Education System in India - A cause for under-development

The report states that, some heuristic interpretations of the ancestry proportions palette in terms of past migrations seem too obvious to be ignored. For example, it was first suggested by the German Orientalist Max M�ller that ca. 3,500 years ago a dramatic migration of Indo-European speakers from Central Asia (the putative Indo Aryan migration) played a key role in shaping contemporary South Asian populations and was responsible for the introduction of the Indo-European language family and the caste system in India. Thus, the report totally denies most sham Aryan Invasion Theory which was advocated by the British rulers, Christian Missionaries and contemporary South Indian Political parties and ideologues.

However, the research has identified a cline of Indian populations toward Europe with no corresponding cline within the Europeans.

The alleged propaganda of ‘Aryan Invasion and Conflict of Aryans with Dravidians’ is widely used in India as a tool to divide the Indian Society for years. Michel Danino, in his ‘The Invasion That Never Was’ has already stated that “Since the nineteenth century, India’s ancient history from Vedic times and the true content of the Veda have both been distorted by a blinkered and unsympathetic scholarship. British rulers, European scholars and missionaries combined in a campaign to disparage the roots of Indian civilization, and used the wholly groundless Aryan Invasion theory to sow seeds of division in the Indian society – “divide and rule,” But also “divide and convert.” The same fallacies continue to be promoted today.”

Danino further comments that, unfortunately, many of the wounds the Aryan invasion theory inflicted on Indian society are still painfully open today, nurtured as they have been by missionaries, Marxist historians and politicians, who together have made sure that divisions between castes have been sharpening rather than subsiding – for the simple reason that without such divisions they would all be out of business.

The fresh research has played a great role which examines the birth of the Arya-Dravid myth and its misuses. The American Society of Human Genetics with the help of cellular molecular biology has thrown fresh look at the ‘Invasion theory’ in the light of its recent scientific evidence and showed how it now stands overwhelmingly disproved.

Courtesy: ibtl – http://www.ibtl.in/news/exclusive/1625/aryan-invasion-theory-used-for-divide-and-convert-:-exposed-by-fresh-genetic-research

According to Dr Gyaneshwer Chaubey, Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia, who was another Indian member of the team, the leaders of Dravidian political parties may have to find another answer for their raison d’�tre. “We have proved that people all over India have common genetic traits and origin. All Indians have the same DNA structure. No foreign genes or DNA has entered the Indian mainstream in the last 60,000 years,” Dr Chaubey said.

Dr Chaubey had proved in 2009 itself that the Aryan invasion theory is garbage. “That was based on low resolution genetic markers. This time we have used autosomes, which mean all major 23 chromosomes, for our studies. The decoding of human genome and other advances in this area help us in unraveling the ancestry in 60,000 years,” he explained.

“We have to find out the credentials of the authors of this research paper and their hidden agenda. In Tamil Nadu, the Dravidian and Aryan ties are inter-related. The Dalits in our land are the descendents of the Dravidian Brahmins who were pushed to the lowest strata of society by the Aryans,” claimed Shankaran.

According to Prof Singh, Dr Chaubey, and Dr Kumarasamy Thangaraj, another member of the team, the findings disprove the caste theory prevailing in India. Interestingly, the team found that instead of Aryan invasion, it was Indians who moved from the subcontinent to Europe. “That’s the reason behind the findings of the same genetic traits in Eurasiain regions,” said Dr Thangaraj, senior scientist, CCMB.

“Africans came to India through Central Asia during 80,000 to 60,000 BCE and they moved to Europe sometime around 30,000 BCE.

The Indian Vedic literature and the epics are all silent about the Aryan-Dravidian conflict,” said Dr S Kalyanaraman, a proponent of the Saraswati civilization which developed along the banks of the now invisible River Saraswati.

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“Cellular Molecular Biology research debunks Aryan Invasion theory”

An inter-continental research in cellular molecular biology has debunked the Aryan invasion theory. This is a major setback to the advocates of the ‘Aryan Invasion’ theory and the elements who used and using the propaganda of Aryan-Dravidian conflict for the division through confusion in the Indian social psyche.

The so called Aryan Dravidian Theory which used for ‘Divide and Convert’ policy has been exposed by this fresh Genetic research conducted by the The American Society of Human Genetics.

The research, ‘Shared and Unique Components of Human Population Structure and Genome-Wide Signals of Positive Selection in South Asia’ is conducted by a team of 15 scientists which includes four Indian scientists. The findings of a three-year has been published by American Journal of Human Genetics in its issue dated December 9.

