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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... cognate languages necessitate an original protoform spoken by a group of people inhabiting a reasonably delineated geographic area, the problem has resulted in a massive amount of scholarship attempting to reconstruct this protolanguage ...
... cognate languages necessitate an original protoform spoken by a group of people inhabiting a reasonably delineated geographic area, the problem has resulted in a massive amount of scholarship attempting to reconstruct this protolanguage ...
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... cognate languages. Chapter 5 analyzes the evidence for a nonIndoAryan linguistic substratum in Sanskrit texts, which has remained perhaps the principal and, to my mind, most persuasive reason brought forward in support of the Aryan ...
... cognate languages. Chapter 5 analyzes the evidence for a nonIndoAryan linguistic substratum in Sanskrit texts, which has remained perhaps the principal and, to my mind, most persuasive reason brought forward in support of the Aryan ...
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... cognate languages evolve from a reasonably standardized protoform (provided this is allowed considerable dialectal variation) that was spoken during a certain period of human history and culture in a somewhat condensed geographic area ...
... cognate languages evolve from a reasonably standardized protoform (provided this is allowed considerable dialectal variation) that was spoken during a certain period of human history and culture in a somewhat condensed geographic area ...
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... cognate languages got to be where they were in prehistory is as unresolved today, in my mind, as it was two hundred years ago when William Jones announced the Sanskrit language connection to a surprised Europe. The Indigenous Aryan ...
... cognate languages got to be where they were in prehistory is as unresolved today, in my mind, as it was two hundred years ago when William Jones announced the Sanskrit language connection to a surprised Europe. The Indigenous Aryan ...
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... cognate languages, which, in keeping with the Romantic worldview, indicated that it was more “original” than Greek and the other cognate languages. Lord Monboddo, (1774), for example, felt that he would “be able clearly to prove that ...
... cognate languages, which, in keeping with the Romantic worldview, indicated that it was more “original” than Greek and the other cognate languages. Lord Monboddo, (1774), for example, felt that he would “be able clearly to prove that ...
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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