Who is Indigenous to India? New post up on my substack where I discuss how the indigenous label is misused by the media to delegitimize majority groups and has no consistent definition. Give it a read!
indianhistory.substack.com
indianhistory.substack.com
While the Indian government has refused to sign the United Nations C169 - Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169) and therefore doesn’t recognize any official indigenous people, media outlets NGOs and the UN keep calling tribals in India as the “adivasi”
Modern scholarship says both the Aryans and Austroasiatic Tribals came to the subcontinent around the same time. Then how does the Indian media call the Aryans “foreigners” but calls the Austroasiastic tribals as “first inhabitants” of India?
This is because in pop-culture an indigenous tribe has to be a disadvantaged and/or recently colonized minority culture. They are not comfortable using the label indigenous for majority dominant cultures. They only look at power dynamics and then misuse labels.
The conclusion we come to is that the Aryans and the Harappans are both indigenous to India.
If the Maori can be considered indigenous to New Zealand despite coming there in 1200 CE, then why are groups who’ve lived here for 4000+ years not indigenous?
If the Maori can be considered indigenous to New Zealand despite coming there in 1200 CE, then why are groups who’ve lived here for 4000+ years not indigenous?
Most importantly, the Rigvedic Aryans considered themselves indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. Which should be the most important metric. The locus mundi of these people was Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar-Pradesh. This is where they were born, raised and where they died.
@Hieraaetus Whereas in the Western right, obsession with the PIE is an intellectual descendent of Teutonicism. Gobineau, Huxley, Madison Grant, Ripley etc all supported it. Kossina had famously placed the Urheimat in Germany.
@Hieraaetus You had anti-Nordic backlash from Italians like Giuseppe Sergi who claimed the barbaric Aryans came from India and the Romans were Hamitic Semites whose ancestry was diluted by these barbarians.
@vikramaditya60 The UN is so brazen they literally use the dominant-minority culture definition as their criteria of what is indigenous. Seems interesting how people accept all this on face-value
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