This period was marked by a transition from the preceding Vedic Dark Ages of total barbarism and nomadism to a somewhat more settled period. The preceding Aryan racial domination gave way to absolute Brahmin racial domination.

• Greek Aryan Invasions ( c. 320 BC - 100 BC ) :
  The Greek Aryan invasions were the result of Brahmin policies of dividing Indian society into mutually warring fragments, and to encourage kindred white Caucasoids to immigrate into India. Kautilya the Brahmin used his pupil Candra Gupta to encourage Alexander the Great to invade India. Greek arms and soldiers enabled Candra Gupta to conquer Magadha and establish a Brahminist state.
• Buddhist Aryan Invasion (260 BC) :
  This Seventh Aryan invasion was launched by Askoka, King of Aryan Magadha. He invaded Kolarian Kalinga, an event which led to the horrible Kalinga War, in which 200,000 black aboriginals were killed & countless more enslaved. Several wars with the aboriginal races were waged. The Aryan religions of Jainism and Buddhism entered South India. Although these religions were liberal with Aryan castes, they kept the fundamental Aryan-Sudroid apartheid varna system. The Aryan Sinhalese Buddhists, invading from East India, meanwhile, exterminated the entire population of native black Dravidoids . Staunch Buddhist fanatics, they destroyed scores of Shaiva shrines, erecting Buddhist temples on the ruins and eventually eradicating Shaivism from Lanka.
• Eighth Aryan Invasion (100 BC) :
  The Eighth Aryan Invasion occurred under the Maharashtrian Satavahanas. They invaded Dravidia, sacking several cities and annexing Dravidian lands. This was the first of the Maharasthrian Aryan Invasions.

Sutric Aryan Invasions
• 1. Greek Aryan Invasion (325 BC - 100 BC)
• 2. Buddhist Aryan Invasion (260 BC)
  • 2.1 Totalitarian Nature of the Buddhist Mauryan State
  • 2.2 Wars of Aggression
  • 2.3 Sinhala Buddhist Aryan Invasion
• 3. Eighth Aryan Invasion (250 AD)

1. Aryan racial dominance during the Vedic Dark Ages gave way to Brahmin dominance.
2. Gradually, the anti-Vedic religions of Buddhism, Jainism etc, referred to as `nastikas', were crushed and exterminated in the cruellest manner by the Vaishnava armies, as typified by the tyrant Sunga Brahmins. Thousands of Buddhist temples were destroyed and countless monks massacered by the Aryan Vaishnavites.
3. During the Vedic Dark Ages learning was permitted to all Aryans irrespective of birth; only the Sudra `Dasyus' were barred from knowledge. During the Sutric Age, the Brahmins monopolised all knowledge, debarring even fellow Aryan Kshatriyas and Vaishyas from the spheres of learning.

Towards the Later Vedic Age, the Brahmins gradually usurped the priveleges that had belonged to all Aryans. There were several reasons for this change from Aryan dominion to Brahmin dominion :

1. The extermination of Negroid Sudras and other non-Aryans from North India meant that there was a shortage of labour. This vacuum was filled by degrading first the Vaisyas, and then the lower orders of Kshatriyas to the level which had previously belonged to the Sudroids.
2. Fears of racial contamination arose as the Vaisyas mixed with the Sudras socially, and to some extent, racially. Thus, these sections of Aryan society sank in estimation. With the omnipresent fear that black genes may `contaminate' Aryans, these sections were entirely degraded in status.
3. The development of highly centralised states (`janapadas') from the preceding democratic Aryan `janas', placed in the hands of the Brahmins the reigns of actual power. The monopoly over learning meant that all the top posts in the Government were in the hands of Brahmins. Absolute power both in the political as well as religious sphere enabled the Brahmins to crush whatever opposition may have existed.
4. The Aryan non-Brahmins, who had, along with Brahmins spoken Old Indo-Aryan during the Vedic Age, gradually developed local vernaculars. This was partly the result of their lack of literacy. The Brahmins, in order to arrest the supposed `corruption' of speech, as well as to counter the nascent anti-Vedic faiths, developed Sanskrit as a liturgical language to standardise Brahmanic scriptures, as well as to preserve knowledge to their race. The Sanskrit - Prakrit dichotomy led to the fracturing of the Aryan non-Brahmins into several distinct races, while the Brahmins, through their usage of Sanskrit, preserved their racial cohesion.
5. The result of the development of the Aryan vernaculars was that the Brahmins were the only all-India community. They established connections with other Brahmins all over the continent, something which the other races, limited by their local vernaculars, could not do.

