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The July issue of _Scientific American_ has a feature article on the Indus

Valley civilization. I haven't had a chance to read it yet.

 

 

Brian

 

 

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> The July issue of _Scientific American_ has a feature article

>on the Indus Valley civilization. I haven't had a chance to

>read it yet.

>

 

J. M. Kenoyer, archaeologist and author of Ancient cities of the

Indus Valley civilization (OUP; American Institute of Pakistan

Studies, 1998) wrote this article,'Uncovering the Keys to the

Lost Indus Cities," Scientific American, July 2003, p.66-76.

 

p. 75: "The speed of change varied in different areas, but

by 1300 to 1000 B.C.E. a new social order characterized by a

distinctive ideology and language began to emerge in the northern

Indus Valley and the Ganges River region to the east."

 

This is, possibly, Rgvedic Aryan settlements' immigration.

Earlier the PaNis and Daasas. In Dravidian languages,

paNi means "work, job" & so, were the paNi folks brought

(from BMAC) initially as laborers with some skills not

available in the Indus culture?

 

Smt. Parvathi Menon, in The Frontline (The Hindu group

of publications from Chennai) writes about a recent Indus

era book by Irfan Habib.

http://www.flonnet.com/fl2013/stories/20030704000407600.htm

 

"Further, the modern division into two hostile countries

of the region across which the Indus civilisation once lay

has undoubtedly been a major impediment in the study of this

subcontinental legacy. We have also seen recent attempts by

Hindutva writers to re-interpret the evidence from the Indus

Civilisation. At the level of serious scholarship,

these efforts have been firmly rejected. Nevertheless, theories

which posit a Vedic origin for the Indus civilisation, on the

basis of a flaky interpretation of archaeological evidence

and a `decipherment'of the script, have been popularised by a

credulous media."

 

 

 

N. Ganesan

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INDOLOGY, "naga_ganesan" <naga_ganesan@h...> wrote:

>

> >

> > The July issue of _Scientific American_ has a feature article

> >on the Indus Valley civilization. I haven't had a chance to

> >read it yet.

> >

>

> J. M. Kenoyer, archaeologist and author of Ancient cities of the

> Indus Valley civilization (OUP; American Institute of Pakistan

> Studies, 1998) wrote this article,'Uncovering the Keys to the

> Lost Indus Cities," Scientific American, July 2003, p.66-76.

>

> p. 75: "The speed of change varied in different areas, but

> by 1300 to 1000 B.C.E. a new social order characterized by a

> distinctive ideology and language began to emerge in the northern

> Indus Valley and the Ganges River region to the east."

>

> This is, possibly, Rgvedic Aryan settlements' immigration.

> Earlier the PaNis and Daasas. In Dravidian languages,

> paNi means "work, job" & so, were the paNi folks brought

> (from BMAC) initially as laborers with some skills not

> available in the Indus culture?

 

Since Kenoyer's paragraph is :

 

"The speed of change varied in different areas, but

by 1300 to 1000 B.C.E. a new social order characterized by a

distinctive ideology and language began to emerge in the northern

Indus Valley and the Ganges River region to the east. According

to ancient Indian literary records such as the Vedas and the

Mahabharata and Ramayana epics, this area was populated

by numerous competing polities practicing Vedic religion

and speaking Indo-Aryan languages such as Sanskrit and

its various dialects. Our information is hampered by the

fact that most of the Indus settlements dating to this period

have either been destroyed by later erosion or brick robbing

or are covered with continuous inhabitation, which makes

excavation impossible."