Aryans without caste - 7

......The great Harappan urban civilization had already declined before Rig Vedic people entered India. In its glorious days it was two steps ahead of nomadic Rig Vedic Aryan civilization. Earlier, the Harappan civilization had already passed the nomadic and agricultural stages and established itself at the next higher stage of civilization – the urban civilization. The Aryans had not even come up to the next higher level of agriculture which is clear from absence of agricultural word from their vocabulary. The next step of developing urban centers was far ahead; they were backward in this sense. In terms of civilization the Aryans were inferior people. They did not even know agriculture which they had to borrow from the natives of India.

These backward tribal Aryans were destined to move from lower level of nomadic level to higher level of city culture but before that they had to take up agriculture and start living a settled village life. The nomadic life is normally characterized by absence of food surplus. These shifting pastoral tribes, with small populations, were not capable of forming kingdoms. At most they could plunder other Aryan tribes and communities of native people. The early nomadic Aryan tribes did not live in settled villages. They constantly moved from one place to another along with their cattle and horses in search of greener pastures or to avoid the attackers. Ultimately they took up the higher level of agriculture and then city culture but in the process they classified certain people (Shudras) as inherently impure and some as inherent polluted (Antyajas) – it was indeed a great achievement with an obsessive insistence on purity, supremacy and sacredness of Vedas. As we will see that for the purpose of giving divine authentication to their Varna system they rigged the most ancient and sacred of scriptures – the Rig Veda....