The Indo-aryan Controversy: Evidence and Inference in Indian History

by Bryant, Edwin; Patton, Laurie

• ISBN13: 9780203641880
• ISBN10: 0203641884
• Copyright: 2004-06-30
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

For the first time in a single volume, this book presents the various arguments in the Indo-Aryan controversy.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Archaeology

Culture Change During the Late Harappan Period at Harappa: New Insights on Vedic Aryan Issues

Aryan Invasion of India: Perpetuation of a

South Asian Archaeology and the Myth of Indo-Aryan Invasions

Archaeology and Linguistics

The Cultural Counterparts to Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic and Proto-Aryan: Matching the Dispersal and Contact Patterns in the Linguistic and Archaeological Record Asko Parpola and Christian Carpelan

Archaeology and Language: The Case of the Bronze Age Indo-Iranians

Philology and Linguistics

The Date of the Rigveda and the Aryan Migration (Fresh Linguistic Evidence) Satya Swarup Misra

Linguistic Aspects of the Aryan Non-Invasion Theory Koenraad Elst

Philology and the Historical Interpretation of the Vedic Texts Hans Henrich Hock

Vedic Astronomy and Early Indian Chronology Subash Kak

The Textual Evidence: The Rigveda as a Source of Indo-European History Shrikant Talageri

Indocentrism: Autochthonous Visions of Ancient India

Historiography

Aryan Origins: Arguments from 19th Century Maharashtra

Aryan Past and Post-Colonial Present: The Polemics and Politics of Indigenous Aryanism Lars Martin Fosse Concluding Remarks

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