Author : Rajesh Kochhar
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,49 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN :
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.
Author : Koenraad Elst
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 12,7 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
This book on the developing arguments concerning the Aryan Invasion Theory consists of adapted versions of papers the author has read:the first at the World Association of Vedic Studies (WAVES)conference on the Indus-Saraswati civilization in Atlanta 1996,the third at the 1996 Annual South Asia conference in Madison,Wisconsin and in a lecture at the Linguistics Department in Madison;the fifth contains material used in author?s paper read at the second WAVES conference in Los Angeles 1998;the second and fourth were read at lectures for the Belgo-Indian Association,Brussels,and at the Etnografisch Museum,Antewerp.
Author : Edwin Bryant
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 38,55 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0195169476
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 : Koenraad Elst
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 27,99 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9788173056048
Author : Subrata Chattopadhyay Banerjee
Publisher : Springer
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 27,29 MB
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811377570
This book delves deep into the Social Construction of Theory, comparative epistemology and intellectual history to stress the interrelationship between diverse cultures during the colonial period and bring forth convincing evidence of how the 19th century was shaped. It approaches an interesting relation between the linguistic studies of 19th century’s scientific world and subsequent widespread acceptance of the empirically weak theory of the Aryan invasion. To show entangled history in a globalized world, the book draws on the Aryan Invasion Theory to highlight how different socio-religious parties commonly shape a new theory. It also explores how research is affected by the so-called social construction of theory and comparative epistemology, and deals with scholarly advancement and its relation with contemporary socio-political demands. The most significant conclusion of the book is that academic studies are prone to comparative epistemology, even under the strict scrutiny of the so-called scientific methods.
Author : David Frawley
Publisher : South Asia Books
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 11,83 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9788185990200
Author : Navaratna Srinivasa Rajaram
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 21,23 MB
Release : 1995
Category : India
ISBN :
Author : Thomas R. Trautmann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 18,65 MB
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520917928
"Aryan," a word that today evokes images of racial hatred and atrocity, was first used by Europeans to suggest bonds of kinship, as Thomas Trautmann shows in his far-reaching history of British Orientalism and the ethnology of India. When the historical relationship uniting Sanskrit with the languages of Europe was discovered, it seemed clear that Indians and Britons belonged to the same family. Thus the Indo-European or Aryan idea, based on the principle of linguistic kinship, dominated British ethnological inquiry. In the nineteenth century, however, an emergent biological "race science" attacked the authority of the Orientalists. The spectacle of a dark-skinned people who were evidently civilized challenged Victorian ideas, and race science responded to the enigma of India by redefining the Aryan concept in narrowly "white" racial terms. By the end of the nineteenth century, race science and Orientalism reached a deep and lasting consensus in regard to India, which Trautmann calls "the racial theory of Indian civilization," and which he undermines with his powerful analysis of colonial ethnology in India. His work of reassessing British Orientalism and the Aryan idea will be of great interest to historians, anthropologists, and cultural critics.
Author : Shrikant G. Talageri
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,65 MB
Release : 1993
Category : India
ISBN : 9788185990026
On the evidence that Aryans originated from northern India, based on Vedic literature
Author : J. P. Mallory
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 31,26 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781884964985
The Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture is a major new reference work that provides full, inclusive coverage of the major Indo-European language stocks, their origins, and the range of the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European language. The Encyclopedia also includes numerous entries on archaeological cultures having some relationship to the origin and dispersal of Indo-European groups -- as well as entries on some of the major issues in Indo-European cultural studies.There are two kinds of entries in the Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture: a) those that are devoted to archaeology, culture, or the various Indo -European languages; and b) those that are devoted to the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European words.Entries may be accessed either via the General Index or the List of Topics: Entries by Category where all individual reconstructed head-forms can also be found. Reference may also be made to the Language Indices.In order to make the book as accessible as possible to the non-specialist, the Editors have provided a list of Abbreviations and Definitions, which includes a number of definitions of specialist terms (primarily linguistic) with which readers may not be acquainted. As the writing systems of many Indo-European groups vary considerably in terms of phonological representation, there is also included a list of Phonetic Definitions.With more than 700 entries, written by specialists from around the world, the Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture has become an essential reference text in this field.