Research Team member Prof Lalji Singh, vice-chancellor, Banaras Hindu University, has commented that the research has conclusively proved that there never existed any Aryans or Dravidians in the Indian sub continent. The Aryan-Dravidian classification was nothing but a misinformation campaign carried out by people with vested interests.

The study effectively puts to rest the argument that south Indians are Dravidians and were driven to the peninsula by Aryans who invaded North India,” said Prof Singh, a molecular biologist and former chief of Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad.

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Migratory route of Africans

Between 135,000 and 75,000 years ago, the East-African droughts shrunk the water volume of the lake Malawi by at least 95%, causing migration out of Africa. Which route did they take? Researchers say their study of the tribes of Andaman and Nicobar islands using complete mitochondrial DNA sequences and its comparison those of world populations has led to the theory of a “southern coastal route” of migration from East Africa through India.

This finding is against the prevailing view of a northern route of migration via Middle East, Europe, south-east Asia, Australia and then to India.

HYDERABAD: The great Indian divide along north-south lines now stands blurred. A pathbreaking study by Harvard and indigenous researchers on ancestral Indian populations says there is a genetic relationship
between all Indians and more importantly, the hitherto believed “fact” that Aryans and Dravidians signify the ancestry of north and south Indians might after all, be a myth.

“This paper rewrites history… there is no north-south divide,” Lalji Singh, former director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) and a co-author of the study, said at a press conference here on
Thursday.

Senior CCMB scientist Kumarasamy Thangarajan said there was no truth to the Aryan-Dravidian theory as they came hundreds or thousands of years after the ancestral north and south Indians had settled in India.

The study analysed 500,000 genetic markers across the genomes of 132 individuals from 25 diverse groups from 13 states. All the individuals were from six-language families and traditionally “upper” and
“lower” castes and tribal groups. “The genetics proves that castes grew directly out of tribe-like organizations during the formation of the Indian society,” the study said. Thangarajan noted that it was
impossible to distinguish between castes and tribes since their genetics proved they were not systematically different.

The study was conducted by CCMB scientists in collaboration with researchers at Harvard Medical School,
Harvard School of Public Health and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. It reveals that the present-day Indian population is a mix of ancient north and south bearing the genomic contributions from two
distinct ancestral populations – the Ancestral North Indian (ANI) and the Ancestral South Indian (ASI).

“The initial settlement took place 65,000 years ago in the Andamans and in ancient south India around the same time, which led to population growth in this part,” said Thangarajan. He added, “At a later stage,
40,000 years ago, the ancient north Indians emerged which in turn led to rise in numbers here. But at some point of time, the ancient north and the ancient south mixed, giving birth to a different set of population.
And that is the population which exists now and there is a genetic relationship between the population within India.”

The study also helps understand why the incidence of genetic diseases among Indians is different from the rest of the world. Singh said that 70% of Indians were burdened with genetic disorders and the study could
help answer why certain conditions restricted themselves to one population. For instance, breast cancer among Parsi women, motor neuron diseases among residents of Tirupati and Chittoor, or sickle cell
anaemia among certain tribes in central India and the North-East can now be understood better, said researchers.

The researchers, who are now keen on exploring whether Eurasians descended from ANI, find in their study that ANIs are related to western Eurasians, while the ASIs do not share any similarity with any other
population across the world. However, researchers said there was no scientific proof of whether Indians went to Europe first or the other way round.

The theory was not just wrong, some say, but included unacceptably racist ideas:

• it suggested that Indian culture was not a culture in its own right, but a synthesis of elements from other cultures
• it implied that Hinduism was not an authentically Indian religion but the result of cultural imperialism
• it suggested that Indian culture was static, and only changed under outside influences
• it suggested that the dark-skinned Dravidian people of the South of India had got their faith from light-skinned Aryan invaders
• it implied that indigenous people were incapable of creatively developing their faith
• it suggested that indigenous peoples could only acquire new religious and cultural ideas from other races, by invasion or other processes
• it accepted that race was a biologically based concept (rather than, at least in part, a social construct) that provided a sensible way of ranking people in a hierarchy, which provided a partial basis for the caste system
• it provided a basis for racism in the Imperial context by suggesting that the peoples of Northern India were descended from invaders from Europe and so racially closer to the British Raj
• it gave a historical precedent to justify the role and status of the British Raj, who could argue that they were transforming India for the better in the same way that the Aryans had done thousands of years earlier
• it downgraded the intellectual status of India and its people by giving a falsely late date to elements of Indian science and culture

More evidence

Aryan-Dravidian divide a myth: Study
25 September 2009
THE TIMES OF INDIA
http://timesofindia .indiatimes. com/news/ india/Aryan- Dravidian- divide-a- myth-Study/ articleshow/ 5053274.cms

The case against the Aryan invasion theory

The Aryan invasion theory was based on archaeological, linguistic and ethnological evidence.

