Bhim Singh Dahiya
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Bhim Singh Dahiya (1940 - 2000) (Hindi: भीमसिंह दहिया) was a historian and civil servant belonging to the Indian Revenue Service (IRS). He was born at village Sehri, District Sonipat in Haryana, India around March 19, 1940 (though official records put his birth date as 29th of September, 1940).
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Career
Bhim Singh Dahiya did his B.Sc. studies from Punjab University and an M.A. from Delhi University. He was selected for Indian Revenue Service in 1963, having taken the IAS (Indian Administrative Service) examination with English and history as his chosen areas. He had great admiration for the works of William Shakespeare, loved to read historical studies with a particular interest in Indo-European cultures and languages, and excelled at playing cards. He retired from Govt. service as Chief Commissioner of Income tax in 1998.
Books on history by Bhim Singh Dahiya
Jats the Ancient Rulers (A clan study)
In 1982, he wrote the monumental book- Jats the Ancient Rulers (A clan study), published by Dahinam Publishers, Sonipat, Haryana. This book is a reconstruction of the History of Jats from time immemorial. His linkage of the clan names/ Gotras to the existence of the Jats in Central Asia, and Europe, put a stamp on the histography of the Jat History, for the people who could not have access to the works in Hindi or Urdu.
He brought out to the layman reader, that Chandragupta Maurya, the Kushans, the second Guptas, and Harshavardhana were Jats. He showed by applying Grimm's Law, how the G letter was a substitution for the J sound, as the J letter did not exist in the ancient Greek alphabet. The significance was in determining who the Guti were, whom the Chinese and Western and most Indian Historians know as the ‘Yuezhi’, but are Jats, of whom Kushans were just one clan, not a people unto themselves.
Aryan Tribes and the Rig Veda
In 1992, he brought out his next book- Aryan Tribes and the Rig Veda, published by Dahinam Publishers, Sonipat, Haryana. Here he demonstrated how over 80 Jat Goths, Gotras, clans could be traced back to the Rig Veda. The Rig Veda is treated as a historical record of deeds and memories of the Indo-European tribes in India, rather than religious prayers it was generally assumed to be earlier.
History of Hindustan
His third great work in the history is in the form of Book- History of Hindustan Vol. I, II, III. Dahinam Publishers, Sonipat, Haryana also published it.
Papers published by him
He published a paper titled The Mauryas: Their Identity (Vishveshvaranand Indological Journal, Vol. 17 (1979), p.112-133) in 1979 wherein he concludes that the Mauryas were the Muras or rather Mors and were Jat of Scythian or Indo-Scythian origin. It is claimed that the Jats still have Maur or Maud as one of their clan name. Consequently Ashoka, Chandragupta and all other emperors of Mauryan dynasty were Scythian Jats. The Jat immigrants are close kin of the ancient Gutians of Sumer and the Goths or Gots known in Latin as Getae.[1]
Abbreviations used in B S Dahiya's books
- AA - Ariana Antique
- ABORI - Annals of Bhandarkar Oriental *Research Institute, Poona,
- AIS - Alberuni's India, by Sachau.
- AIG - The Age of Imperial Guptas.
- AIU - The Age of Imperial Unity.
- AN&M - The Age of Nandas and Mauryas.
- ASR - Archaeological Survey (of *India) Reports.
- ASI - Archaeological Survey of India.
- ASIAR - Archaeological Survey of India *Annual Reports.
- Ait. Br. - Aitereya Brahmana.
- AMMK - Arya Manjusri Mula Kalpa (K.P. Jayaswal). In Imperial History of India.
- BBKI - Brihad Bharat Ka Itihas (2 Vol. in Hindi) by Bhagvata Datta.
- Bmd P. - Brahmanda Purana.
- Br, - Brahmana.
- BSOAS - Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London).
- BRWW - Buddhist Records of the Western World, by S. Beal.
- CAH - Cambridge Ancient History.
- CII - (or Corp. Ins. Ind.) Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum.
- CCIM - Catalogue of the Coins in the Indian Museum, Calcutta (V.A. Smith, 1906).
- DKI - The Purana Text of the Dynasties of Kali Age (F.E. Pargiter).
- DS - Daivata Samhita, by S.D. Satavalekar, 1943 (4 Vol. in Hindi).
- DHNI - Dynastic History of North India (H.C. Ray).
- EHI - Early History of India (V.A. Smith).
- EHNI - Ethnic History of North India (S. Chatopadhyaya).
- EB - Encyclopaedia Brittanica.
- EI - Epigraphica Indica.
- ESM - Eransahr Nach der Geographic des Ps Moses (or Eransahr) Xorenac-i, by J. Marquart, Berlin 1901.
- HC - Harshacharita by Bag a Bhatta.
- HCIP - History and Culture of Indian People.(Majumdar and Pusalkar).
- HHC- Heou Han Chau (History of later Han Dynasty by Fan ye).
- HIOH - History of India, as told by its Own Historians (Elliot and Dowson).
- HVI - Hindi (Translation of) Vedic Index of Macdonnell & Keith by Ram Kumar Rai 1962).
- IA -Indian Antiquary.
- IC - Indian Culture, Calcutta.
- IHQ - Indian Historical Quarterly.
- Invasion - Invasion of India by Alexander the Great by J.W. Me Crindle.
- ICR - Indian Coins (by Rapson, E.J.)-
- JA - Journal Asiatique,
- JAOS - Journal of American Oriental Society.
- JASB - Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal.
- JBBRAS - Journal of Bombay Branch of Royal Asiatic Society.
- JBORS Journal of Bihar and Orissa Research Society.
- JIH - Journal of Indian History.
- JNSI - Journal of Numismatic Society of India.
- JRAS - Journal of Royal Asiatic Society.
- JKI - Jat Kshatriya Itihas (in Hindi) by Y. P. Shastri (1944).
- JPASB - Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.
- KSIU - Kushan Studies in USSR (B. Gafurov & others, Calcutta 1970).
- MAKI - Madhya Asia Ka Itihas (2 Vol. in Hindi by Rahula Sankrityayana).
- MASI - Memoirs of Archaeological Survey of India.
- MBT - Mahabharata.
- Mark. - Markandeya Purana.
- NHIP - New History of Indian People.
- P. - Purana,
- PIHC - Proceedings of Indian History Congress. Person English Dictionary (F, Steingass) 1930 London.
- PHAI - Political History of Ancient India (H. C. Ray-Chowdhary).
- P& SM - Political and Social Movements in Ancient Punjab, by Buddha Prakash.
- RSCE - Rise and Splendour of the Chinese Empire (by R. Grousset, London, 1952). Rajat Rajatarangini of Kalhana, by A. Stein.
- SBAW - Sitzungsberielite der Pressischen Akademie der Wis-.sen-Schaften (Berlin).
- SIH&C - Studies in Indian History and Civilisation by Buddha Prakash.
- SED - A Sanskrit-English Dictionary by M. Monier-Williams (Oxford 1960).
- VIJ - Vishveshvaranand Indological Journal (Hoshiarpur, Pb.).
- Vayiu - Vayu Purana
- VGA - The Vakitaka-Gupta Age.
- VS - Vikrama Samvat (Era of 58 B.C.)
- Tribes and Castes - A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes in Punjab and N.W. Frontier—compiled by A.C. Rose, , Punjab Language Dept. Edn.)
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