Update on the Aryan Invasion Debate (English)

Chapters

Preface

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1.1  Politicizing a Linguistic Theory

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1.2  The Aryan Invasion Theory in Indian Politics

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1.3  Politicization as an Obstacle to Research

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1.4  A Case Study in AIT Polemic

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1.5  Some Red Herrings

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1.6  Conclusion

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2.1  Dating the Rg-Veda

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2.2  Ancient Hindu Astronomy

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2.3  The Precession of the Equinox

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2.4  Additional Astronomical Indications

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2.5  Conclusion

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3.1  Introduction

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3.2  Origin of the Linguistic Argument

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3.3  Direct Geographical Clues

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3.4  Exchanges with other Languages Families

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3.5  Conclusion

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4.1  Demographical common sense

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4.2  Textual Evidence

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4.3  Where did the Kurgan People come from?

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4.4  The Horse Evidence

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4.5  Vedic Aryans in West Asia

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4.6  Memory of the Urheimat

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4.7  Indra and Shiva

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4.8  Invasionist terms in the Vedas

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4.9  The Evidence from physical anthropology

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5.1  A Remarkable book

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5.2  Evidence provided by physical anthropology

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5.3  The Archaeological Evidence

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5.4  Linguistic Arguments

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5.5  The Evidence from Comparative Religion

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5.6  Conclusion

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6.1  Some false problems

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6.2  Things to do

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6.3  The Non-invasionist Model

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