Later research, it is argued, has either discredited this evidence, or provided new evidence that combined with the earlier evidence makes other explanations more likely.

Some historians of the area no longer believe that such invasions had such great influence on Indian history. It’s now generally accepted that Indian history shows a continuity of progress from the earliest times to today.

The changes brought to India by other cultures are not denied by modern historians, but they are no longer thought to be a major ingredient in the development of Hinduism.

Dangers of the theory

Opponents of the Aryan invasion theory claim that it denies the Indian origin of India’s predominant culture, and gives the credit for Indian culture to invaders from elsewhere.

They say that it even teaches that some of the most revered books of Hindu scripture are not actually Indian, and it devalues India’s culture by portraying it as less ancient than it actually is.

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One of the most controversial ideas about Hindu history is the Aryan invasion theory. This theory, originally devised by F. Max Muller in 1848, traces the history of Hinduism to the invasion of India’s indigenous people by lighter skinned Aryans around 1500 BCE. The theory was reinforced by other research over the next 120 years, and became the accepted history of Hinduism, not only in the West but in India. But many people argue that there is now evidence to show that Muller, and those who followed him, were wrong. Others, however, believe that the case against the Aryan invation theory is far from conclusive. The matter remains very controversial and highly politicised. The article below sets out the case made by those who believe that the Aryan invasion theory is seriously flawed.

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BBC Accepts that the Aryan Invasion theory is flawed Posted on January 21, 2008 by arisebharat This is a very important article which calls the cloak off the most damaging theory concocted by the British and served to Indians. Most of the apparent differences that are seen in Indian society like the North-South Divide, Upper caste – Lower caste divides, language problems, can be related to the Aryan-Dravidian theory. I believe that this theory to be the most successful chapter of the British ‘Divide and Rule” policy. They employed Muller as part of Macaulay’s grand scheme to devalue Indian history. So much so, that today we have large sections of “educated Indians” who undermine their own heritage and consider that the British rule as a great chapter in India’s history.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/history/history_4.shtml

yes,

i truely disagree with your statement that education system is well defined and proper in India.

How can you consider it as the best without analysing it in deapth?

The education system plays an important role in developing a child's mental level of thinking, & one can truely recognize that today where the general thinking of an indian exist. Today an Indian only thinks of him him and only him, nothing else worries him more than his own self. Where do you think that a general indian going now a days, i mean what is his actual motive of living a life, to earn more and more coins and die one day having a number of problems revoluting around his head. today a general student give more importance to his marks rather than the actual knowledge or an intrest towards learning.

No matter wheather he develops his mental level, the more emphasis in our education syatem is given to his cramming power and nothing else.
 If a student can cram a thing very easily, he will always clear this education system. No matter wheather he is capable of understanding a concept or not, the thing which matters is just the capability of cramming. and Nothing else.

is this the way you define our education system to be best.......

Are these the reasons to refer it to be best?

A lot is to be explained to you in this topic.

If your opinion about our education system is that, then it truely needs to be changed.

but ms. ravali the brain drain from India is because of the lack of employment opportunities. And all these fields are complementary to our Educational System. When we speak about the educational system it does not mean just the "teaching and learning" process. It is a much broader concept. It even includes practical teaching, placements, job opportunities,etc. So in order to culminate the brain drain process we not only need to strengthen our educational system but also need to make all the necessary ammendments in the complementing fields

I think there is no problem related to the system of education in india, according to me most of the people of our country migrate to different countries after getting education for work and then use their skill for those countries. this is the most affective reasion by which india is stll under developed. 

specially infrastructure & remove the cruption  from thecountry

How sad, people are discussing about education system, educational methods and so on....Let it reach the aam admi..What can we do to improve literacy and make it a 100% literate country by 2020. Let's have a vision/goal and work towards it..Force the Goverment to do it...Let us raise our voice...

There is a feeling in India that Indian education system is the best education system - better than US and other countries.  I had a chance to go through the American curriculum and their books and compared them with the books for the same level in India.  What I found is that the American books are oriented more towards practicals rather than our books which are mainly theoretical.  The children studying American curriculum learn by doing while the  children following our CBSE learn by commiting them to memory.  No prizes for guessing which is better .

If our education system is indeed good, why are so many persons going abroad to pursue their higher education?

We don't have effective education system,that will train a person for living in a good peaceful condition.

