Abhijit Chavda

Abhijit Chavda
Born	Abhijit Chavda (1976-11-06)November 6, 1976 Ahmedabad, India.
🎓 Alma mater	Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Laxmi Chand Institute of Technology
💼 Occupation	Theoretical Physicist Polymath YouTuber
📆 Years active	2017–Present

Abhijit Chavda (born 6 November 1976) is an Indian theoretical physicist, and Polymath known for his YouTube show 'AskAbhijit'. His work in physics involves research on astronomy, astrology etc. He has published and co-publish research papers on these topics. Not only is he a scientist, he is also a Polymath having a range of interests in History, Geopolitics, Politics, Science-Fiction etc. He wrote articles for several publications including the IndiaFacts, Indic Today etc.

Abhijit was known by his work on 'Why Genghis Khan refuse to invade India', as well as Indian history. He is currently a supporter of the Indigenous Aryans theory, after his research on this issue about Indo-Aryan migrations. He was well received by the media, despite some attempts to criticise him.

Career

Abhijit Chavda currently published works on theoretical physics, such as dark matter and quantum theory.. However, he was mostly known as a history enthusiast, who studied many worlds of history, including Roman, and Egyptian history. He never had interest in Indian history throughout his early years. Chavda became famous after his collaborations, with Ranveer Allahbadia, as we as his YouTube show called 'AskAbhijit' even though his channel name is 'Abhijit Chavda'. In his show, he hosts it live, answering questions from comments, and live chats, as well as video chats. His episodes are usually 1 hour long, and has done more than +100 episodes. He covers topics, like history, geopolitics, science-fiction, etc.

Aryan Invasion Theory

In one of his episodes, he does a Q and A episode on Indo-Aryan migrations, where he said that he used to believe in the Aryan Invasion Theory until 2016. However after looking at actual evidences of an invasion or a migration, he concluded that evidence of migrations into India is non-existent, especially migration of Indo-Aryan languages, he concluded that Sanskrit is native to India, and that instead of a migrating into India, Indo-European languages migrated out of India, which is also known as the Indigenous Aryans theory, despite that this theory is not supported in mainstream scholarship.

Analysis

Outside his YouTube Channel, Abhijit Chavda did a presentation on the Aryan Migration Theory. He first starts of with Indian's education system that India had its indigenous education system, as well as universities in Nalanda, and Taxila. According to him, the universities containing libraries were destroyed by Muslim invaders. The libraries stored information on India's traditional history, which were burnt down. As a result, Indians had to transmit history orally, because their written history got erased. The British declared India's oral history to be mythical and unreliable, which ultimately became the genesis of distorting Indian history, as well as beginning Indo-European philology.

He summarised the Aryan Invasion Theory as the original inhabitants where dark-skinned Dravidians, who built a peaceful Indus Valley Civilisation. Then the nomadic light-skinned Aryans came into India, invaded and destroyed the civilisation. They brought Vedic Sanskrit, and Hinduism commonly known today. They composed the Vedas at about 1200 BCE, and imposed Hinduism to the Dravidians and other aborigines. The homeland of the Aryans was ultimately the Pontic-Caspian steppe of Southern Russia. Which was the academically accepted homeland of Indo-Europeans, which still stands today.

He mentioned Max Muller, who divided the Aryan race into Western Aryan race, and the Eastern Aryan Race and Robert Caldwell who divided Indians intro Dravidians and Aryans. Chavda says that there is currently no evidence of any destruction in the Indus Valley, and no evidence of proper massacres, or ash, which meant that the invasion became a migration, which is still the prevalent term used today. However he said that there was no evidence of a migration either, as archeological records lack evidence of a foreign migration into India, and that most Indians are genetically alike, and have no significant genetic differences. This meant that there were multiple waves of Aryan migrations, and miraculously brought Sanskrit and Vedic culture into India, and miraculously subjugated the Dravidians into the south. Every time this theory is debunked, people tried to modify the theory, however keeping one thing in common, that Hinduism and Sanskrit are foreign to India.

He started to analyse the evidence that Aryans were indigenous to India. Starting off with Bhirrana the oldest town in the Indus Valley, being 9500 years old. He investigated that Vedic culture was present in the Indus Valley. Not only the Swastika, but also yogic poses, doing a namaste position, as well as Shiva lingas. Sindoor use of an Indus Valley statuette of a woman. John Marshall (archaeologist) who excavated the Indus Valley Civilisation said that the religion was so Indian, that it's hardly distinguishable from present-day hinduism. All of this falsifies the claim that Hinduism is foreign to India.

He said that the Rigveda lacks evidence or hint of any foreign homeland outside India, and that the Rigveda lacks urbanism and a destruction of an urban civilisation, indicating that the composers were native to India, and according to him had a sentimental attachment to the homeland. He has mentioned the Battle of the Ten Kings, and clans who were defeated fled northwards and westwards, this is evident in the Baudhayana Shrauta Sutra vedic text 18:44. He stated that Michael Witzel and Romila Thapar have mistranslated the text, meaning that the clans migrated eastward, but this claim was debunked.

Criticism

David Miano, a history lecturer from UC San Diego, attempted to criticise Abhijit Chavda on Indo-Aryan Migrations, in his video on when did Sanskrit enter India, based on genetic evidence. . Abhijit Chavda heard of it, even though he didn't watch the video, but is yet to respond. He claims that the premise of the video is 'ridiculous' and 'baseless' as there is no linkage between genetics and language.

References

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