ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|85 pages
Archaeology
chapter 1|29 pages
Culture Change During the Late Harappan Period at Harappa
New Insights on Vedic Aryan Issues
part II|72 pages
Archaeology and Linguistics
chapter 4|35 pages
The Cultural Counterparts to Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic and Proto-Aryan
Matching the dispersal and contact patterns in the linguistic and archaeological record
part III|225 pages
Philology and Linguistics
part IV|101 pages
Historiography
chapter 13|34 pages
Aryan Past and Post-Colonial Present
The polemics and politics of indigenous Aryanism