Most of the unrest and disharmony

happening every where, may it be

of social, political, various disruptions

caused by actions and counter actions

of different ethnic groups and communities turning into

religious and regionistic extremism, are due to the shift

 in the focus of life among the mass especially the

village youth, due to desperation fermenting of the

prevailing situation that deprive them options and

opportunities to grow up and lead a normal life.

The framework of 'Education' should be such to address

the above issues. Definitely, there is much to be desired

in the current Indian education system. 

Those who have time, please read my article "The bitter pills

for India reprieve" in 'Social and community affairs' community.

If one observes the children going to school with large burdensome bags on their backs one wonders whether the children are given education or they are being trained to carry weights.  The bag consists of all text books, homework books, classwork books, slip test books so on and so forth.  Most of what is taught is not useful in the practical world. One finds most of the youngsters committing suicide for failing in a subject or two, that means our education system is not teaching the children how to face the problems, solve them or attempt to solve them or overcome them and proceed further in life. one exam result ends the life of the youngster it is so bad, the blame is on the education system and also on the parents who might have scored average marks in their studies but expect their child or ward to top the class.  The education system needs overhaul and also there should be some counselling for the parents too.

yes changes should be done in the positive way

" Education In India Needs To Be More Skill - Oriented – Both  In Terms Of Life-Skills As Well As Livelihood Skills”.

Our Education system has to be changed equally with growing industries and market. It should be more practical oriented giving them real exposure. 

As the education is not limited to only study in classrooms, our education system is proved failed at educating people of villages and to some extents cities to raise their thinking level.we need some changes to educate these peoples to gift teens/next generation a happy life.

Kindly find an analysis of the Education sector in the attached link

http://www.scribd.com/doc/32214971/An-Essay-on-Education-Retooling-of-Education-System-in-India

Kindly find a detailed analysis on Education sector in the report for which link is attached.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/32214971/An-Essay-on-Education-Retooling-of-Education-System-in-India

There is a theory in Eveloutionary Psychology called Hamiltonian theory where it says that if 'r' is the relatedness of a person to fellow human being, for example your syblings will have an r of 1 with you carrying similar genes, cousins 1/2 and second cousins 1/4th. Let 'b' represent the benifit to your fellow human from your empathy and 'c' the cost of your empathy. Then if c is less than 'r times b' you will be will be willing to help your fellow human being. So if you see your healthy brother drowning at your peril you will try to rescue him of the situation because you have a need to spread your genes to posterior generations and this through your brother. This is the 'natural selection' route.

In India with a class based society and the poor people being low castes with no political power, and the political elites helping them out incurs costs higher thand 'br' of theirs and they don't do anything much to improve the situation.

So nothing worthwhile can be expected in the near future.

education system in india is very good .,but it gone only a part of people in india , it should spread each and every village ,town,etc.. most of the student dropout from their school studies ,, so we should make some awareness to every people,,DEVELOP INDIA,,JAI HIND

We urgently need changes as present system is too theoretical and does not appreciate ongoing business/industry feeds.

India fails to recognise and learn about the benefits of education. for building developed society two things are importannt

• Education
• Health facilities
• But both the things are neglected in our country. Govt. spends only 3% of its GDP on education which is insufficient. Countries like- USA, Germany spend 1/2 and 3/4 of govt. expenditure on health services and education.

HI DIPTI.

THE PRESENT DAY EDUCATION SYSTEM WAS FORMULATED DURING THE BRITISH REGIME WHEN WORLD WAS NOT SO VERY DEVELOPED.LOT OF WATER HAS PASSED THRO THE THAMES FROM THEN ON.EDUCATION SYSTEM SHOULD BE FOCUSED MORE ON TECHNICAL SIDE IN SUCH A WAY THAT MORE STUDENTS CHOOSE A COURSE WHICH CAN HELP THEM STAND ON THEIR OWN LEGS INSTEAD OF GETTING EMPLOYED IN A POSITION WHICH HAS NO RELEVANCE TO WHAT THEY STUDIED.THERE SHOULD BE ENOUGH GUIDANCE FOR THE STUDENTS TO CHOOSE A COURSE MATCHING THEIR INTERST AND SKILLS.

We need rapid changes in education system in India. On the one hand we need to focus more on inculcating moral values in our so called educated persons, on the other it need to be more practical oriented and broad based. We need to understand that India is now a global player. Its education should be capable of producing global citizens. Thus in my view, education should be kept exclusively in centre list. Secondly, private participation should be encourage for building large global standard educational institutions.

There are inequalities in Indian education system.

Education should get 7-10% of GDP. Money should go for  primary education rather than for secondary and higher engineering college/university like IIT/IIM.

Various technical & medical institutes are business ventures for the promoters.Now the higher education has a dream for the middle & lower income group.