Format:
xi, 387 p. S.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0195137779
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0195169476
Content:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-379) and index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-379) and index
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""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Myths of Origin: Europe and the Aryan Homeland Quest""; ""Biblical Origins""; ""India, the Cradle of Civilization""; ""The Aryans and Colonial and Missionary Discourse""; ""German Aryanism""; ""Two Centuries of Homeland Theories""; ""Present-Day Homeland Hypotheses""; ""Conclusion""; ""2. Early Indian Responses""; ""Hindu Nationalist Responses""; ""The First Reactions: Hindu Religious Leaders""; ""Conclusion""; ""3. Vedic Philology""; ""The Racial Evidence""; ""The West-to-East Geographic Shift in Sanskrit Texts""; ""Conclusion""
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""4. Indo-European Comparative Linguistics: The Dethronement of Sanskrit""""The Law of Palatals and the Discovery of Hittite""; ""Objections from India""; ""Conclusion""; ""5. Linguistic Substrata in Sanskrit Texts""; ""Linguistic Innovations in Sanskrit""; ""Evidence of the Loanwords""; ""Terms for Flora in Indic Languages""; ""Place-Names and River Names""; ""Indo-Aryan, or Dravidian and Munda Migrations?""; ""Conclusion""; ""6. Linguistic Paleontology""; ""Flora and Fauna""; ""The Horse""; ""Criticisms of the Method""; ""Conclusion""; ""7. Linguistic Evidence from outside of India""
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""Semitic Loans in Indo-European: Nicholsâ€?s Model""""Finno-Ugric Loans""; ""Other Traces of Indo-Aryan""; ""The Avestan Evidence""; ""The Mitanni Treaties""; ""Conclusion""; ""8. The Viability of a South Asian Homeland""; ""Center of Origin Method""; ""Dialectical Subgroupings: Gamkrelidze and Ivanovâ€?s Model""; ""Nicholsâ€?s Sogdiana Model""; ""Conclusion""; ""9. The Indus Valley Civilization""; ""Indra Stands Accused""; ""The Religion of the Indus Valley""; ""The Sarasvatī""; ""The Horse""; ""The Chariot""; ""The Indus Script""; ""Urbanity and the Rgveda""; ""Conclusion""
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""10. Aryans in the Archaeological Record: The Evidence outside the Subcontinent""""Identifying Aryans""; ""The Northern Route""; ""The Southern Route""; ""Two Wave Theories""; ""Conclusion""; ""11. Aryans in the Archaeological Record: The Evidence inside the Subcontinent""; ""Gandhara Grave Culture""; ""Jhukar Culture""; ""Cemetery H Culture""; ""Painted Gray Ware Culture""; ""Aryans in the Skeletal Record""; ""Continuity and Innovation""; ""Conclusion""; ""12. The Date of the Veda""; ""Dating Proto-Indo-European""; ""Dating the Veda""; ""Astronomy and Vedic Chronology""
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""The Mathematics of the Śulvasautras""""Conclusion""; ""13. Aryan Origins and Modern Nationalist Discourse""; ""Nationalism and Historiography: General Comments""; ""The Aryans in Hindutva Ideology""; ""Stereotypes and Counterstereotypes""; ""Discourses of Suspicion""; ""Conclusion""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""
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Electronic reproduction Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195169478
Additional Edition:
Print version Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : The Indo-Aryan Migration Debate
Language:
English
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