From: "Vrn Davan" <vaidika1008@hotmail.com>
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Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 21:09:44 +0000
Subject: [world-vedic] Ein Fremdling im Rgveda (JIES vol. 31.1-2, 2003)

From: Vishal Agarwal <vishalagarwal@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: manthan@voi.org (Manthan)
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Subject: [manthan] Ein Fremdling im Rgveda (JIES vol. 31.1-2, 2003)
Date: 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.

My critique is available at

1. In HTML format
http://vishalagarwal.bharatvani.org/JIES2003-MW.html

2. MS Word File
http://vishalagarwal.bharatvani.org/ReplytoWitzelJIES.doc

Sincerely,
Vishal Agarwal


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