically Hindu but an athiest (which, by the way, does not disqualify me from being a Hindu)
There is a strong reason to believe it is biased.
Let them produce physical evidence of cultural artifacts that predates and connects those found all accross the Indian subcontinent.
We can then discuss out of India vs Aryan invassion theory.
Everything including genetic evidence supports that.
You seem to be highly convinced by nationalistic pseudoscience. Open your mind and apply some logic.
Indian sources and Puranas themselves point to a much older timeline.
> nationalistic pseudoscience
That applies more to the kind of theories and other race sciences spewed by the colonists that ultimately lead to the holocaust in Germany.
Please update yourself with the latest findings and learn to be suspicious of the material from the colonial times.
Please update yourself from well credited academia and not suspicious newspaper articles or pop culture.
Academics also agree nazi stuff was pseudoscience. You are attacking a straw man.
The linguistic and genetic evidence points at a migration, you can't read r/chodi and believe it's true, while simultaneously hating Nazis.
Indian nationalists are considered annoying for a reason. You people take offense at people saying Indians didn't invent aeroplanes 10K years ago. Go read some science.
With all your colonial hate, your "indigenous" ""science"" is limited to claiming smoke from havanas purifies air, and sanskrit is best computer language.
You stand against everything your founder, Vinayak Savarkar, fought for.
As I have said earlier the racial contours of USA/West in general have vested interest in polluting research in this field.
It's the Indian nationalists who were multiple times caught faking evidence to assert indigenous Aryans theory.
It is incredible that Wikipedia too just quotes this single individual on hundreds of pages somehow giving him and his claims credibility. His claims have been refuted by many using plethora of evidence but his citation cartel will simply dismiss it by attacking the authors instead of their research.
One thousand years doesn't take anything away from it though.