The quest for the origins of Vedic culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate /
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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Myths of origin: Europe and the Aryan homeland quest.
- Early Indian response.
- Vedic philology.
- Indo-European comparative linguistics: the dethronement of Sanskrit.
- Linguistic substrata in Sanskrit texts.
- Linguistic paleontology.
- Linguistic evidence from outside India.
- The viability of a South Asian homeland.
- The Indus Valley civilization.
- Aryans in the archaeological records: the evidence outside the subcontinent.
- Aryans in the archaeological records: the evidence inside the subcontinent.
- The date of the Veda.
- Aryan origins and modern nationalist discourse.