Aryan Race Research Articles

Surgical management for the case of scrotal myiasis in a 7-day-old neonate: a case report

IntroductionNeonatal myiasis is a rare condition, with few reports available on the subject. Surgical management is recommended in some cases. In this study, we present the case of a 7-day-old male neonate with larvae in his scrotum who underwent surgery.Case presentationA full-term 7-day-old male infant (Aryan race) was referred to a children’s hospital. On the sixth day after birth, three 3–4 mm long larvae crawled out from his scrotum, with the number increasing over time. He was given intravenous antibiotics and topical mupirocin to combat secondary infections. The surgical treatment involved two steps: first, the larvae were extracted, and then the infection site was washed with betadine and hydrogen peroxide to help remove any possible remaining larvae.ConclusionScrotal myiasis is a rare disease that occurs in infants and requires immediate treatment. Surgical treatment is effective in removing dead or decaying larvae from a deep-seated location and washing the infection site to prevent secondary infection.

This is a successful removal of more than 450 pieces of metal objects from a patient’s stomach: a case report

BackgroundIngestion of foreign bodies may be seen unconsciously or intentionally in patients with mental health problems. Most cases pass through the esophagus slowly; however, in some cases, the tumor may be located in narrower areas of the digestive tract that require endoscopic or surgical intervention. This study describes a rare case of successful removal of more than 450 pieces of metal objects from the stomach of a 36-year-old man via ingestion of foreign bodies at Imam Khomeini Hospital in Ahvaz.Case presentationA 36-year-old male patient (Aryan race) presented with complaints of chronic abdominal pain, frequent vomiting, and intolerance to liquids and food. The patient’s companions mentioned a history of gradual ingestion of small metal objects 3 months prior. The patient was conscious and had stable vital signs. In the patient’s X-ray and endoscopy, multiple metal objects inside the patient’s stomach were observed, causing gastric outlet obstruction. The patient underwent gastrostomy surgery, and 452 screws, nuts, keys, stones, and other metal parts weighing 2900 g were removed from the stomach. Five days after the operation, the patient was transferred to the psychiatric service in good general condition and was diagnosed with psychosis, and her condition returned to normal at follow-up.ConclusionSuccessful removal of this foreign body is rare. In chronic abdominal pain, especially in the context of psychiatric disorders, attention should be given to the ingestion of foreign bodies. In swallowing large amounts of sharp and metallic foreign objects, surgical intervention is necessary, especially in cases of obstruction, and saves the patient’s life.

Politický mýtus, Thomas Robert Malthus a vznik árijské rasové imaginace

The emergence of Nazi ideology and the rise of Nazism represented one of the most dramatic and tragic events of modern times, the consequences of which humanity is still dealing with today. The doctrine of the superiority of the Aryan race was an integral part of Nazi doctrine and served as a “scientific” justification for German expansionism and the policy of ethnic genocide. The Nazi conception of the German nation as the chosen Aryan racial community was identified as an example of a modern political myth by Henry Tudor in the early 1970s [Tudor 1972: 16]. We will attempt to explain the rise of Aryan ideology using the concept of political myth and Blumenberg’s notion of “work on myth” as the result of the long development of Western genealogical speculation, which underwent a process of secularization during the Enlightenment and once combined with stimuli coming from contemporary natural sciences, was used under the conditions of modern industrial society to “rationally” legitimize inequalities between people. A parallel development, consisting in the attempt to deny by scientific arguments the equality of human beings, despite the spread of liberal ideas inspired, among others, by the American and French Revolutions, took place in the economic sciences, where the doctrine of the British political economist Thomas Robert Malthus gained prominence at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Malthusianism, Aryan race ideology, Social Darwinism, or the eugenics movement thus had a common denominator, which Friedrich August von Hayek called the “counter-revolution of science” or Zeev Sternhell “counter-Enlightenment”.

