Ein Fremdling im Rgveda (JIES vol. 31.1-2, 2003)

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>Vishal Agarwal <vishalagarwal

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>[manthan] Ein Fremdling im Rgveda (JIES vol. 31.1-2, 2003)

>Tue, 5 Aug 2003 10:57:14 -0700 (PDT)

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>Recently, N. Kazanas published a sixty page article

>titled `Indigenous Indo-Aryans and the Rigveda' in The Journal of

>Indo-European Studies (JIES), vol. 30, Numbers 3&4 (2002), pages 275-

>334. The article argues that the speakers of Indo-Aryan (IA)

>languages did not enter the Indian subcontinent around 1500 BC, as

>the conventional Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT) and its euphemistic

>versions hold. Kazanas further argued that the Rgveda, the oldest IA

>and Indian text, was composed mainly in the 4th millennium BC, and

>therefore, these peoples may have arrived into the Indian

>subcontinent around or before 4500 BC, not later. The article

>provoked nine comments, of which eight were quite short and were

>published in the same issue of the journal. The ninth comment, by

>Professor M. Witzel of the Harvard University, was published in the

>next issue (JIES vol. 31, No. 1-2 (2003), pages 107-185.

>

>In the latter issue of JIES, Kazanas wrote a 54 page `Final Reply'

>(JIES, vol. 31, No.1-2: pp. 187-240, 2003) to all his nine reviewers.

>He has responded to most of Witzel's important academic objections.

>My own critique here is meant to supplement Kazanas' response to

>Witzel. I will not repeat what Kazanas has already included in his

>final reply.

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>My critique is available at

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>1. In HTML format

>http://vishalagarwal.bharatvani.org/JIES2003-MW.html

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>2. MS Word File

>http://vishalagarwal.bharatvani.org/ReplytoWitzelJIES.doc

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>Sincerely,

>Vishal Agarwal

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