India’s ancient history goes back well beyond 3000 BC — and the reason modern historians can’t see it is a biblical mindset baked into the foundational assumptions of Western chronology.
Dr. Vedveer Arya, military officer and Indic chronology researcher, presents the core argument of his work: the entire framework of world chronology was corrupted when 18th-century Christian historians tried to reconcile Egyptian, Sumerian, Assyrian, and Jewish timelines against a creation date of 4000 BC. Any Indian data placing civilizational existence before 3000 BC was dismissed — despite Greek sources like Arrian’s Anabasis recording 6,400+ years of Indian history before Alexander, and 153 successive kings listed in Megasthenes.
His specific finding is a 661-year chronological error that pervades both Indian and Western medieval history — a jigsaw puzzle where disturbing one piece requires rebuilding the whole. He argues archaeology must be a supporting evidence for chronology, never the primary source; traditional literary evidence establishes the timeline first. Correcting three specific blunders in existing chronological frameworks, he believes, would allow a perfect world chronology to be established — one that restores India’s actual civilizational timeline from Mahabharata to the present.
About The Speaker :
Shri Vedveer Arya is a 1997 batch officer of ‘Indian Defence Accounts Service’ (IDAS). He obtained his Master Degree(Sanskrit) from Hindu College (DU) and is awarded the Dr. Radhakrishnan Memorial Gold Medal and CD Deshmukh Memorial Gold Medal by Delhi University. He has authored five books on India’s Chronology.