Guest guest Posted May 20, 2001 Report Share Posted May 20, 2001 May I invite diversity of opinion on the following specific question? If India is the original home of the Aryans, when did the Avestan branch separate and migrate out? Rajesh Kochhar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 20, 2001 Report Share Posted May 20, 2001 INDOLOGY, "Rajesh Kochhar" <rkk@N...> wrote: > May I invite diversity of opinion on the following specific question? > > If India is the original home of the Aryans, when did the Avestan branch separate and migrate out? > > Rajesh Kochhar The hypothesis that "India is the original home of the Aryans" is losing ground even among the lay public of high caste Indians. A recent notable development, that may make Indologists little happy, is that not many proponents of OIT among amateurs and youngsters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 20, 2001 Report Share Posted May 20, 2001 INDOLOGY, smadhuresan2000 wrote: > INDOLOGY, "Rajesh Kochhar" <rkk@N...> wrote: > > May I invite diversity of opinion on the following specific > question? > > > > If India is the original home of the Aryans, when did the Avestan > branch separate and migrate out? > > > > Rajesh Kochhar > > The hypothesis that "India is the original home of the Aryans" > is losing ground even among the lay public of high caste > Indians. A recent notable development, that may make Indologists > little happy, is that not many proponents of OIT among amateurs and > youngsters. It is all a matter of definition of who aryans are. Generally Indians believe aryans are those who were the creators of vedic corpus and vedic culture. What or who or where the ancestors of those created the vedic culture were or how they looked like, what their genes were, what was their DNA composition etc are wholly irrelevant to the traditionalist. It is matter of semantics. The only historically known aryans , from an Indian point of view lived in India, which includes the Indian sub- continent and Afghanistan. A traditionalist goes by what tradition and ancestors say , not what Indological theory says. Since only a small portion of Indians are Indologists, we cannot presume that Indians buy latest Indological theories and take it as true and nothing but true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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