1. Greek Aryan Invasion

Absolute Brahmin power was based on several pillars. These included :

• Creation of Janapadas - This refers to the Brahmin-engineered division of non-Brahmins into several perpetually warring states and nations. By means of this, the Brahmins ensured that there was no united all-India opposition to their dominion, localised revolts would threaten it in a small region only.
• Creation of Jati or Professional Caste - This refers to the Brahmin-engineered division of varnas (races) into various jatis, or professional guilds. These professional caste divions were enforced in addition to the racial caste divions of varna, in order to destroy the unity within each janapada.
• Anti-Woman Laws - The Brahmins introduced anti-women laws enforcing sati and dowry in order to eat away at the very foundation of non-Brahmin peoples : their women.
• Encouragement of Foreign Invasions . This policy served to further divide the society by introducing a foreign racial element that would of necessity be hostile to the native majority. At the same time, they would retain absolute Brahmin power, in return for royalty and temporary riches. These invaders, if intolerant of Brahmin power, would then be deposed of, and all trace of their empires erased.

The Greek invasion was entirely the result of these Brahminist policies of divide and rule. The Brahmin Kautilya is the author of the famous Artha-sastra, wherein he sets out in detail the blueprint and Machiavellian policies of an absolutist Brahmin state. Thus, he excelled in the methods of establishing and maintaining absolute Brahminst power. His pupil Candragupta, on his advice, encouraged Alexander the Great to invade India, ostensibly to amass wealth. The actual design of Kautilya's project was to utilise the Greek invaders to overthrow the anti-Brahminist kingdom of Magadha under the Nanda dynasty. Yet, perhaps out of fear of the huge Nanda army, Alexander chose not to follow Kautilya's policy. However, he provided sufficient numbers of troops to aid Candragupta in his plan. Kautilya then utilised his Brahmin propaganda machine to brainwash the masses into rising against the Magadhan Nanda, and overthrew their rule with Greek military aid.

Subsequently, the Bactrian Greeks decided to follow the Kautilyan invitation to Alexander, and also invaded India. In return for preserving the Brahminist grip over bureacracy, religion and learning, the Brahmins supported the Indo-Greek royalty. The large numbers of Greeks provided a useful counterweight to the Indo-Aryans, with reciprocal Greek loyalty to Brahmins being very strong.

2. Buddhist (Seventh) Aryan Invasion

The rise of Brahmanic Buddhism as a corrupt form of Mongoloid Buddhism, with its requirements of strict ascetism and emphasis on `dhamma' (morality) led to the rise of the world's first totalitarian nations, where the state controlled all the intricate details of life of its citizens. One of the first states built on totalitarian Brahmanic Buddhist lines was Magadha. This tyrannical state invaded various nations, establishing a vast system of absolutist rule and laying the foundation for later similar states.

2.1 Totalitarian Nature of the Mauryan Kingdoom of Magadha

System of Espionage
The Mauryan State developed an elaborate system of espionage to terrorrize political opponents, to control the daily lives of individuals and suppress free thought. The minister Chanakya wrote the Arthasastra , the most important Indian treatise of politics prior to the Islamic era, at the Mauryan court. It fully describes the elaborate system of espionage. Basham has described the set-up:

" The text [ Arthasastra ] visualises a country riddled from top to bottom with secret agents or spies. They were organised through `Institutes of Espionage' to which they delivered information, sometimes in cipher, and from which they received their orders. These institutes were not responsible for the whole system of espionage, however, for there were special spies, directly subordinate to the king or a high minister, and empoyed to spy on the ministers themselves."
-- [ Bash.121 ]

Overthrow of Foreign Nations
The external espionage agencies were dedicated to the overthrow of sovereign nations by subversion, encouraging revolts and sedition. Indeed, the external Mauryan spy system was the fore-runner of the CIA, Stalin's KGB and Nazi SS in this regard.

" In the territory of enemies whether potential or actual, he [ the Mauryan spy ] ... encouraged sedition plots and the assassination of the enemy king and his ministers.'
-- [ Bash.122 ]

Ruthless Purge of Political Opponents
Political opponents of the state were ruthlessly purged and exterminated. Assassination was a frequent mode of eliminating rivals, for which specially trained spies were employed:

" [ A Magadhan ] class of spies was that of the desperado, ... whose main duty was the assassination of those enemies of the king for whom a trial was not expedient."
-- [ Bash.121 ]

Absolute Totalitarian Control
Absolute control was maintained through a system of internal spies who supervised the intimate details of the lives of all citizens. These investigators, referred to as `gopas' were analogous to the later system of internal espionage under similar states like the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, etc.

" Thus in Mauryan times every aspect of the life of the individual was watched over, and as far as possible, controlled, by the government ... All mines, ... were owned by the state."
-- [ Bash.101 ]
" [ T ]he conditions in the larger Mauryan cities approximated to those of a modern police state, with the open supervision of the gopas [ petty officials who monitored " the activities of all inhabitants of the cities "- Bash.103 ] supplemented by a vigourous secret service."
-- [ Bash.104 ]

Thus the Mauryan Empire operated as a totalitarian state similar to Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, satisfying all criteria required in the definition of totalitarianism, viz -

• System of Espionage
• Overthrow of Foreign Nations
• Ruthless Purge of Political Opponents
• Absolute Totalitarian Control

2.2 Wars of Aggression

Magadhization of Conquered Lands
A systematic system of Magadhization occurred, which involved the enoforcement of Magadhi language and culture and the attempted obliteration of the previous nationalities. Magadhi language was used as the language in state proclamations and inscriptions. This process was only partially completed on the collapse of the Magadhan Empire, but harmed local cultures, which took centuries to recover. Even to this day most of the literature of the period is in Magadhi (or Pali).

