INTRODUCTION

The research conducted for this book stems from the lifelong quest of the author to assign correct historical perspective to the rich patrimony of ancient Bharat, now known as India, inspired by the timeless and universal ideal of Aryan self-sacrifice for universal good. Despite their extreme tolerance and exemplary pluralism, the Hindu people were demonized as pagans by the Christians and as kafirs by the Muslims, who were deprived of soul and thus could be enslaved, killed, tortured, mutilated, murdered, raped, sold, and so forth. Bharat of old became the land of untold material and intellectual wealth that could be freely usurped by armed might, deliberate mistranslations, omissions, falsifications, and the like. The Islamized, illiterate, Bedouin Arab nomads from the deserts of Arabia did not even have a script of their own, until they adapted Persian left to right writing in the 7th century CE, yet they passed themselves off as scientists, philosophers, mathematicians, story tellers, artists, architects, and so forth, merely by translating Vedic-Hindu-Buddhist texts from Sanskrit into Persian that were attributed to fake names to emebellish Arabic ancestry. At the end of the dark ages, the Europeans were to translate Arabic literature into Latin because the Bible had kept the Western World in a state of profound intellectual and material barbarism. Consequently, Arabic names were now transformed into Greek-sounding phonetics to claim ancient Hindu patrimony as an accomplishment of the European stock. These translations of the original Vedic patrimony were to jump start Renaissance in Europe that had remained mired in superstition, filth, poverty, disease, hunger, and so forth. The scramble to claim Aryan ancestry, successively, by the Persians, Germans, British, and Americans, attests to its unparalleled brilliance for which other peoples or cultures had no match. More recently, the Communists have created anti-history dubbing Hinduism as a cult, not worthy of accomplishing anything worthwhile. In modern India, the 'true' religions (Islam and Christianity) have joined hands with the atheist Communism for final assault on Hindus and Hinduism whose sacred literature has been consigned to the realm of mythology for final obviation. Consequently, whereas European school books laud a feigned Greek miracle that had been kept alive by Arab translations, school age children in India are conditioned to despise their own past and to look to the West as a source of their culture and civilization. However, Greek intellectual patrimony is limited to the brief period of Athenian Republic that lasted for barely 300 years and was greatly influenced by Bharat. The author has gained extensive theoretical, professional, and practical insight into this problem by actual field work, exhaustive research, regular social networking, and a website: aumco.net, leading to a number of recent books, listed below, and is therefore uniquely suited to provide a correct perspective. Hopefully, the current Asia Century will reinstate the credit where it is due and reverse the trend of imaginary racial superiority of colonial imperialism as also of the stifling legacy of Abrahamic religions.

Agarwal, M. K., From Bharata to India, Vol. 1 Chrysee the Golden, iUniverse, 2012.

Agarwal, M. K., From Bharata to India, Vol. 2 The Rape of Chrysee iUniverse, 2012.

Agarwal, M.K. and Sharma, A.K., The Yoga-Ayurveda Miracle, Dog Ear, 2011.

This book is designed as a source of inform for those who seek truth in place of bias, inquiry in place of dogmatism, wisdom in place of ignorance, self-analysis in place of condemnation, and ideation in place of indoctrination. In contrast to the Sunday school version, you will discover that Jesus spent his formative years in India and is buried in Kashmir. The book challenges feigned, school book anti history by fully documented, factual, accounts in archeology and literature. It describes the Indus Valley Civilization (ISC) dating back to 8000 BC that was to become the fount of discovery in all aspects of human endeavor. Planned Agriculture, domestication of animals, cultivation of cotton for spun garments, food processing from cereals, manufacture of luxury items such as beads, perfumes, silks, gold ornaments, and so forth, were all pioneered by the Indus people that later evolved into Bharat (now India). Bronze Age, Iron age, and pyro technology got started in Bharat whose centers of learning inspired immortal discoveries in Mathematical Sciences, Physics, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, weights and measures, coinage, and so forth. Phonetic linguistics and writing gave birth to Philology whereas secrets behind numbers, such as 7, 8, 33 and 108, led to divination by Numerology. Advances in Architecture inspired the construction of centrally planned urban centers with geometrically designed streets, aligned in cardinal directions, endowed with sanitary drains and waste disposal, thousands of years before they were to appear in Europe. As far back as 3000 BC, Yoga and Ayurveda heralded discoveries in Biological and Medical Sciences that were to form the mother of healing in all medical traditions of the world. In fine arts, three dimensional painting, plastic representation of human figures, poetry, drama, fairy tales, fables, theater, musical octave, dance, martial arts, arena sports, dice and board games such as chess, ludo and backgammon, playing cards, and so forth, all originated in ancient Bharat of old. Advances in maritime technology permitted global conquest of Polynesia, SE Asia and Oceania, Africa and the Americas, as well as unrestricted commerce. Symbolism of the Vedic world became universal in the form of Calendar, Rosary, Swastika, Trident, Sun, Fire, Phallus and Serpent Worship. Europe finally came of age through Vedic influence in Greece, Roma People (Gypsies), Vedic Celts and large scale import of concepts developed in Bharat. No force or slavery was ever used to making ISC the world's most prosperous, scientifically, and culturally advanced civilization whose hegemony was to remain unchallenged from 3000 BC down to the 10th century CE. Similarly, the diffusion of Bharat hegemony was inspired by the spirit of universal peace, good and brotherhood for all humanity. All dogmatic religions are also deeply rooted...