The People (Aryans) Who Never Existed

A book titled “The People (Aryans) Who Never Existed” has become available on Amazon, which scientifically rejects the “Aryan theory.”
Christopher M. Hutton, professor of linguistics and cultural studies at the University of Hong Kong and a specialist in the history of linguistics, writes in his book “The People Who Never Existed: Linguistic Research and the Invention of the Aryans” that:

  • The concept of the “Aryan race”, which became very prominent in the 19th and 20th centuries and was later exploited by the Nazis, is in fact a completely imaginary and unscientific construct that emerged from 19th-century comparative linguistics.
  • The term “Aryan” was originally only a linguistic term (referring to the Indo-Iranian branch of languages). European linguists and Indologists (such as Max Müller and others) gradually transformed this term into the idea of a “race.”
  • There is no archaeological, genetic, or historical evidence for the existence of a unified “Aryan people” who supposedly migrated from the Eurasian steppes to India and Iran.
  • The entire story of an “Aryan migration” and an “Aryan master race” is a 19th-century scientific-political myth, which still persists today in India and Iran.

Therefore, for the first time, British intelligence officers and military advisors—appearing under the guise and title of archaeologists such as Henry Creswicke Rawlinson—used the “Aryan theory” and the comparison of Iranian languages with Sanskrit, as well as the Achaemenid kings’ inscriptions at Behistun. Later, his brother George Rawlinson formulated the idea of an aristocratic Achaemenid Persian Aryan lineage. After them, continuing this Western fabrication project, Friedrich Max Müller invented the “Aryan civilization and people,” and later James Darmesteter, Arthur de Gobineau (who promoted the idea of a “pure Persian Aryan race”), Edward Granville Browne, George Curzon, and others contributed as well.

What is remarkable is that all of these individuals—who appeared as archaeologists or Iran-enthusiasts—held positions such as British ambassadors and foreign ministers, British intelligence advisors, official French diplomats, British military surveyors, MI4 intelligence officers, and high-ranking members of the Church serving as professors of colonial history.

From inscriptions to Persepolis and hundreds of newly-constructed artifacts, as well as thousands of books, this group spent a century shaping Iran’s literature, culture, history, archaeology, society, religion, and identity according to Britain’s fabricated Aryanization project. With the deaths of Adolf Hitler and Reza Shah, this project did not end. To this day, Western-affiliated proponents of this “Iran-centric” ideology continue their social and political existence inside and outside Iran, promoting Cyrus-worship within the power structures.