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( 77 ) When these people crossed the frontiers of their habitat and spheres of influence and came in contact with people with a different way of living; there were naturally reactions and interactions. Race is a modern conception indicating community of certain similar, external features of a group of human beings. Different Āryan and non-Aryan races speak different Aryan languages. Hence to call those who speak Aryan languages of Aryan race would be unscientific. The Greeks of the Mediterranean race and the Persians of the proto-Australoid race spoke and speak Aryan languages but they do not belong to Nordic or Aryan race. Aryans cannot be equated with Nordic race. Hence there is no such race as Aryan.
Several modern scholars understand by Arya a distinct culture and civilization. Aryan culture and Aryan Āryan Culture .... civilization have become watchwords of racial
superiority bordering arrogance. But Aryan culture and civilization has so much been reacted and interacted upon that it has become very difficult to find pure Āryan culture and civilization. When Greekāryans reached Greece; they met a strong, powerful and superior pre-Hellenic culture there. The mingling ot the two cultures was so organic and chemical, that it is not easy to separate their independent elements. West Asia in the age of the Aryan people of mountians celebrates the triumph of its culture though it politically decayed. Bhārat repeats the same history
But the Aryan in its fundamentals still persists through the course of forty centuries. I understand by Aryan, a The Āryan Way, the Aryan Way. The undivided Aryans
had developed in their own peculiar way, conditioned by geological and geographical environments, their customs, manners, institutions and beliefs which
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