Update on the Aryan Invasion DebateThis book on the developing arguments concerning the Aryan Invasion Theory consists of adapted versions of papers the author has read:the first at the World Association of Vedic Studies (WAVES)conference on the Indus-Saraswati civilization in Atlanta 1996,the third at the 1996 Annual South Asia conference in Madison,Wisconsin and in a lecture at the Linguistics Department in Madison;the fifth contains material used in author?s paper read at the second WAVES conference in Los Angeles 1998;the second and fourth were read at lectures for the Belgo-Indian Association,Brussels,and at the Etnografisch Museum,Antewerp. |
Contents
ASTRONOMIC DATA AND THE ARYAN QUESTION | 89 |
LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF THE INDOEUROPEAN | 118 |
MISCELLANEOUS ASPECTS OF THE ARYAN INVASION DEBATE | 159 |
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