INDIAN HISTORY

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Who of the following propounded the theory of the Arctic region as the home land of the Aryan speaking people?
A
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
B
Edward Meyer
C
Max Muller
D
Herzefeld
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: -It propounded the theory that North Pole was the original home of Aryans during pre-glacial period which they had to leave due to the ice deluge around 8000 B.C. and had to migrate to the Northern parts of Europe and Asia in search of lands for new settlements.

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: -Indigenous Aryanism, also known as the Indigenous Aryans theory (IAT) and the Out of India theory (OIT), is the conviction that the Aryans are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent, and that the Indo-European languages radiated out from a homeland in India into their present locations.

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