Question

The original home of the Aryan,according to Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak,was___________.
A)Kashmir
B)Tibet
C)Central Asia
D)Arctic region

Answer 1

Hint: Aryans literally means noble or civilized. The historical concept of the Aryan race emerged in the nineteenth century to describe a racial grouping ( a group on the basis of physical or social qualities) of the people belonging to Indo-European heritage.

Complete answer:The origins of the Aryans is widely debated among the history of India as many historians claim that they were not the inhabitants of India. Max Muller, a German scholar suggested that Aryans belonged to the Caspian sea near Russia.
the Independence activist Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, propounded the idea that the North pole was the original home of the Aryans. In 1903, a book named “ The Arctic Home in the Vedas” written by Bal Gangadhar Tilak on the origins of the Aryan people. The Aryan people are also known as Indic people, it is an ethnolinguistic group speaking Indo-Aryan Languages which is a blend of Indo-Iranian and Indo-European languages. The book states that Aryans resided in the north pole during the pre-glacial period around 8000 B.C. from where they had to migrate in search of new settlements due to the ice deluge.
Lokmanya Tilak presented various Vedic hymns, Vedic calendars and Vedic chronology to back his theory such as the use of Sanskrit, the language of Indo-Aryan is closely linked to the languages of Europe.
Options A, B and C can be eliminated. Therefore, option D is correct.

Note: Aryans from the North invaded India and influenced the Vedic religion by their literature, religion and social organizations.