A 19th-century race theory refuted by Ambedkar himself is still being taught to Indian schoolchildren in 2024 — and one man filed a writ petition in the Madras High Court to stop it.
Mahalingam Balaji presents a structured civic advocacy talk exposing how NCERT and state textbooks continue to embed the Aryan Invasion/Race Theory — a colonial-era construct explicitly linked to blood purity and manufactured to fracture Indian society along racial lines. Crucially, he quotes a 2001 Delhi Historian Group document that itself warned about the divisive potential of race theory in textbooks, and a 2005 Central Advisory Board noting the psychological damage to students’ self-esteem from race-related content at an impressionable age.
The Madras High Court, while declining to rule on historical facts, directed NCERT and SCERT to hold a personal hearing with the petitioner within twelve weeks. Balaji’s call to viewers is specific: visit AryanRaceTheoryDebunk.org, share the information, and add individual voices to a collective campaign. His closing argument lands cleanly — future generations of Bharatiyas must not be indoctrinated by a theory even its original supporters have abandoned.

About the Speaker:
Mahalingam Balaji hails from a lineage of Vedic scholars and Agnihotries who moved to a secular occupation one generation ago. He had a successful career in the corporate sector for nearly three decades, having held many leadership positions in India and abroad. As a corporate leader and research director, he is well known for his thoughts on leadership and extensive experience in setting up global research and analytics teams and mentoring research teams at scale. Presently he is incubating a think tank to articulate the Bharatiya civilizational worldview in a contemporary context to develop institutional mechanisms to aid research on Bharatiya parampara tradition.