How 19th-century German Romanticism, Christian missionary funding, and British colonial politics manufactured the Aryan Invasion Theory — and how modern archaeology, paleo-hydrology of the Sarasvati river, and ancient DNA research have unsettled almost every claim it made. A primary-source examination of why Indology needs decolonizing.

Reclaiming Bharatiya Vidya: Decolonizing Indian Knowledge System Series For three centuries, the story of India has been told mainly by people who did not believe it. British administrators wrote it to justify governance. German Indologists wrote it to slot it into Aryan migration theories that suited 19th-century European race-thinking. Marxist Indian historians of the post-Independence decades wrote it to fit a class-conflict template borrowed from European industrial histo