The Invention of Iran: From ‘Iranianness’ to ‘Persianness’

ABSTRACT The intellectual ‘invention of Iran’ is a potent image that owes its birth to the Orientalist practice of archaeology and historiography from the mid-19th to the latter 20th century: an intellectual enterprise that originated from the myth of Aryan race theory, the hypothesis of Aryan migration to the Indian subcontinent, and the subsequent positioning of Persian ethnie to be the sole author of Iran’s ‘glorious national past’. This Eurocentric narration has given rise to ‘Persianness’ as an ethnoracial form of supremacy akin to the role of Whiteness in Europe and the US. In this article, I not only examine the epistemic foundations of Iranian nationalism but, more importantly, show how the enduring legacy of the Orientalist interpretation of Iran’s past animates the work of contemporary Persian scholars and elites. I argue that the historical construction of Persianness as a privileged identity has essentialised seeing, thinking, knowing, and speaking like a Persian and thereby presented it as a natural order of things. This raciolinguistic invention sustains a habitus that perceives and treats the non-Persian histories and memories only through the lens of Persianness – in which they are by definition less-than.

Counter-Discourses of Lower-Caste Intellectuals in Colonial and Postcolonial India: Mainstream Hindu Discourses and the Phule-Ambedkar Ideology

This study examines the nature of discourse formation in the Dalit movement by analysing two different historical stages: 1) the nineteenth-century upper-caste discourse on Aryan race theory and the counter-discourse advocated by Phule; and 2) the early twentieth-century mainstream nationalist discourse and the counter-discourse proposed by B. R. Ambedkar. However, the ideologies of Phule and Ambedkar, which have often been combined and called the ‘Phule-Ambedkar ideology’, contain heterogeneous and conflicting elements, especially concerning lower-caste identity and perceptions of the upper castes. Counter-discourses have been produced through interaction with and responses to the contemporary mainstream discourse in different times and contexts

Christian Yoga, New Thought, and "The First Hindu American": The Life and Thought of Akhoy Kumar Mozumdar

ABSTRACT: Akhoy Kumar Mozumdar (1881-1953), New Thought proponent and teacher of Christian Yoga, was among the earliest Indians to get American citizenship and the first Indian immigrant filmmaker in the United States. Yet his name is referenced merely in passing in the histories of both the New Thought movement and early twentieth-century yoga. Focusing on Mozumdar's life and thought, this article argues that Mozumdar's universalist teachings on the power of the human mind were embedded in discourses of racial and caste purity that were crucial to him gaining American citizenship and garnering acceptance as a spiritual teacher among White audiences. His life and work reveal that discourses of racial purity in the United States, evident in New Thought too, were implicated in discourses of caste and Aryan race theory transposed to American shores from overseas.

Social Progress and the Dravidian “Race” in Tamil Social Thought

In the closing decades of the 19th century, a wide range of Tamil authors and public speakers in colonial India became acutely interested in the notion of a Dravidian “race”. This conception of a Dravidian race, rooted in European racial and philological scholarship on the peoples of South India, became an important symbol of Tamil cultural, religious, and social autonomy in colonial and post-colonial Tamil thought, art, politics, and literature. European racial thought depicted Dravidians as a savage race that had been subjugated or displaced by the superior Aryan race in ancient Indic history. Using several key works of colonial scholarship, non-Brahmin Tamil authors reversed and reconfigured this idea to ground their own broad-reaching critiques of Brahmin political and social dominance, Brahmanical Hinduism, and Indian nationalism. Whereas European scholarship largely presented Dravidians as the inferiors of Aryans, non-Brahmin Tamil thinkers argued that the ancient, Dravidian identity of the Tamil people could stand alone without Aryan interference. This symbolic contrast between Dravidian (Tamil, non-Brahmin, South Indian) and Aryan (Sanskritic, Brahmin, North Indian) is a central component of 20th- and 21st-century Tamil public discourse on caste, gender, and cultural autonomy. Tamil authors, speakers, activists, and politicians used and continue to use the symbolic frame of Dravidian racial history to advocate for many different political, cultural, and social causes. While not all of these “Dravidian” discourses are meaningfully politically or socially progressive, the long history of Dravidian-centered, anti-Brahmanical discourse in Tamil South India has helped Tamil Nadu largely rebuff the advances of Hindu nationalist politics, which have become dominant in other cultural regions of present-day India. This piece presents a background on the emergence of the term “Dravidian” in socially critical Tamil thought, as well as its reversal and reconfiguration by Tamil social thinkers, orators, and activists in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. The piece begins with a brief history of the terms “Dravidian” and “Aryan” in Western racial thought. The piece then charts the evolution of this discourse in Tamil public thought by discussing several important examples of Tamil social and political movements that incorporate the conceptual poles of “Dravidian” and “Aryan” into their own platforms.

