Harappan Horse, an article by Dr. Nagaswamy

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Dear Indologists,

 

See in the URL the recent article by Dr. R. Nagaswamy

on the Harappan horse in the newspaper, The Hindu.

cybalist/message/12910

 

Regards,

N. Ganesan

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INDOLOGY, "Harsha Dehejia" <hdehejia@c...> wrote:

> There seems to be an error in the url given by Dr. Ganesan for the article

> on the Harappan horse. I shall be grateful if he could give it one more

> time.

 

Dear Dr. Dehejia,

 

Here is our friend Dr. Nagaswamy's article from The Hindu:

CTamil/message/819

 

I gave in a disk Prof. Witzel's summary paper

some months ago to Dr. Nagaswamy when he

was visiting Houston. The paper is

Autochtonous Aryans? The Evidence from Old Indian and Iranian

Texts. When asked about Smt. Vidya's Devi book,

Dr. RN said kind words.

 

Regards,

N. Ganesan

[Guest guest]

>>the article

>> on the Harappan horse.

>Here is our friend Dr. Nagaswamy's article from The Hindu:

>CTamil/message/819

 

Unfortunately the article is quite uninformed and mistaken, a strange thing

for a professional archaeologist.

 

See my and (R. Meadow's) answer at:

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/Har-veda.htm

 

 

This web site also contains the complete ongoing discussion in the THE

HINDU (Jan.-March 2002) about the supposed close relationship between the

Harappan Civilization and the Vedas. This was brought up, of course, by

N.S. Rajaram in habitual fashion, and was then taken up for discussion by

me and others.

 

>I gave in a disk Prof. Witzel's summary paper

>some months ago to Dr. Nagaswamy when he

>was visiting Houston. The paper is

>Autochtonous Aryans? The Evidence from Old Indian and Iranian

>Texts.

NB: see : http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/ejvs-new.htm

or: http://users.primushost.com/~india/ejvs/issues.html Vol. 7-3 May 2001

 

 

Cheers! MW

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Michael Witzel

Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies, Harvard University

2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138, USA

 

ph. 1- 617-496 2990 (also messages)

home page: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/mwpage.htm

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In the article below, it is stated -

 

""Digs" at the writings of persons such as Rajaram thus have their

well-justified reasons. Especially so, as he has recently been

appointed by the Minister of HRD as a member of the ICHR, just after

I sent in my last piece. Such appointments spell the end of

scientific history writing and open the door to Raamraaj fantasies

galore. However, since I am neither an Indian citizen nor a

professional historian, I refrain from further comment. "

 

The fact is that several days before the publication of Professor

Witzel's article in the Hindu, Mr. Rajaran had declined to accept the

appointment.

This was reported in some newspapers, although I learnt of it via an

email message forwarded to me.

 

Hence (or even otherwise), the use of epithets like 'politicians' for

Rajaram or anyone else, is inappropriate. In fact, the article was

replete with personal attacks and it does no credit to anyone to make

an attempt now to defend it.

 

As for the two articles of Meadow cited by him - I have read one

(1995) of them, and it does not seem to offer any justification for

the 'eroded layer' theory, although I will check it once again. I

will also check the other article and see what it says and what proof

it offers.

 

Sincerely,

 

Vishal

 

INDOLOGY, Michael Witzel <witzel@f...> wrote:

> http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/Har-veda.htm