Pre-Aryan, Aryan - Basic

BDS-1201
Lecturer- Nabila Sultana
Bengali as a Hybrid nation;

Pre-Aryan & Aryan
Anthropologists agree that Bangladesh has historically been a land of many races.
It is said that the origin of human beings in Africa, but that some of them at first moved into the
northern part of the middle east and then dispersed across the world. The groups of the people who
went to south-east Asia had crossed the land of Bangladesh several thousand years ago. These
people developed languages, known as Austric languages with their name Austric or Austro-
Asiatic people.
Near about the same time or later some other people, whom we now classify as mongoloid also
entered the territories of Bangladesh from the east and spread mainly into the uplands and hilly
areas.
Long before the arrival of the Aryans in the 5th and 6th centuries B.C., The Bengalis were already
racially mixed.
The Bengali nation is called a hybrid nation because there is a combination of more than one ethnic
group in our Bengali nation. Since there is a combination of multiple races in this race, the Bengali
race is called a hybrid race.
Some of our Bengalis are black, some are fair, some are tall and some are short. On the other hand,
if we look at Japanese and Chinese citizens, there is not much difference between them. That is,
every Japanese person looks almost the same. Many things are similar, starting from their shape
and skin color. But why is it different in the case of Bengalis. This difference is seen among
Bengalis because Bengalis do not come from a single ethnic group. Bengalis are a mixed ethnic
group.
Since ancient times different peoples used to travel from one place to another for different reasons.
According to anthropologists, some branches of the four major ethnic groups of the world have
met in this Bengal territory.
According to the Anthropologist
 Austro-Asiatic from South East Asia
 Mongoloid from East part of Asia
 Dravidian from the Southern and western parts of South-Asia
 Indo-Aryan people from the Northern part of the Middle-East and the Eastern part of
Europe.
The Aryans entered the Indian subcontinent before 2000 B.C. They developed a cultured society
in India. The Aryans entered Bengal after a long time they had come to India. Little information
about the lifestyle of the people of the country can be found before the arrival of the Aryans.
Pre Aryan-
Negrito
A primitive race with a body structure similar to that of the Negroes is supposed to have inhabited
this country. They are called Negritos or Negroids. Their original habitat was Africa. It cannot find
out from when they started to live here. They lived especially south of the Sahara Desert and in
Melanesia. They are considered the first nation.
Their skin color is black, their shape is curvy, their lips are thick and upturned, their nose is very
flat.
Now-a-days, they are not found easily. At present, some are found in Sundarbans, Jassore,
Mymensingh.
Austric/ Australoids
They are aboriginal people from the islands near Australia. According to historians, Austrics are
the oldest inhabitants of this country. At present, the influence of this ethnic group is the most
among Bengalis. It was thought that they came from Indochina to Assam and then to Bengal.
Their skin color is dark black, the head is long, the nose is wide, the height is medium and tall.
Their language was austric which is relevant with Mundari. Some thought that they evicted
Negritos and came in Bengal. According some historians, Bengali nation came from Austric. They
lived in villages and livelihood was related with agriculture.
Dravidian
Dravidians are one of the groups of Australoid origin. They are called Aboriginal Australoid
because of their similarity to the Austric aborigines. They came from the Mediterranean region.
Their skin color is black to brown, their body is medium in size, their head is long, their nose is
wide, their hair is black and brown and wavy.
They were more caviler than other nations. They evicted Austric. Some thought that by the mixing
of austric and Dravidian, pre-Aryan nation created.
Mongoloid
Mongolians lived in East Asia. These people came to India from South and West China. Their skin
color is fawn to brown, slender in shape, black and straight hair, cheeky head shape, flat nose,
eyelids protruding forward. Chakma, Garo, Hajong, Murong, Khasia, Mog, Tripura, Mizo,
Marma- these ethnic groups of Bangladesh belong to the mongoloid. Austric nation mixed with
mongoloid before Aryan came.
Alpine
Alpine race is predominant in Central Europe and parts of Western/Central Asia. Ripley argued
that the Alpines had originated in Asia, and had spread westwards along with the emergence and
expansion of agriculture, which they established in Europe. By migrating into Central Europe, they
had separated the northern and southern branches of the earlier European stock, creating the
conditions for the separate evolution of Nordics and Mediterranean.
Aryan-
Aryans are an outsider community in this country. They arrived in Bengal before the fifth century
BC. The Aryans gradually spread throughout the subcontinent after entering through the passes of
northern India. Aryans gave birth to Vedic civilization in this country. They have long heads,
narrow and medium noses, fair complexions, men's beards are long.
Aryan, name originally given to a people who were said to speak an archaic Indo-European
language and who were thought to have settled in prehistoric times in ancient Iran and the northern
Indian subcontinent.
Aryans were the group who invaded and conquered ancient India from the north and whose
literature, religion, and modes of social organization subsequently shaped the course of Indian
culture, particularly the Vedic religion that informed and was eventually superseded by Hinduism.
Later, people from different countries came to this country for trade or conquest. The natural
resources of this country attracted people from different countries. The main reasons for coming
to Bengal were:
• First, the zeal to conquer and occupy a new region
• Second, to do business in the wealthy and prosperous Bengal
• Third, suitable environment of Bengal to live in.
• Fourth, to preach the message of Islam
Turks, Pathans, Mughals, Iranians, Abyssinians, and Arabs from Central Asia, Persia, and Turkey
came to live in this country and mixed with Bengali blood. Later the blood of the people of this
region mixed with the English, Portuguese and Dutch.
Thus, it can be seen that Bengali is not a pure ethnic race. There are various types of ethnic groups
influencing the formation of Bengali nation. So Bengalis are a hybrid race.

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