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Author : Romila Thapar
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book India: Historical Beginnings and the Concept of the Aryan written by Romila Thapar and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Romila Thapar & Others
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ISBN 13 : 9788123747781
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book India: Historical Beginnings & The Concept Of The Aryan written by Romila Thapar & Others and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas R. Trautmann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520917928
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)
Download or read book Aryans and British India written by Thomas R. Trautmann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Aryan," a word that today evokes images of racial hatred and atrocity, was first used by Europeans to suggest bonds of kinship, as Thomas Trautmann shows in his far-reaching history of British Orientalism and the ethnology of India. When the historical relationship uniting Sanskrit with the languages of Europe was discovered, it seemed clear that Indians and Britons belonged to the same family. Thus the Indo-European or Aryan idea, based on the principle of linguistic kinship, dominated British ethnological inquiry. In the nineteenth century, however, an emergent biological "race science" attacked the authority of the Orientalists. The spectacle of a dark-skinned people who were evidently civilized challenged Victorian ideas, and race science responded to the enigma of India by redefining the Aryan concept in narrowly "white" racial terms. By the end of the nineteenth century, race science and Orientalism reached a deep and lasting consensus in regard to India, which Trautmann calls "the racial theory of Indian civilization," and which he undermines with his powerful analysis of colonial ethnology in India. His work of reassessing British Orientalism and the Aryan idea will be of great interest to historians, anthropologists, and cultural critics.
Author : Thomas R. Trautmann
Publisher : OUP India
ISBN 13 : 9780195692006
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Aryan Debate written by Thomas R. Trautmann and published by OUP India. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the prestigious Debate series, this book brings together aa selection of pioneering essays. The introduction spells out the extremely topical Aryan debate. The central question behind this selection is, did the Sanskrit-speaking Aryans enter India from the Northwest in 1500 BC, or were they indigenous to India and identical with the people who inhabited the Indus Valley between 2800 and 1500 BC.
Author : Romila Thapar
Publisher : Rupa Publications
ISBN 13 : 9789388292382
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)
Download or read book Which of Us are Aryans? written by Romila Thapar and published by Rupa Publications. This book was released on 2019 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of which of us is Aryan is one of the most contentious in India today. In this eye-opening book, scholars and experts critically examine the Aryan issue by analysing history, genetics, early Vedic scriptures, archaeology and linguistics to test and debunk various hypotheses, myths, facts and theories that are currently in vogue.
Author : Edwin Bryant
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199881332
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture written by Edwin Bryant and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western scholars have argued that Indian civilization was the joint product of an invading Indo-European people--the "Indo-Aryans"--and indigenous non-Indo European peoples. Although Indian scholars reject this European reconstruction of their country's history, Western scholarship gives little heed to their argument. In this book, Edwin Bryant explores the nature and origins of this fascinating debate.
Author : Asko Parpola
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190226935
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Roots of Hinduism written by Asko Parpola and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hinduism has two major roots. The more familiar is the religion brought to South Asia in the second millennium BCE by speakers of Aryan or Indo-Iranian languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family. Another, more enigmatic, root is the Indus civilization of the third millennium BCE, which left behind exquisitely carved seals and thousands of short inscriptions in a long-forgotten pictographic script. Discovered in the valley of the Indus River in the early 1920s, the Indus civilization had a population estimated at one million people, in more than 1000 settlements, several of which were cities of some 50,000 inhabitants. With an area of nearly a million square kilometers, the Indus civilization was more extensive than the contemporaneous urban cultures of Mesopotamia and Egypt. Yet, after almost a century of excavation and research the Indus civilization remains little understood. How might we decipher the Indus inscriptions? What language did the Indus people speak? What deities did they worship? Asko Parpola has spent fifty years researching the roots of Hinduism to answer these fundamental questions, which have been debated with increasing animosity since the rise of Hindu nationalist politics in the 1980s. In this pioneering book, he traces the archaeological route of the Indo-Iranian languages from the Aryan homeland north of the Black Sea to Central, West, and South Asia. His new ideas on the formation of the Vedic literature and rites and the great Hindu epics hinge on the profound impact that the invention of the horse-drawn chariot had on Indo-Aryan religion. Parpola's comprehensive assessment of the Indus language and religion is based on all available textual, linguistic and archaeological evidence, including West Asian sources and the Indus script. The results affirm cultural and religious continuity to the present day and, among many other things, shed new light on the prehistory of the key Hindu goddess Durga and her Tantric cult.
Author : Purushottam Lal Bhargava
Publisher : Aminabad : Upper India Publishing House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)
Download or read book India in the Vedic Age written by Purushottam Lal Bhargava and published by Aminabad : Upper India Publishing House. This book was released on 1971 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Problem of Aryan Origins from an Indian Point of View written by Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes up ?from an Indian Point of View? a cluster of important historical questions about India?s most ancient past and formulates fresh answers to them in great detail with the temper of a scrupulous scholar.This edition, extensively enlarged with five supplements,demonstrates for the period after 1980 at still greater length ? with the same tools of widespread scholarship the validity of the first edition?s thesis.
Author : Navaratna Srinivasa Rajaram
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Vedic Aryans and the Origins of Civilization written by Navaratna Srinivasa Rajaram and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