Buddhist Fundamentalism
The consequence of Ashoka's Invasion was to increase the influence of the Aryan religions of Buddhism, Jainism and Vaishnavism. Although the Buddhists and Jains discouraged caste distinctions amongst Aryans, they preserved the Aryan-non-Aryan caste distinction. The Sinhalese systems of slavery, based on Brahmanic-Buddhist fundamentalist tenets, involved the subjugation of the Dravidian Negroes of Sri Lanka, and were based on the Mauryan Buddhist systems. Aryan Prakrit inscriptions are found deep inside Karnataka as a further relic of those times.

2.3 Sinhala Aryan Buddhist Invasion of Sri Lanka

" Long before the arrival of Prince Vijaya, there were in Sri Lanka five recognised isvarams of Siva which claimed and received the adoration of all India. These were Tiruketeeswaram near Mahatitha; Munneswaram dominating Salawatte and the pearl fishery; Tondeswaram near Mantota; Tirkoneswaram near the great bay of Kottiyar and Nakuleswaram near Kankesanturai."
-- [ Pier ] [ cited in Satye ]

Extermination of Lanka Dravidoids
As per the Mahavamsa, the Sinhala chronicle of a later period (6th Century A.D.), Prince Vijaya, the first Aryan Sinhalese king, invaded Sri Lanka on the same day that the Buddha attained Enlightenment in Magadha. It is possible, however, that Buddhism was introduced by a slightly later wave of Aryan invaders. In any case, the bulk of the exterminations of Lanka Dravidas was perpetrated by the Buddhist Aryans. The invasion by Vijaya touched off a long genocide and extermination of the native Dravidians. In fact, the entire native Dravidoid population of Lanka was wholly exterminated , the island being, prior to the advent of Europeans, almost totally of Aryan Sinhalese Buddhist race. The English imported Tamil Dravidian tea labourers, who now represent the bulk of the Dravidian population. Thus, although the original inhabitants of the island were Dravidoid, the present Dravdians of Sri Lanka are recent immigrants.

Buddhist Fundamentalism & Suppression of Dravidian Religion
The Sinhalese Buddhists engaged in wholesale destruction of Dravidian Shaivite shrines and temples. S.J.Gunasegaram in his book 'Trincomalee - the Holy Hill of Siva' has established that Trincomalee was a originally a Shiva shrine that was destroyed by the Aryan Buddhist fanatics [ Trinc ] :

" The earliest reference in the Pali Chronicles of Ceylon to the Saiva shrine at Trincomalee is found in the Mahavamsa (Ch. XXXVII, vv. 40 44). It states that Mahesan 'built also the Manivihara and founded three viharas destroying the temple of the gods the Gokanna, Erukavilla, and another in the village of the Brahman Kalanda'. In a note below Geiger the official translator of the Mahavamsa, states, "according to the Tika, the Gokanna Vihara is situated on the coast of the Eastern sea, the two other Viharas in Ruhuna ... the Tika also adds everywhere in the Island of Lanka he established the doctrine of the Buddha having destroyed the temples or the unbelievers, i.e. having abolished the Phallic symbols of Siva and so forth."
-- [ Trinc ]

In 237 BC the Tamil king Elala usurped the Sinhalese throne, and in revenge, detroyed Buddhist temples of the Aryan invaders. As per the Sinhalese account, " The Tamils, fiercely antagonistic to Buddhism, committed acts of vandalism in the sacred city of Anuradhapura, and, for a time, there was none to deter them. " [ Guru cited in Sinh_b ]. The Tamil king was then overthrown by the Sinhalese prince Abhaya, who came from Southern Sri Lanka. This prince waged a `Holy Buddhist War' to establish Buddhism :

" The war that Gamini Abhaya waged with Elala was so a religious character and he made it known by a solemn proclamation that "this enterprise of mine is not for the purpose of acquiring the pomp and advantages of royalty. This undertaking has always had for its object the re-establishment of the religion of the supreme Buddha . By the truth of this declaration may the arms and equipment of my army in the hour of battle flash, as if emitting the rays of the sun" (Mahavansa, chap. 25)."
-- [ Guru citing Mahavamsa, cited in Sinh_b ]

And the king said, "Lords what peace of mind can there be left to me, when I have been the means of destroying great armies?" And the saints answered "Supreme of men, from the commission of that act there will be no impediment in the road to salvation. Herein no more than two human beings have been sacrificed; the rest are heretics and sinners, who are on a par with wild beasts. And as thou wilt cause the religion of Buddha to shine forth in great splendour, on that account, O ruler of men, subdue thy mental affliction!" (Mahavansa, chap, 25). Thus was the king consoled."
-- [ Guru cited in Sinh_b ]

3. Eighth Aryan Invasion