By now it is quite clear that Elst is responsible for importing vast quantities of low grade quasi-fascist/western conservative "ideas" into hindutva. In the below sample, he little realizes that the positivism/empiricism/IE studies he swears by is just an earlier variant of cultural marxism. His supposed hippie past is also in doubt - there is no idealistic strand in him. A vulgarian to the core, rationalized as "rational atheism".

He is also ironically responsible for the fanatical AIT-believing sect among the "RW".

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@gaur[..]
11 days ago
​ @cryptonash16  Sapta Sindhu is Punjab and Haryana Region not whole India.. Haryana And some part of Rajasthan is Brahmvart, where vedas were written. And Aryavart is more older than Name Bharat..
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@crypt[..]
7 days ago
 @gauravsharma_7  but that is just North West India.. How about North East, East and South??? The name India/ Sindhu or Jambudvipa is good enough to represent whole India.

@darkprince2490
20 minutes ago (edited)
​ @gauravsharma_7  it is literally ridiculous to confine vedas to some local tract - they had full sway over the entire course of bharata. A bandhu sitting in TN today is not any more distant to ganga in terms of mind space than some "local". same was even more true in the past. Also, westerners have falsely applied the logic of western empires to Bharata - they need some political unity for "influence" to spread. this was not the case among the heathens like us. Their empire based influence is a translation of the imperial nature of monotheism, and reflects even deeper division along the lines of tribes vs hostile outsider heathens. Our organizing was completely different. Elst is a fraud - the positivism he swears by is an earlier version of cultural marxism. At some point it colonized the hard sciences so it appears to be something different than what it truly is... its core is a colonial orientalist enlightenment discourse that fed into both mills' history of india and the eugenist race science of IE. Our tradition was much richer in lived reality than some formalized texts. we are only seeing a small snapshot of that diversity. Elst's method requires that diversity get generated via corruption of an original text with meaning. this does not apply to bharata where diversity of traditions was not ideologically generated, ,and their meaning was always multivariate from the git go.

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@vedritvik
5 months ago
 @Shiva-zj6od  No. Terms like "तुर्वशे यदौ" like in Ric 8.45.27 translated "Yadu-Turvasu tribe" by western "scholars" does not mean so most of the time because they did not care to study Nirukta (very important for understanding Vedic Sanskrit words) and they translated literally while Vedas are supposed to be understood in context or you will get stupid translations such as in Purusha sukta where they consider the creator Purusha's limbs when Ishvara has no body like us, Ishvara is VYAPTA-everywhere. Yadu/Yado in general means man/simple man / enemy who obstructs some work / adharmi / etc as per different scenarios in Vedic Sanskrit. The word comes from dhaatu (root) "yat" (yat+u = yatu = yadu) that could mean anything from to distress, beat, order, collect, work, prevent, remove, return, barter, purify, etc., hence CONTEXT MATTERS. Please do not be fooled by western translators, my friend. Bharatiyas who translated Vedas do not call them "translations", but "commentary". Vedas are words of knowledge gifted by Parameshvara to us.