[PDF] The Problem Of Aryan Origins From An Indian Point Of View eBook

Author : Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna
Publisher :
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 33,96 MB
Release : 1992
Category : India
ISBN :

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This volume takes up ?from an Indian Point of View? a cluster of important historical questions about India?s most ancient past and formulates fresh answers to them in great detail with the temper of a scrupulous scholar.This edition, extensively enlarged with five supplements,demonstrates for the period after 1980 at still greater length ? with the same tools of widespread scholarship the validity of the first edition?s thesis.

Author : Edwin Francis Bryant
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 13,63 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700714636

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The articles in this survey of the Indo-Aryan controversy address questions such as: are the Indo-Aryans insiders or outsiders?

Author : Edwin Bryant
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,66 MB
Release : 2001-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199881332

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Western 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.

Author : Thomas R. Trautmann
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 20,61 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN :

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This book, the seventh in the Debates series, brings together a selection of significant essays on the extremely topical Aryan debate. The central question behind this selection is, did the Sanskrit-speaking Aryans enter India from the Northwest in 1500 BC, or were they indigenous to India and identical with the people who inhabited the Indus Valley between 2800 - 1500.

Author : Ram Sharan Sharma
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 21,85 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9788125006312

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Who were the Aryans? Where did they come from? Did they always live in India? The Aryan problem has been attracting fresh attention in academic, social and political arenas. This book identifies the main traits of Aryan culture and follows the spread of their cultural markers. Using the latest archaeological evidence and the earliest known Indo-European inscriptions on the social and economic features of Aryan society, the distinguished historian, R. S. Sharma, throws fresh light on the current debate on whether or not the Aryans were the indigenous inhabitants of India. This book is essential reading for those interested in the history of India and its culture.

Author : Edwin Bryant
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 30,80 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0195169476

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This work studies how Indian scholars have rejected the idea of an external origin of the Indo-Aryans, by questioning the logic assumptions and methods upon which the theory is based.

Author : Rajesh Kochhar
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 20,49 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
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In The Vedic People, well-known astro-physicist Rajesh Kochhar provides answers to some quintessential questions of ancient Indian history. Drawing upon and synthesizing data from a wide variety of fields linguistics and literature, natural history, archaeology, history of technology, geomorphology and astronomy Kochhar presents a bold hypotheses by which he seeks to resolve several paradoxes that have plagued the professional historian and archaeologist alike.