Source Texts for AMT Debate?

[Guest guest]

I have recently returned to Indology and I am very

intrigued by the controversy over the AMT. I would

like to evaluate the basic source materials regarding

this area and I would be most thankful if the members

of this forum would share with me their

recommendations about useful sources of information. I

was thinking a list of books and other resources on

the following topics (plus others I may have missed)

might be useful to all:

 

•Dating of the vedic literatures and their recensions;

• Principles and history of Linguistics as relevant to

the AMT;

• Archeological, anthropological, geological, textual

and other evidence related to South Asia and the other

areas of the Indo-European expansion;

• Major theorists on both sides of the fence;

• Major Vedic texts and secondary sources;

• Other resources like web sites, online archives of

texts, etc.

 

Regarding languages, English is naturally preferable.

But valuable texts in other languages would also be

interesting. Personally, German is workable. French

and Hindi are possible but problematical (especially

in these technical fields.) Sanskrit is neccessary

although translations and especially dual-language

versions are appreciated.

 

Where possible, please include preferred translations,

publisher, and date of publication.

 

Namaste,

 

Michael Donne, PhD

[Guest guest]

You will find a useful bibliography via the following webpage (go to

section III)

 

http://www.voi.org/vishal_agarwal/What_is_AMT.html

 

This will answer SOME, but not all of your questions.

 

Regards

 

Vishal

[Guest guest]

INDOLOGY, michael_donne wrote:

> I have recently returned to Indology and I am very

> intrigued by the controversy over the AMT.

 

Please look into Prof. Witzel's message to this list:

INDOLOGY/message/831

 

A summary of this debate is in his 93-page long papper,

available in .pdf format.

 

Regards,

N. Ganesan