The Indo-Aryan Controversy: Evidence and Inference in Indian HistoryEdwin Francis Bryant, Edwin Bryant, Laurie L. Patton For the first time in a single volume, this book presents the various arguments in the Indo-Aryan controversy. It also provides a template for the basic issues addressing four major areas: archaeological research, linguistic issues, the interpretation of Vedic texts in their historical contexts, and ideological roots. The volume ends with a plea for a return to civility in the debates which have become increasingly, and unproductively, politicized, and suggests a program of research and inquiry upon which scholars from all sides of the debate might embark. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Archaeology | 17 |
perpetuation of a myth | 50 |
South Asian archaeology and the myth | 75 |
The cultural counterparts to ProtoIndoEuropean | 107 |
Age IndoIranians | 142 |
Linguistic aspects of the Aryan noninvasion theory | 234 |
Philology and the historical interpretation of the Vedic texts | 282 |
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