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Author : George Erdosy
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110816433
Author : Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher : Harvard University Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015047470029
Author : Madhav M. Deshpande,Peter Edwin Hook,Peter E. Hook
Publisher : U OF M CENTER FOR SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780891480143
The history and mechanisms of the convergence of ancient Aryan and non-Aryan cultures has been a subject of continuing fascination in many fields of Indology. The contributions to Aryan and Non-Aryan in India are the fruit of a conference on that topic held in December 1976 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, under the auspices of the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies. The express object of the conference was to examine the latest findings from a variety of disciplines as they relate to the formation and integration of a unified Indian culture from many disparate cultural and ethnic elements.
Author : Johannes Bronkhorst,Madhav M. Deshpande
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-07
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 8173049181
Proceedings of the International Seminar on Aryan and Non-Aryan in South Asia, held at University of Michigan during 25-27 October 1996.
Author : Ramachandra Ghosha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0649472950
Author : Edwin Bryant
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780195169478
This work studies how Indian scholars have rejected the idea of an external origin of the Indo-Aryans, by questioning the logic assumptions and methods upon which the theory is based.
Author : Asko Parpola
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190226930
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 : Jonathan M. Kenoyer,Kimberley Burton Heuston
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195222432
Learn about the history and civilizations from ancient South Asia through the study of a variety of archaeological discoveries.
Author : Edwin Bryant,Laurie Patton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135791018
For the first time in a single volume, this book presents the various arguments in the Indo-Aryan controversy. It also provides a template for the basic issues addressing four major areas: archaeological research, linguistic issues, the interpretation of Vedic texts in their historical contexts, and ideological roots. The volume ends with a plea for a return to civility in the debates which have become increasingly, and unproductively, politicized, and suggests a program of research and inquiry upon which scholars from all sides of the debate might embark.
Author : Koenraad Elst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015050325557
This book on the developing arguments concerning the Aryan Invasion Theory consists of adapted versions of papers the author has read:the first at the World Association of Vedic Studies (WAVES)conference on the Indus-Saraswati civilization in Atlanta 1996,the third at the 1996 Annual South Asia conference in Madison,Wisconsin and in a lecture at the Linguistics Department in Madison;the fifth contains material used in author?s paper read at the second WAVES conference in Los Angeles 1998;the second and fourth were read at lectures for the Belgo-Indian Association,Brussels,and at the Etnografisch Museum,Antewerp.
Author : Ram Sharan Sharma
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 8125006311
Who were the Aryans? Where did they come from? Did they always live in India? The Aryan problem has been attracting fresh attention in academic, social and political arenas. This book identifies the main traits of Aryan culture and follows the spread of their cultural markers. Using the latest archaeological evidence and the earliest known Indo-European inscriptions on the social and economic features of Aryan society, the distinguished historian, R. S. Sharma, throws fresh light on the current debate on whether or not the Aryans were the indigenous inhabitants of India. This book is essential reading for those interested in the history of India and its culture.
Author : Asko Parpola
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190226916
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 : Robin Coningham,Ruth Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521846974
This book synthesises the archaeology of South Asia from the Neolithic period (c.6500 BCE) to the third century BCE.
Author : Romila Thapar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015070138030
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1731
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:248674009