INDIAN HISTORY

HISTORY

ANCIENT INDIA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who among the following had popularized the theory of the Arctic region as the original home of the Aryans?
A
BG Tilak
B
Max Muller
C
GK Gokhale
D
Dr S Radhakrishnan
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -the Independence activist Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, propounded the idea that the North pole was the original home of the Aryans. In 1903, a book named “ The Arctic Home in the Vedas” written by Bal Gangadhar Tilak on the origins of the Aryan people .

Detailed explanation-2: -The Arctic Home in the Vedas is a 1903 pseudohistorical book on the origin of the Indo-Aryan peoples by Indian nationalist, teacher and independence activist Bal Gangadhar Tilak.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Central Asia as Aryan’s original home Based on the similarities in the Vedas and Avesta (Iranian text), scholar Max Muller considered Central Asia as the original home of Aryans. As per this theory, Aryans originally lived in Central Asia.

Detailed explanation-5: -Indian homeland and Aryan Invasion theory In the 1850s, Max Müller introduced the notion of two Aryan races, a western and an eastern one, which migrated from the Caucasus into Europe and India respectively.

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