Քրիստոնեությունը` մեր ազգային ողբերգության համատեքստում / CHRISTIANITY IN THE CONTEXT OF OUR NATIONAL TRAGEDY

In the professional literature, the nationalization of Christianity in Armenia is mainly considered from the point of view of the preservation of statehood and national identity, presented as a political and cultural achievement... Not denying the role of religion and the church in the preservation of national values, language and culture, and therefore national identity, especially in the absence of statehood, the author tries to establish that our national pantheon, which was consistent with our nature, had not exhausted itself at all, therefore, there was no need to eliminate it. There was alsono need to impose Christianity. Our ideal was the Armenian worshiping Vahagn, warlike, liberating and patriotic. It was he who was able to impose his Will on History, Time and Environment and created an empire spanning from the Mediterranean to the Caspian. The destruction of the National Cemetery, Temples and temple culture was directed against the Aryan Armenians. Christianity, according to the author, could only be the result of a foreign political conspiracy, the purpose of which was to end the dominance of the Aryan race in the region and push Armenians out of the region by cutting them off from their related peoples... Which was completely fulfilled.

Evolution of Human Races and the advent of Aryans in South Asia

This study investigates the Aryan race's origins, migration into India, and their transformative impact on South Asian civilization. Utilizing a qualitative approach, the research synthesizes secondary sources, including historical texts, scholarly articles, and archaeological findings, to provide a detailed account of Aryan influence. The findings reveal that Aryans migrated into India between 500 and 2500 BC, interacting with various indigenous groups like the Austric and Darwin races. Their arrival marked a significant shift from simpler, egalitarian societies based on agriculture and animal husbandry to a more complex social structure with hierarchical class systems and centralized governance. The Aryans introduced new administrative practices and social norms, laying the groundwork for a more structured society. Furthermore, the Aryans played a crucial role in the establishment and promotion of Hinduism, incorporating ethical principles from religious texts into their governance and cultural practices. This integration fostered the development of enduring Hindu festivals, rituals, and traditions that continue to be celebrated today. The research underscores the Aryans' pivotal role in shaping India's cultural and societal landscape. It provides valuable insights for historians and scholars of South Asian studies, enhancing the understanding of early human migration, cultural integration, and the formation of ancient civilizations in the Indian subcontinent.

Buddhism, Aryan Discourse, Racism, and the Influence of Christianity in Colonial Ceylon

abstract: Evidence from the Pali texts suggests that the Buddha opposed judging people on the grounds of their place of birth, their ethnic identity, or their skin color. In practice, however, Buddhist traditions have not been and are not free of such judgments. This article illustrates this through a case study of Buddhism in colonial and postcolonial Ceylon, with particular reference to the Aryan theory. It argues that the language of race and nation that emerged among Buddhists in this context was influenced by three factors: the academic work of European linguists and ethnographers; Christian missionary representations of Buddhism; and readings of Pali texts that attributed the term ariya (noble, good, pure) to Buddhist communities. The article first examines the concept of ariya (Pali; Sanskrit: ārya ) in the Theravada Buddhist tradition. It then surveys the discourse in colonial Ceylon on the term "Aryan," including the involvement of Christian leaders and the Buddhist internalization of the discourse in the context of Christian missionary activity, as seen particularly in the writings of the Anagārika Dharmapāla (1864–1933). Another strand in the discourse is then isolated, namely the "othering" of the minority, "Dravidian" Tamils in colonial Ceylon, and the consequences of this in the postcolonial period. Finally, the article asks whether this case study can offer insights into the fault lines within Buddhist cultures, and indeed, Christian cultures, that could give rise to racism.

Safety and Efficacy of Low Dose Atropine in Nepalese Children with Progressive Myopia.

