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HPI
NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 5th, 2011 (HPI report - By Rajiv Malik, Chief
Correspondent, India/South Asia):
"The anthropological research reports have established that DNA dating
for Paleolithic continuity starts from 60,000 BC. The Genome studies during
the Holocene have revealed that the genetic profile of humans settled in
north, south, east and west of India is the same and has remained the same
for the last more than 11,000 years. Therefore, contrary to the popular
belief, the Dravidians as well as north Indians have common ancestors and
both are originals of India." This interesting revelation was made by
Dr. V.R. Rao, Professor of Anthropology, Delhi University while presenting
his paper at the national seminar on"Scientific Dating Of Ancient
Events Before 2000 BC"
The "Seminar on Scientific Dating of Events Before 2000 BCE" was
held on 30th and 31st July, 2011 at the auditorium of Indian Institute of
Mass Communication in New Delhi. The seminar was attended by about 400
people including Sanskrit scholars and astronomers, archaeologists and
geologists, ecologists and anthropologists, oceanographers and space
scientists, bureaucrats and academicians as well as other persons from the
public and media, who took deep interest in the deliberations of this
otherwise highly technical event organized by the Delhi chapter of I-SERVE
[ Institute of Scientific Research on Vedas].
The two main objectives of the seminar were:
One, to highlight the fact that some new scientific inventions and tools
can scientifically determine the authenticity and historicity of ancient
events and as such any reliance on religious beliefs or linguistic
guesswork is superflous. Such scientific dating is not only credible and
convincing but is also likely to push back the antiquity of our
civilisation by 4-5 millenia, giving all Indians a shared pride in our rich
cultural heritage.
The second objective was to integrate the authenticated information
contained in latest research reports of our eminent scientists, available
with the Ministries of Science and Technology and of Earth Sciences, with
the contents of our school and college books to enable the young minds to
appreciate our true history, reconstructed purely on scientific basis.
Former President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam delivered the inaugural
address on 30th July. He endorsed the scientific methods of dating ancient
events and emphasised that a mechanism needs to be built to disseminate the
knowledge and information generated during the seminar with school and
college children to generate a shared pride in our rich and ancient most
heritage.
The highlight of the event was the release of the Seminar Memento, a wall
clock depicting the sky view on 10th January, 5114 BC, date of birth of
Lord Ram based on planetary configuration given in Valmiki Ramayan. The
memento was released by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
Presenting the theme of the national seminar, Ms Saroj Bala, Director,
I-Serve, Delhi Chapter stated, "Till now we have been told that prior
to 1500 BC, India was uncivilized and that the Aryans who came from Central
Asia pushed the uncivilized inhabitants towards the south and were later
known as Dravidians. These invaders were the ones who set up the first
civilized society in North India. Multidisciplinary and purely scientific
research has shown that this premise, which was based on linguistic
guesswork, is not correct."
According to Ms Saroj Bala the key findings of the seminar have the
potential of uniting all Indians and raising their self esteem by giving
them shared pride in their ancient most rich cultural heritage. To
enlighten them based on scientific evidences, that indigenous civilization
have been developing and flourishing in India for last 10,000 years and
that some of our ancestors moved out to civilise others.
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