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LONDON, ENGLAND, March 17, 2004: HPI was interested to learn that the history of Britain contains a controversy very much like that of the “Aryan Invasion” theory in India’s history. The Aryan Invasion theory claims that tribes from Asia entered India about 1500 bce and brought with them the Vedas, Sanskrit and many aspects of what came to be Indian life. The Anglo-Saxon Invasion theory can be understood from these excerpts at “source” above on the BBC. Next to that article are references to a number of other articles on the same area, which is the subject of intense debate in England. Perhaps now we can suggest that those British scholars who support the Aryan Invasion theory first get straight their own history, and that of just 1,500 years ago, before they offer an opinion on ours at 3,500 years ago



Exerpts: “New scientific research adds to growing evidence that the Anglo-Saxons did not replace the native population in England as history books suggest. The data indicates at least some areas of eastern England absorbed very few Anglo-Saxon invaders, contrary to the view in many historical accounts. The results support the view of other researchers that the introduction of Anglo-Saxon culture and language into Britain did not occur through large-scale replacement of native populations by invading tribes. Anglo-Saxons supposedly began migrating into Britain en masse from the fifth century. Their culture and language has long formed the basis for English national identity. It seems more likely that there was a small-scale immigration from continental Europe and that the existing British population adopted the customs of these outsiders as their own.”

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