Most Ancient Aryan Society

Author(s): Ram Chandra Jain
Publisher: Institute of Bharatalogical Research Sriganganagar Rajasthan

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( 121 ) languages often called also the Kolarian?. The Munda or Austric language, secluded in a part of Bhārata today, was widespread throughout Bhārata in those times. The people, speaking the Austric languages, were the original masters of the whole of Bhārata before the violent intrusion of the Aryan invaders.
The Austric origin of these words reflect the culture and civilization of the proto-Austroloid pre-Aryan people of Austric Culture. Bhārata. The aforesaid Austric words suggest
Pattern that pre-Aryan Bhāratīyans belonged to Abi and Ikşavaku races. They were mainly urban people enjoying settled life. They had developed the art of agriculture. They took to plough cultivation. They were the first discoverers of the cultivation of rice. They raised cotton and sugar crops. They manufactured sugar from cane. The art of weaving was an Austric invention. They wore fine clothes. They led a life of material comforts and luxury. Their military weapon was bow and arrow. They were the first to domesticate and train the elephant. Their social structure was based on matriarchy signifying prestige and power of womanhood in equality with men. Their philosophy was based upon the conception of existence as Animate and Inanimate. This Austric-Way stands in direct contradiction to the Aryan-Way. The Austric-Way is no other than the Sramaņic-Way. Both are one and the same thing.
Rice was the chief staple food of the Eastern Bhārata. It was not grown in Iran. Rice cultivation was invented
in pre-historic neolithic Bhārata. It travelled Rice
to China by way of the Yangtze about 2000 B. C.8 The Aryans did not come in contact with rice even in south Russia or Iran. Rice gained great importance with