Myopia is emerging as a public health emergency worldwide. Low dose atropine has been proven to be safe and efficacious in halting the progression of myopia. Aim of this study was to evaluate safety and efficacy of low dose atropine in Nepalese children with progressive myopia. It is a prospective non randomized interventional study. Children with myopia progression of >0.5D in the last six months with baseline myopia of -1.5 to -8 Diopter and astigmatism of 3 D or less were prescribed 0.01% atropine daily at bedtime for two years. Demography including age, gender, race, and examinations including anterior and posterior segment, axial length, near point of accommodation and near vision were recorded in all the children. Ocular and systemic side effects were documented. A total of 200 children were enrolled in the study. Mean age was 11.9±2.97 years with 41% female. Baseline mean axial length was 24.47±1 and mean spherical equivalent was 3.69±1.33. Average increase in axial length was 0.18(±0.02), 0.17(±0.02), and 0.19(±0.04) mm in six months, one year, and two years respectively. The increase in spherical equivalence was 0.2 (±0.01), 0.3(±0.02), and 0.3(±0.02)) diopter in six months, one year, and two years respectively. The myopia progression was found more in the Mongolian race compared to the Aryan race. No ocular or systemic side effects were documented. Topical low dose atropine appears to be safe and efficacious in halting the progression of myopia in a cohort of Nepalese children. Further randomized control trial on various doses of atropine are recommended.

Global Importance of German Language

Through this qualitative study, the major impact and significance of German Language is studied in a detail manner where it goes back to its origin and spread across several parts of Europe which gradually has an impact throughout the world. The topic is related to several factors which relate to the main discussion of the fact that this language exists. The Germans have basically inhabited in which we presently find them for the reason that earliest of instances. Formerly, it become concept at first from Asia, they moved right here, however a few of the notion that the greatest government presently support is that the if Aryans originated in Europe, then the Germans must have born on or very near the land that they presently occupy. What was the Aryan race's original home, whilst we inquire thoughtfully? What portion of the earth's surface did they occupy before dividing into the portions that later developed into some of ethnicities is all we will ask. However, the meagre evidence of a totally restricted vocabulary that become developed in accordance with the flora, fauna, and standard topographical situations in which the race to begin with lived provide us with a solution to this query. However, in the event that they travelled as a set, as is typically mentioned, thru international locations with essentially same bodily qualities, their vocabulary could now not modify, neither would it grow nor cut back. If those occasions changed, new words would broaden that could fit in the new habitat. If those conditions changed, new phrases could be fashioned, which could correspond to the new habitat. But now right here are we to distinguish these from the older stratum, if the individuals who used them have been still homogeneous? Do the primitive phrases that also live to tell the tale, date from the start of their profession, or from the time once they had come to be comparatively strong? The inquiry ought to constantly continue to be barren of honest consequences, fascinating as it's miles for the pupil of language. Through this paper, I intend to intend to put forth the significance and impact of the language in Europe as well as globally through a detailed study of its rich history and gradual development of the language in various parts of the region.

Human Rights and Oppressed Peoples: Collected Essays and Speeches

Human Rights and Oppressed Peoples: Collected Essays and Speeches

Jews as Non-Aryans: The Vatican's Ambivalent Embrace of Fascist Italy's Racialization of Jews

In the summer of 1938, Italy's Fascist regime announced its new ‘racial’ policy, soon to be followed by a series of draconian racial laws. The policy was based on the principle that Catholic Italians were of the Aryan race and Jewish Italians belonged to a separate race of non-Aryans. Previously the Vatican had made no such racial distinction. Yet, notwithstanding the frequent claim that the Church has never distinguished between Catholics and Jews on racial grounds, the Vatican quickly began to assimilate to the Fascist state's distinction of Jews as racially marked as non-Aryan. The opening in 2020 of the Vatican archives for the papacy of Pius XII (1939–58) has made available a huge trove of documents bearing on the way the pope and the Vatican secretariat of state dealt with Italy's racial laws and with the subsequent persecution of Italy's Jews during German occupation. As shown in this article, these documents make clear the Vatican's use of racial language and racial concepts as it dealt with the racial laws and the persecution of Italy's Jews from the time the racial laws were introduced in 1938 to the years of the Holocaust.

