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Introduction
The 'Scythic Origin of the Rajput Race' proves once and for all that the
modern-day Rajputs, Jats, Thakurs, Gujjars and Gujaratis are not Vedic
Aryans but instead the descendants of Scythic immigrants. The Brahmins,
Vedic vidyalayas and Hindutva universities generally dogmatically insist
that the
Rajputs are "Vedic Aryan Kshatriyas". These theories are based on the
Puranas and are thus more than a thousand years old. Since the early
1800's a small group
of dedicated Indologists have held that these Puranic theories were wrong,
and that
instead of being Vedic Aryans, these Rajputs were descended from Sakas and
related peoples who immigrated into India in the centuries around the
birth of Christ. These Indologists were ignored or condemned, and are
often called `anti-Brahmin' or `anti-Hindu'.
At best, the Hindutvadins claim that only a small number of Sakas entered
India, and that the bulk of the genetic contribution to the modern Rajput
has come from the Aryan, with the subsequent Scythics being "submerged in
the sea of Aryan genes".
Now, after many years of research, a well-known Rajput author, Mulchand
Chauhan, has published a ground-breaking book entitled
` The Scythic Origin of the Rajput Race' in which he proves the
true racial origin of the Rajput race. It cannot be stressed how
absolutely essential it is for all to consider the startling evidence that
today's Rajputs are not Aryans. Moreover, he has kept the book short and
readable, rather than dwelling at length on the cumulative evidence.
His book demolishes once and for all the myth that the Rajputs are Vedic
Kshatriyas, and destroys the very basis of the Brahminist-Aryan theory
that all `Hindus' are Vedic Aryans.
Directly from this follows another two-nation theory: namely, that the
Sakas have lived in their own Sakasthan, historically centered on the
Rajputana-Gujarat region, culturally, racially and linguistically distinct
from the Aryan-Vaishnava regions centered on Maharashtra.