The Indo-Aryan Controversy : Evidence and Inference in Indian History

ISBN-13: 9780700714636 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 522 str.

Edwin F. Bryant; Laurie L. Patton

Opis

The major questions considered in this book are these: Are the Indo-Aryans outsiders or insiders? Did they migrate into India from Central Asia, and if not, where did they originate? Even more crucially, what is at stake in these accounts of ancient history? What issues of South Asian identity are involved? Can those of Indo-Aryan descent claim indigenous status? To what extent are the accounts of colonial historians valid? What is the role and authority of Indian scholarship in the post-colonial period? The scope and purpose of this volume is not to resolve this debate, but to survey the field and to include major figures from differing points of view, from archaeology and philosophy as well as political and intellectual history.

Recenzje

'In her excellent introduction, coeditor Laurie Patton provides...a summary of the key issues involved in the debate...This monograph is an important step toward reappraising this field of enquiry and generating, as Patton suggests in her introduction, the sort of questions that could lead to rethinking the available evidence and structuring new field research.' - Traditional Yoga Studies

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Archaeology  1. Culture Change During the Late Harappan Period at Harappa: New Insights on Vedic Aryan Issues  2. Aryan Invasion of India: Perpetuation of a Myth  3. South Asian Archaeology and the Myth of Indo-Aryan Invasions  Part 2: Archaeology and Linguistics  4. The Cultural Counterparts to Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic and Proto-Aryan: matching the Dispersal and Contact Patterns in the Linguistic and Archaeological Record  5. Archaeology and Language: The Case of the Bronze Age Indo-Iranians  Part 3: Philology and Linguistics  6. The Date of the Rigveda and the Aryan Migration (Fresh Linguistic Evidence)  7. Linguistic Aspects of the Aryan Non-Invasion Theory  8. Philology and the Historical Interpretation of the Vedic Texts  9. Vedic Astronomy and Early Indian Chronology  10. The Textual Evidence: The Rigveda as a Source of Indo-European History  11. Indocentrism: Autochthonous Visions of Ancient India  Part 4: Historiography  12. Aryan Origins: Arguments from 19th Century Maharashtra  13. Aryan Past and Post-Colonial Present: The Polemics and Politics of Indigenous Aryanism.  Concluding Remarks

O autorze

Edwin F. Bryant graduated from Columbia University in 1997, where he taught Sanskrit and Hindi. He was the lecturer in Hinduism at Harvard University for three years, and is presently assistant professor in Hinduism at Rutgers University, New Jersey. His publications include books on The Indo-Aryan Invasion Debate and Hinduism.
Laurie L. Patton is Professor of Early Indian Religions at Emory University and Winship Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities. She is the author of two books and twenty five articles on early Indian myth and poetry, as well as a book of poetry and a translation of the Bhagavad Gita.