Aspects Regarding Cooperation within the European Union – Learning Integration through Art 87 of the TFEU

The origins of the idea of an United Europe are lost in the mists of time; the Roman conquests in the Antiquity reflect a series of trends of European unity, but in the Middle Ages, religious conflicts divided Europe: on the one hand we talk about pontifical unity, and on the other hand about imperial unity (Pascariu, 2020). The European Union is presented as more than an international organization with many specifications, but it is less than a state. The European Union, as an area, has been built over several decades and is constantly strengthening its institutions. Thus, after the end of the Second World War, after the atrocities of the Holocaust that resulted in the death of millions of people, the decision was made to create a space of peace and stability. In order to have an overall picture of what the Holocaust represented, it is necessary to emphasize the fact that the human species was divided into two categories: the Aryan race and the others (this category included Jews, Roma, people with physical or mental disabilities, etc.).

Aryanem Vaejah’tan İran’a: Zerdüşt’ten Erken İslamî Döneme Bir Kavramın Etimolojik ve Tarihsel Serüveni

Bu çalışmada İran kavramının etimolojik kökeninden hareketle tarihsel süreç içerisindeki evrilişi bahse konu edilmiştir. Avesta başta olmak üzere dinî edebiyatta Aryan ırkının yaşadığı bölge anlamında kullanılan Aryanem Vaejah, zaman içerisinde fonetik değişimlerle Ērān/İran’a dönüşmüştür. Bu kavram, mekânın yanı sıra bu mekânda yaşayanlara nispetle, aynı zamanda etnik bir kökene ve dinî bir bağlama da işaret etmektedir. Mitolojik bir dille inşa edilen bu kavramın çerçevesi, Perslerden Sâsânîlere doğru genişleyen bir anlam kümesine kavuşmuştur. Coğrafi, siyasi, milli ve dinî boyutları barındırmasına rağmen Perslerin kadîm geçmişine atıfla düşük tonda söz konusu edilen kavram, Sâsânîlerle birlikte oldukça vurgulu bir biçimde bu dört katmanlı yapısına sahip olmuştur. Sâsânî imparatorluğunun etno-dinî tonlamayla politik düzlemde varlık bulduğu İran ve türevi terimlerin (Ēr(ān), An-Ērān, Ērānšhar) inşa ettiği anlam dünyası, İslam fetihleriyle birlikte bağlamını yitirmiştir. Öyle ki bu durum, Sâsânîler tarafından yoğun bir şekilde kullanılan bu kavramsal çerçevenin, İslam fetihleri sonrasında siyasal zeminini kaybedilmesiyle eş zamanlı gerçekleşmiştir. Mağlup siyasi gücün kurucu kelimelerinin rengi, İslam hâkimiyetiyle solmuş ve erken dönem İslamî kayıtlarda İran kavramsal çerçevesi yerine Acem ve Fars/Furs gibi kavramlar yüksek sesle dile getirilmeye başlanmıştır. Burada kavramsal yapısı süreç içerisinde değişim ve dönüşüm gösteren İran’ın etimolojik serüveni irdelenmiştir. Avesta ve onun Sâsânî dönemi yorumu olarak bilinen Zendlerden oluşan dinî edebiyatın verileri ve Perslerden Sâsânîlere kraliyet yazıtları, kitabeler ve klasik kaynaklar, bu çalışmanın ana izleğine ışık tutmaktadır.

Understanding the Question ‘What is Philosophy?’ in the Apocalyptic ‘End of Time’

While Stalinism destroyed the Bolshevik Revolution completely by replacing Marx’s idea of communism as the ‘association of free people’ with a dictatorship of the despotic Oriental version of state capitalism that masqueraded as socialism, liberalism, fascism, and authoritarianism (the three axes of modern capitalist societies) have led not only to the collapse and destruction of reason, but also to the destruction of the very basis of critical thinking itself. This essay claims that Slavoj Žižek’s idea of the Denkverbot (‘prohibition against thinking’) is an important idea that raises the importance of philosophy to not only counter the rise of global versions of authoritarianism, but also to critique late imperialism in permanent and terminal crisis. It talks of the apocalyptic idea of the ‘end of time’, a biblical theme that is now being put into practice in Ukraine with the Russian invasion and fueled by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) bloc of nations which, like Russia, can only exist with the help of images of the apocalypse. What must be mentioned is that while Stalin replaced Marxism as critical theory with authoritarian dogma and while fascism completely repressed classical German philosophy to create a nationalist mytho-politics of the ‘Aryan race’, the discipline of rigorous philosophy was banished in universities by neoliberal capitalism for whom philosophy as critical thinking had to be supplemented by the principles of hyper-consumerism and the corresponding ‘complete regression of thinking’. This essay is on the very important questions ‘What is called philosophical thinking?’ and ‘How can revolutionary thinking transcend the domain of the counterrevolutionary repressed mind?’ and, most importantly, the very burning question: ‘What is philosophy?’

