Book Title: Most Ancient Aryan Society
Author(s): Ram Chandra Jain
Publisher: Institute of Bharatalogical Research Sriganganagar Rajasthan
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social and political instiutions; beliefs, superstitions and literature; religious, artistic, secular or otherwise; all depict human activities; physical and mental; of a particular people, in a particular age, of a particular region. To comprehend them otherwise is unreality which may become fraud. The scholars and the Scientists since the days of Sir William Jones in the fields of literature, archaeology, anthropology, geography, geology, physics and others; have unearthed and brought to life startling facts hitherto unknown. The large heaps of unsifted mass are lying unexplored. The necessity of further unearthing may not be denied but the age, now, is changing direction. The undaunted spirit of unearthing was so high in the past that the Science of interpretation did not receive due attention. We have, now to shift the direction of research, That is the necessity of the age. The spirit of original research is dying in Bharata after R. G. Bhandarkar, and more specially after thirtees of our century. The research has limited itself merely to re-arrangement of facts within a pre-conceived framework of ideology. There is nothing new or original. The-pre-conceived prejudices regarding the Aryan Way of life are mainly responsible for the stagnation of the spirit of research. The pre-Aryan people, their beliefs and institutions are totally ignored to the detriment of the true spirit of research. The Truth remains hidden. If people existed before the Aryans; they deserve sympathetic scientific treatment. Hence the whole outlook to the line of scientific research has to be completely changed in a revolutionary way. More emphasis, of necessity, shall have to be given to pre-Aryan life to know and understand truth so that the humanity may benefit from the history of its real march through ages. The organic critical method attempts to re-interpret the voluminous mass of available evidence in a chronologico dialectico-historical way. This method is organic and
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critical.
The chronologico-dialectico-historical (it may briefly be called Chrodhic) method has led me to locate the Aryan Cradle-Land in the territory of Uttarkuru, considered by the Aryans themselves as the heavenly land of their origin to which they always aspired to visit in the good old days. Uttarakuru is situate within the vast
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