Most Ancient Aryan Society

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

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While discussing the main characteristic of the Aryan Gana life; I have discussed the views of Morgan, the Western representative scholar and the views of Jayaswal, the Eastern representative scholar, on the subject. The conculsions of Morgan on Āryan Gana Society are vitiated for three shortcomings. Morgan did not rightly appreciate the culture and civilization of Sumer and Egypt, knowledge about which was available in this times through archaeo. logical finds and literature. He had no access to the archaeological discoveries in the Ægean and Bhāratiya regions. Secondly, he had not studied Rgveda. His remarks on the Brahmáryan social system are vague and superficial. He did not contact the spirit of the Brahmäryan institutions. Thirdly, he did not appreciate rightly the Āryan problem. He presumed the main characteristics of gens, genos and Gaņa purely Aryan. He could not distinguish the Āryan and the Non-Aryan elements in them. He did not understand the current of the Aryan Way. He did not make use of the available literature on the subject. Jayaswal was too much obsessed by his national spirit which betrayed the scientist in him though his researches greately enhanced the prestige of ancient Aryan institutions in Bharata. He did not go to the Vedic problem of Gana and Jana and being misled by the word 'Rajan' enunciated his famous theory that Monarchy in Bhārata preceded Democracy which today stands exploded. Any structure built on the foundation of these inherently wrong researches is bound to topple down.
The economic aspect of communism was based upon the researches of Marx himself. The revolutionary theory of Surplus Value in
the domain of Political Economy was epochal upon Marxist Thesis which the foundation of Marxism has been laid. The of Progress Unfondded social aspect of communism, the theory of family
and private property, alongwith its political aspects, the theory of State, was founded upon the researches of Morgan. Communism under-estimated the mis.role of religion. It proved a bit charitable to religion. Religion played more havoc than Marx and Engels could think. This wrong foundation led the Fathers of Communism to lay down a wrong doctrine that the thesis, the from of the newer society, is a progress