The Aryan Homeland Debate in India
The Aryan Homeland Debate in India
This chapter outlines what historical linguistics tells us about the Indo-European homeland and about the Indo-Iranian language(s) during the period 5000 to 2000 BC. It shows how the Hindutva political movement has pursued its “politics of exclusion and of upper-caste dominance” by invoking a primordial past free of later alien intruders. This chapter also reviews considerable linguistic and archaeological data that seriously question the politically motivated mythologized vision of ancient India.
Keywords: Indo-European homeland, Indo-Iranian languages, Hindutva political movement, exclusion, upper-caste dominance, ancient India
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