Reorienting Grass

The original score of Iranian, Turkish, Arab, and Kurdish music created for the 1992 Milestone Films re-release of Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life, deserves more attention than scholars have given it. This essay aims to fill this gap in the critical literature by providing context for the Milestone soundtrack and analyzing its musical and cultural implications and its potential impact on viewers of the film. The essay sets the context for this study by speculating about the lost 1925 score by Hugo Riesenfeld, especially in relation to his reputation for scoring Westerns. It also builds on other scholars’ examination of Aryan race theory expressed in the film’s intertitles, placing this racist ideology within more recent critical theory. I go on to discuss how Amir Vahab, one of the composers, approached the score. I argue that the music is an example of locative cosmopolitanism. Within these contexts, the essay analyzes the score in detail by focusing on the regional elements of the music, its relationship to traditional dances depicted on screen, the choice of modes and instrumentation, and the use of sung Turkish and Persian poetry. The essay argues that the culturally and regionally relevant score challenges and even displaces the racializing ideology of the intertitles.

“Euclid” must fall: The “Pythagorean” “theorem” and the rant of racist and civilizational superiority — Part 1

To eliminate racist prejudices, it is necessary to identify the root cause(s) of racism. American slavery preceded racism, and it was closely associated with genocide. Accordingly, we seek the unique cause of the unique event of genocide + slavery. This was initially justified by religious prejudice, rather than colour prejudice. This religious justification was weakened when many Blacks converted to Christianity, after the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The curse of Kam, using quick visual cues to characterize Blacks as inferior Christians, was inadequate. Hence, the church fell back on an ancient trick of using false history as secular justification for Christian superiority. This trick had resulted in a false history of science during the Crusades when scientific knowledge in translated Arabic texts was indiscriminately attributed to the early Greeks, without evidence. This false history enabled belief in religious superiority to mutate into a secular belief in White superiority. After colonialism, and the Aryan race conjecture, the belief in White superiority further mutated into a belief in Western civilizational superiority, openly propagated today by colonial education. Hence, to eliminate racist prejudice, it is necessary to engage simultaneously with the allied prejudices about Christian/White/Western superiority, based on the same false history of science.

Colonial Roots of the Aryan Invasion/Migration Theory and the Contemporary Archaeological Evidence in Western Sources

William Jones, famously, by identifying close linkages between Sanskrit and European languages, gave birth to research into the common ancestry between Indians and Europeans. In the earlier years of contention on the matter, India was considered the cradle of civilisation and Sanskrit as the mother of all Indo-European languages. With the rise in the imperial power of Europe over India, the cradle of civilisation began to shift outside India and ultimately landed in Europe. Simultaneously, the idea of invasion of India by the ‘Aryan race’, or the Aryan invasion theory (AIT), was promoted. Since then, however, one archaeological find over another have consistently refuted the AIT, proving it as false. As flawed as it remains, this theory has, nonetheless, persisted and morphed in its current form as the Aryan migration theory (AMT) and continues to find mention and favour in contemporary academic discourse. In mainstream academia, today, whether in grade-school texts or in texts meant for undergraduate and graduate study, whenever India and Hinduism are mentioned, the coming of Aryans from outside of India and establishing Hinduism and civilisation in India are discussed as veritable facts. By examining the theory in anticolonial and postcolonial contexts, we show that despite considerable archaeological evidence refuting the theories of the invasion or migration of Aryans into India, its colonial embeddedness in the notion of the racial superiority of the Europeans or people with European ancestry that the theory does not fade into oblivion.