The Development of Aryan Invasion Theory in India by Subrata Chattopadhyay Banerjee

Author:Subrata Chattopadhyay Banerjee
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
ISBN: 9789811377556
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Published: 2020-08-24T09:11:06.433776+00:00

3.5.3 Keshub’s Adoption of AIT

Keshub Chandra Sen was deeply impressed by Christianity. In the New Dispensation, he embodied 39 articles. The articles resembled closely the prayer book of Anglican Church .91 Sen was also aware of the developments in the science of religion. To justify the object of his new Samaj, he proclaimed in a lecture on ‘We, Apostles of the New Dispensation’—‘Come then to the synthetic utility of the New Dispensation. You will see how all other dispensations are harmonized and unified in this, a whole host of churches resolved into a scientific unity…They are connected in one continuous chain which may be traced to the earliest age…The New Dispensation has discovered the missing link. It has found the secret thread, which goes through these dispensations, and keeps them together. Where others see only confusion and anomaly, it sees order and continuity. Joyfully it exclaims, “I have found the science of dispensation at last, unity in multiplicity.”’92

Unmistakably, the discovery of the ‘science’ in the religion is something that came from the influence of Oriental studies, notably from Müller. In93 it is conjectured that Sen wanted to please everybody with his universal religion. The author Ram Chandra Bose published this book during Sen’s lifetime.94 There, the claim of a synthetic religion to connect all religions is strongly challenged. In particular, the religion of Veda is dubbed as a sublime form of polytheism. Therefore, Bose argued that, it could never be connected to theism. These writings appeared in paper form in Indian Evangelical Review. This clearly reflected the strong opposition of many Brahmos from other factions towards Keshub’s New Dispensation.

Keshub stood strong against the opposition and stuck to his new faith. However, the interesting turn occurred when he chose to use the term Aryan. In the book summarizing the new dispensation, it is named as ‘the Sacred Laws of the Aryans of the New Dispensation’. This removed whatsoever doubts one had before, that Aryans are indeed a race, which are connected by religious principles, and not just the people who spoke the same language. Sen addressed the entire Indian populace in,95 ‘It is only the national law of the Aryans of the New Church in India’. Aryan connected Indians, British, Christianity and Vedas. In the sacred laws, he connects Rig Veda and Baptism of the son of the God in river Jordan in subsequent laws.96

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