The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture: The Indo-Aryan Migration DebateWestern scholars have argued that Indian civilization was the joint product of an invading Indo-European people--the "Indo-Aryans"--and indigenous non-Indo European peoples. Although Indian scholars reject this European reconstruction of their country's history, Western scholarship gives little heed to their argument. In this book, Edwin Bryant explores the nature and origins of this fascinating debate. |
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... arguments were raised against this proposal, and Indian civilization was construed as the joint product of an invading IndoEuropean people—the IndoAryan branch of the family—and indigenous nonIndoEuropean peoples. Yet although taking it ...
... arguments were raised against this proposal, and Indian civilization was construed as the joint product of an invading IndoEuropean people—the IndoAryan branch of the family—and indigenous nonIndoEuropean peoples. Yet although taking it ...
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... arguments that I examine. The scholars referred to by this term all share a conviction that the theory of an external origin of the IndoAryan speaking people on the Indian subcontinent has been constructed on flimsy or false assumptions ...
... arguments that I examine. The scholars referred to by this term all share a conviction that the theory of an external origin of the IndoAryan speaking people on the Indian subcontinent has been constructed on flimsy or false assumptions ...
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... arguments into a “traditionalist” framework, with the corollary that such material was an encounter or response to modernity, but not all the scholars in my target group are traditionally oriented at all; nor do they all by any means ...
... arguments into a “traditionalist” framework, with the corollary that such material was an encounter or response to modernity, but not all the scholars in my target group are traditionally oriented at all; nor do they all by any means ...
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... on, that were used to construct it in the first place. Obviously, in so doing it has been coopted into a Western critical paradigm and has adopted the vocabulary and conceptual structures of the discourse (indeed, all of the arguments.
... on, that were used to construct it in the first place. Obviously, in so doing it has been coopted into a Western critical paradigm and has adopted the vocabulary and conceptual structures of the discourse (indeed, all of the arguments.
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... arguments considered here are from English medium publications).2 It is nonetheless an attempt to reclaim control over indigenous affairs—in this case the writing of Indian history —from the power of scholars who are perceived as being ...
... arguments considered here are from English medium publications).2 It is nonetheless an attempt to reclaim control over indigenous affairs—in this case the writing of Indian history —from the power of scholars who are perceived as being ...
Contents
Early Indian Responses | |
Vedic Philology | |
Linguistic Substrata in Sanskrit Texts | |
Linguistic Evidence from outside of India | |
The Viability of a South Asian Homeland | |
The Indus Valley Civilization | |
The Evidence | |
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