Update on the Aryan Invasion Debate

Preface → 1.1  Politicizing a Linguistic Theory → 1.2  The Aryan Invasion Theory in Indian Politics → 1.3  Politicization as an Obstacle to Research → 1.4  A Case Study in AIT Polemic → 1.5  Some Red Herrings → 1.6  Conclusion → 2.1  Dating the Rg-Veda → 2.2  Ancient Hindu Astronomy → 2.3  The Precession of the Equinox → 2.4  Additional Astronomical Indications → 2.5  Conclusion → 3.1  Introduction → 3.2  Origin of the Linguistic Argument → 3.3  Direct Geographical Clues → 3.4  Exchanges with other Languages Families → 3.5  Conclusion → 4.1  Demographical common sense → 4.2  Textual Evidence → 4.3  Where did the Kurgan People come from? → 4.4  The Horse Evidence → 4.5  Vedic Aryans in West Asia → 4.6  Memory of the Urheimat → 4.7  Indra and Shiva → 4.8  Invasionist terms in the Vedas → 4.9  The Evidence from physical anthropology → 5.1  A Remarkable book → 5.2  Evidence provided by physical anthropology → 5.3  The Archaeological Evidence → 5.4  Linguistic Arguments → 5.5  The Evidence from Comparative Religion → 5.6  Conclusion → 6.1  Some false problems → 6.2  Things to do → 6.3  The Non-invasionist Model →