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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Bryant, Edwin F. (Edwin Francis), 1957- Quest for the origins of Vedic culture. New York : Oxford University Press, 2001 (DLC) 99086274 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Edwin F Bryant |
ISBN: | 0195137779 9780195137774 0195169476 9780195169478 |
OCLC Number: | 70735976 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 387 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents: | 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. |
Responsibility: | Edwin Bryant. |
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"A balanced description and evaluation of the two century old debate dealing with the origins of the Indo-Aryan speaking peoples of South Asia. [Bryant] presents both sides of the issue, that is the traditional western, linguistic, and philological consensus of immigration from Central Asia, and the more recent Indian position that denies any immigration and that asserts an indigenous South Asian origin. He probes for loopholes on both sides of the argument andpresents the multi-faceted evidence from linguistics, archaeology, texts, etc. in an even-handed manner. As such, the book not only is an important and very welcome introduction into recent Indian historical thought but also a valuable heuristic tool in re-evaluating many of the unspoken or un-reflectedpresuppositions on both sides."-Michael Witzel, Harvard University "The problem of Indo-Aryan origins has vexed scholars in both India and the West for well over a century and has touched every nerve of both academic and political discourse, so much so that many in the West have automatically dismissed any arguments to come 'out of India'[this book] investigates how these two worlds of scholarship came into being and systematically exposes the logical weaknesses of most of the arguments that support the consensus f either side. This is not only an important work in the field of Indo-Aryan studies but a long overdue challenge for scholarly fair play."-J.P. Mallory, Queen's University of Belfast Read more...

