[ SOCIAL SCIENTIST water near Gujarat coast and its similarity with Harappan civilisation, all these new discoveries establishing full identity of the Harappan civilisation with Vedic civilisation, demand a re-examination of Aryan Race and Invasion Theory." The Baba Saheb Apte Smarak Samiti and the Bharatiya Itihasa Sankalan Yojana (both associated with Hindutva fronts) have jointly undertaken the task of rewriting history for quite some time now. The Samiti has selected two themes—the Aryans and the Search of the Lost Saraswati. They decided at Kurukshetra in 1983 to launch a month-long "Survey of the Saraswati" programme from 20th December 1985. The Samiti aimed at exploring the Saraswati valley to search archaeological remains, their association with Puranic legends, their remembrance among folk songs and tales, and their socio-religious, ethnic, and other associations. The programme was carried out under the leadership of V.S. Wakankar by moving across Haryana, Rajasthan and Gujarat, visiting Adbadri, Kurukshetra, Hanumangarh, Anupgarh, Bikaner, Pokaran, Jaisalmer, Barmer, Sirohi, Patan, Bagodhra, Sihor and Somnath, in search of the imagined course of the Saraswati to substantiate the literary as well as the local tradition (Lupta Saraswati Nadi Shodh, Shri Baba Apte Smarak Samiti, Nagpur, 1992). The above effort looked for weaving the local traditions of Saraswati nadi in Haryana, Rajasthan and Gujarat and substantiating their hypothesis with archaeological effort. Geological support to the above myth was sought to be provided by P.C. Bakliwal and A.K. Grover of the Geological Survey of India, Jaipur ("Signatures and Migration of Saraswati River in Thar Desert, Western India." In Rec. Geol. Surv. Ind., Vol.16. Pts.3-8. 77-86, 1988). The authors have grossly misread the data from remote sensing of the Indian desert and constructed the palaeohistory of the "Saraswati" (Ghaggar) by connecting all sorts of local undated channels with its supposed six earlier courses in Rajasthan before it took the present course. More recently, Voice of India, New Delhi, has published Aryan Invasion of India (1993) and the Politics of History (1995), by Navratna S. Rajaram. The books try to emphasize that there was no Aryan Movement into India. Instead the Indian Aryans migrated into Iran, Mesopotamia and Europe after 1900 B.C. Shereen Ratnagar has reviewed the books competently and shown the way the "revisionists" are at work (Frontline, February 9,1996). I must make it clear that it is not the job of an archaeologist to substantiate tradition. Temptation to mix literary imagination with archaeological reality is bound to lead to distortion and misuse of the scientific discipline for commercial and ideological ends. It has serious repercussion on the direction and methodology of archaeology. Planning in archaeology has to be based on serious academic considerations, assigning