The AIT wild ass

Asko Parpola is repaying his debt to the Dravidian party by coming up with more wild ass theories. Its the same old theories on wild asses, missing horses, the Aryans coming on the dot at 1600 BCE to drive the Dravidians down south, the seals, etc. The world has dropped the aryan invasion theory; the migration theorists say the aryans could not have come after 2500 bce and keep pushing the date even further into the past. But chindu keeps promoting such wild asses.
The Hindu : Today's Paper / OPINION : The Indus script and the wild ass

Bones or depictions of the domestic horse and the donkey are not found in South Asia before 1600 BCE. ...the term was transferred to the similar-looking donkey when this newcomer came to South Asia from the west through the Indus Valley.

Propagating a separate Dravidian identity

Chindu has shown more than a fair interest in propagating a separate Dravidian identity, which is in line with the politics of the dominant dravidian parties in Tamilnadu.
The citadels of Aryan invasion have been demolished to rubble. So these eminent Dravidian researchers have come up with Aryan immigration and established it as a "fact". Just like Karunanidhi asked for Ram's engineering degree, we should stand up and ask these Dravidian researchers to show us the immigration visas of these Aryans.
The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : Parpola and the Indus script

He has published a long series of brilliant papers to establish the fact of Aryan immigration into South Asia after the decline of the Indus Civilisation.

More wild ass speculation

The eminent historians featured on the pages of chindu keep repeating that discredited theory on aryan invasion. If you care to read papers other than this rag publications, you will see that:
the Indus civilisation is being regarded as the Vedic civilization,
it is a continuous civilisation without any evidence of invasion,
the so-called dravidian civilization is the same as the vedic civilization.
But the dravidian parties want to propagate the myth of a separate identity. It has paid them rich political dividends so far. Now they are institutionalizing it through some awards too.
The Hindu : Opinion / Interviews : Deciphering the Indus script: challenges and some headway

Rigvedic hymns often speak of horses and horse-drawn chariots, and the horse sacrifice, ashvamedha, is among the most prestigious Vedic rites. The only wild equid native to the Indian subcontinent is the wild ass, which is known from the bone finds of the Indus Civilisation and depicted (though rarely) in its art and script. The domesticated horse is absent from South Asia until the second millennium BCE.

Chindu continues to propagate racist theory

Is it not interesting that all the "eminent historians" who are interviewed by Chindu believe in the Aryan Invasion Theory? Notice the author suggesting the lately popular "Aryan Migration Theory" instead of AIT; anyone opposing this thoery is a fanatic; and ignoring the racial and political motivations for creating the AIT.

The Hindu : Opinion / Interviews : ‘I do not believe in a full decipherment’ of the Indus script

Some Indian scholars claim that the Aryans never came from outside India and that the Indus Civilisation was Vedic. What is your stand on the Aryan-Dravidian debate?



The urban civilisation of the Indus Valley differs greatly from the predominantly nomadic culture described in the early Vedic texts. For one thing, the domestic horse, which occupies an important position in Vedic religion and culture, is not represented among the many animals depicted on Indus seals, nor is there any unambiguous bone evidence for the presence of the horse in South Asian before 2000 BC. The horse is not native to South Asia, and was introduced by outsiders in post-Harappan times.

I have always found it most unfortunate that the past is politicised and used for other than scholarly purposes. As far as the Aryan-Dravidian dichotomy is concerned, it must be remembered that ‘Aryan’ and ‘Dravidian’ are linguistic and not racial terms. There is no pure race, and Aryan and Dravidian speakers have been in contact with each other in South Asia from the start of their encounter. Ever since the Aryan speakers came to India from Central Asia, this militarily powerful minority group would have mixed with the local population. Centuries of gradually increasing bilingualism eventually led to a large-scale language shift, making almost the whole population of North India Indo-Aryan speakers. Linguistic and religious fanatics inflame a wrong sort of nationalism, which has led to great ills both in South Asia and elsewhere. Ancient traditions of language must not be used to divide people.