Who are the Indians? | Dr. Raj Vedam | JNU |

"Who are the Indians?" This seemingly rhetorical question is the root of a century old schism in super-heated debates on the Indian identity. In this talk, Dr. Raj Vedam marshals evidence from multiple disciplines to bear on the issue.

About the Speaker:
Dr. Raj Vedam obtained his Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, and Ph.D. also in Electrical Engineering from Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA. He has over 26 years of professional experience in Power, Electronic Design Automation, and Oil and Gas industries and has worked in applied mathematics and engineering across multiple disciplines. He has several patents and international journal and conference publications. Working at the confluence of applied mathematics, engineering, algorithms, and computer science, and using tools of Archeo-Genetics, Archeo-astronomy, Archaeology, and pursuing evidence of knowledge transfers from ancient India, Dr. Raj Vedam has put forward a strong thesis with verifiable facts, on the antiquity of the Indian Civilization, and the many discoveries made in ancient India. He has delivered over 100 lectures in India and the US, on the subject of scientific validation of narratives on history of India, in which he has developed a deep interest. He has conducted a dozen high school teacher training workshops in India on a multi-disciplinary approach to history. He has also revised history textbooks for Texas Education Agency, as well as the state of Telangana. Raj Vedam serves as Director, Arsha Vidya Satsanga, a non-profit focused on Indic education based in Houston.

Sub-Topics:
0:00 Introduction by by Prof Girish Nath Jha (JNU)
1:03 Dr. Raj Vedam Introducing the topic
1:30 India was populated from the South : Bhagvata Purana/Puranic Geneology
3:18 Pan Indian Regional Calendars: Remnants of the Lunar/Solar Dynasty
4:24 India as mentioned in the Puranas and Itihaasas
4:53 RigVeda's Battle of Ten Kings which established the Bharata rule
5:44 Purana Chronology
7:06 Aryan Invasion/Migration Theory and Structural Problems in Indian History
14:07 Colonial & Missionary Frameworks: Religious & Racial Bigotry plus Hatred resulted in Hinduphobic Works
16:55 Max Mueller's Motivations
18:00 Eurocentrism, Linguistics and and Toxic etic academia in the mix
19:53 Linguistic frameworks
21:22 Reconstructed and Hypothesized PIE/Proto-Indian-European Language
23:52 Eurocentric (German) Aryanism
26:26 Steppe Hypothesis Vs Anatolian Hypothesis of Indo-European language expansion
29:17 Socialist and Marxist Ideologies destroy identity and history
30:26 Nehruvian Socialism
32:35 Impacts of the spurious AIT
33:54 Rebuttal to wrong historiography of India
36:07 Deconstruction of the Linguistic argument by Shrikant Talageri & Nicholas Kazanas
37:29 Harappan Archaeology: Spurious Invasion
39:40 Michel Danino on AIT
40:14 River Saraswati and AIT
42:53 Cultural Continuity of the Indian Civilization with no Periodization
44:15 AIT and Iron Age
46:08 Natural Disasters and Out of India Migration
51:05 Invalidation of the claim that agriculture was invented in Turkey and came to India later
52:15 Antiquity of the Indian People
57:45 Genetic composition of Indians
1:02:58 Antiquity of India via Indian Astronomy
1:04:43 Indian astronomy: Nakshatras and Rashis
1:07:58 Antiquity of the Vedanga Jyotisha
1:09:09 Antiquity as per Satapatha Brahmana: Yajnavalkya
1:10:15 Dating of the Epoch of Kali Yuga
1:11:27 Aditi and the Ashvinis
1:13:45 Antiquity of the Surya Siddhanta
1:18:54 Rebutting AIT and Max Mueller with Astronomy Chronology
1:21:44 Received Wisdom Vs Facts
1:26:19 Closing Remarks by Prof Pranav Kumar (JNU)

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