GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

GK

INDIAN HISTORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who was the first European to designate Aryan as a race?
A
William Jones
B
H.H. Wilson
C
Max Muller
D
General Cuningham
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Max Muller was the first European to designate Aryan as a race.

Detailed explanation-2: -Tibet Home Theory In Satyarth Prakash, Swami Dayanand Saraswati propounded that the original home of the Aryans was Tibet. Logic given was that sun and fire was worshipped in Tibet due to extreme cold; and the flora and fauna mentioned in Rig-Veda were found in Tibet.

Detailed explanation-3: -Based on his analysis of Vedic hymns, Avestic passages, Vedic chronology and Vedic calendars, Tilak argued that the North Pole was the original home of Aryans during the pre-glacial period, which they left due to climate changes around 8000 B.C., migrating to the Northern parts of Europe and Asia.

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