India's RSS urges war against 'evil' of casteism

"About 1500BC, powerful nomadic warriors known as Aryans appeared in northern India. The warriors were from Central Asia, but managed to overcome the Himalayas by finding lower passes in the mountains, such as the Khyber Pass in Pakistan. The Aryans conquered the Dravidians of Central India and imposed their social structure upon them. "

Firstly.......there was never any "Aryan invasion".

The Vedas that chronicled every aspect of the lives of early Hindus nowhere had any mention of an "invasion". None of the archaeological evidences available indicate the possibility of an "invasion". This is because the "invasion theory" was popularised by the so-called "British Indologists" and thereafter picked up by Nazi propaganda. The "invasion theory " was propounded and popularised to show the Hindu civilisation as being more recent then what is actually is and that the Hindu civilisation was created/influenced by white skinned European "Aryans".

The Aryan migration if any happened from India and not to India. Another thing ....Sanskrit is the mother of all European languages and not the other way round.

"The Aryans divided their society into separate castes. Castes were unchanging groups. A person born into one caste never changed castes or mixed with members of other castes. Caste members lived, ate, married, and worked with their own group.

Wrong. The "varna-varga" system which we today know as "cast" was based on an individual's profession and it was not rigid (although later on it turned so). One could easily switch between "casts" and an individual's cast was not accorded at birth, one had to earn his "cast".

"At the top of the caste system were the Brahmin – the priests, teachers, and judges. Next came the Kshatriya (KUH SHAT REE YUHZ), the warrior caste. The Vaisya caste (VEEZ YUHZ) were the farmers and merchants, and the Sudras, were craftworkers and laborers.

Kshatriya - actully pronounced as (SHAT REE YA)

Vaisya - actully pronounced as (Va ish Ya)

The rest of whatever you write is pure British propaganda :

"The untouchables were the outcastes, or people beyond the caste system. Their jobs or habits involved “polluting activities” including:

• Any job that involved ending a life, such as fishing.

• Killing or disposing of dead cattle or working with their hides.

• Any contact with human emissions such as sweat, urine, or feces. This included occupational groups such as sweepers and washermen.

• People who ate meat. This category included most of the primitive Indian hill tribes.

This is surprise and I never thought this would happen.

It's probably self-interest. Caste-based politics has led to a proliferation of parties for "lower" castes, and they are increasingly important in Indian politics. These groups have also benefited immensely at the expense of many "higher" castes from the Indian affirmative action system (which they call "reservations"), which is far more important and intrusive than in the US. Groups like the RSS will lose if Indian politics becomes more and more based on these traditional social divisions.

The sources I've read declare that Buddhism (or its precedent) is the indigenous religion of the Harappa Civilization, the oldest known civilization in India. Harappa Civilization's artifacts, and its now indecipherable script, predate Sanskrit (and hence the Vedas), and some of those artifacts clearly demonstrate people in meditation positions practicing meditation. Buddha himself stated that he was simply redeveloping an ancient practice (a pre-Vedic practice, given that Harappa script is pre-sanscrit, and as you stated, I believe, that the Vedas describe Hindu history, but don't refer to Harrapa Civilization)
Perhaps it is a little bit of propaganda to say that reincarnation, karma, etc. was originally Hindu, when it may in fact have been Buddhist/pre-Buddhist-Harappa, then absorbed into Sanskrit reading Hinduism at a later date.

From what I've read the Hindus at Buddha's time were interested primarily in pantheons and ritualistic sacrifice, the later often being compared as less effective than the Buddha's living, analysis-driven doctrine, implying Buddhist rationality was something new to Hinduism.

I don't know if there was an invasion or not, but if not, then how was the Harappa Civilization displaced by the Sanskrit reading population?

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