Rig Veda talks about Saraswati River which dried up in ~2500- 3500 BC, puts Rig Veda more than 6000 years back.
Isolated references are not sufficient to analyze the age of the Veda. The above claim disagrees with other forms of evidence obtained by philology, archaeology, etc. Also, if the evidence is so compelling, why has the the academic date of the Rig Veda not been revised till now? I hope you will not fall back on conspiracy theories.
Mueller intent was not purely clean in translating the VEDAS. When the foundation of thoughts was at fault, how can you use their corrupt translations. They came up with a myth called Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT) so that Hindus living in India start considering them outsiders and barbaric hordes. They just did not want anything valuable to be indigenous to India and wanted themselves to be considered more supreme.
Lots of problems here.
1. How do you know Mueller's intent? Please do not post internet copies of "letters" allegedly written by Mueller.
2. Aryan Invasion theory was not a myth. Sufficient justification was provided for that claim such as abrupt abandonment of cities, etc. Your position is insulting to academia to think they would allow baseless theories to prevail for 200 years. If you have evidence that the theory was pulled out of someone's hat with no logical basis, please demonstrate.
3. I fail to see how AIT makes Indians think they are outsiders and barbaric hordes? You are contradicting yourself by saying the Aryans were barbarians and yet they produced something valuable. Again, if you have evidence that there was such an intent behind the Aryan theory, please produce it.
Science says man originated in Africa and spread to the rest of the world. Does that make people in other continents feel like outsiders or somehow lesser than Africans?
AIT was a racist and political propaganda started by European scholars and Christian missionaries like Max Mueller and others. It was based on invalid reasoning with no evidence to support it. AND, the recent evidence suggests that there was no Aryan race and the Rig Veda is indigenous to India based on archaeological evidence, textual evidence, and astronomical dating of Vedas.
Please produce evidence. FYI, books written by nationalist Hindus like Rajaram (an engineer), Talageri (an electrician), Frawley (Chinese medicine expert) et al., does not become evidence. If you have something concrete to backup these allegations, I will be happy to hear them. Else, this just becomes more nationalistic propoganda with no factual basis - driven mostly be emotions - that can be found abundantly on the internet.
